Shift Leader - North West

Job Title: Shift Leader

Location: North Wales, Wirral, Merseyside

Salary: £39,000

The Company:

My client is a market leading food manufacturer that has seen impressive growth in its sector over the last few years. An opportunity now exists for a Team Leader to play a key part in driving change.

The Candidate:

We’re looking for a graduate calibre individual who can drive change, who thrives on responsibility and who wants to make a real difference.

You’ll have a significant amount of high-speed production management experience in FMCG or food manufacturing along with a strong track record of performance improvement on both a personal and organisational level.

You’ll be a role model for your team, always delivering the very highest standards and working with openness, honesty and integrity. Your well-developed influencing skills will make you successful in this key role.

The Role:

• Communicate and consistently implement Company policies (H&S, Housekeeping etc)
• Liaise with engineering to ensure plant is operating to optimal standard and ensure action is taken as appropriate
• Accountable for KPI’s on an hourly/daily basis.
• Use and promote CI techniques to deliver agreed KPI’s
• Manage the performance and behaviour of all team members in line with current procedures.
• Conduct investigations in a timely manner (H&S, food safety, conduct issues)
• Labour management – recording of holidays etc.
• Control breaks to maximise throughput & hygiene.

• Ensure plant, labour and materials are available to meet the daily production plan
• Accurately record hourly waste, efficiency and yield by line and action any non-conformances
• Ensure accurate recording of all downtime on OPE sheet and where required generate five why analysis and ensure appropriate action is taken
• Input OPE information onto toolkit database at end of shift & verify
• Propose and implement corrective actions to link in with Company Quality team activities and all audit requirements
• Train, coach and develop all staff as required and maintain skills matrix process

To apply, please send a copy of your CV quoting ref LO/15730 to lois.osborne@silven.co.uk or for a confidential discussion, please call me on 0161 832 7463.