Job Title: Shift Manager 

Location: Greater Manchester

Salary: c£45k plus benefits 

Shift: 12-hour shifts – days and nights

A well-respected, fast-growing food manufacturer with a real emphasis on people development and a growth mentality, are now looking to recruit an ambitious Shift Manager to join their talented management team.

The Candidate: 

• You need to have experience as a Manufacturing or Production Manager from a Food Manufacturing or FMCG environment, managing teams in a complex factory.
• You’ll have a strong track record of tangible achievements and be driven to take ownership of the role and contribute to the success of the business.
• You will have knowledge of CI tools and techniques and how to apply these to drive improvements within your teams.
• Forward thinking attitude, enthusiastic and driven. You’ll have a passion for what you do and always deliver to the very highest standards. 

The Role: 

• Reporting into the Operations Manager, you will be responsible for optimising resources and managing performance, safety, quality and costs.
• You will be delivering operational plans and setting day to day objectives including delivery of the site business plan.
• As a key member of the Site Management team, you will play a pivotal role in the daily operations, leading inspiring a team to achieve targets whilst maintaining highest standards of quality and food safety.
• As Shift Manufacturing Manager you will be the driving force behind the shift, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• This is an opportunity to play a great role with an innovative business who are going from strength to strength.
• Shift pattern is 4 on 4 off days an nights.

Other Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring a safe, clean and good working environment utilising 5S principles
• Assisting the team to achieve their own objectives including training through coaching, hands on support and organisation of resources
• Responsibility for resource utilisation and the management of all 13 direct reports including investigations and performance management
• Ensuring a cost efficient and stable production process with emphasis on KPI’s.
• Contributing to the development of current processes and ways of working
• Challenging processes and practices identifying opportunities for Continuous Improvement

If you're interested in this opportunity, please submit your CV via the link provided quoting reference CH/TNT/585

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