Shift Manager

As the Shift Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that across site the production plan is fully achieved on time and in compliance with standards and legal requirements, meeting safety, quality, hygiene, cost and environment needs in a 24-hour, 7 day a week operation, as well as all people management responsibility. Other key day-to-day activities will be:

• You will have uncompromising drive for Standards and our Key Standard Routine journey ensuring results are delivered consistently and any deviation are actioned using continuous improvement and selective TPM tools, the key operational business processes throughout manufacturing and empowering and inspiring people by supporting the line team and developing their capability.
• Maintain a safe working environment in compliance with local laws, SHE and Quality standards by identifying risks associated to activities within zone and ensure reactive incidents are managed and resolved or escalated. Strive for zero unsafe conditions and behaviours to achieve zero accidents.
• Support Engineering on unplanned stops root cause and resolution.
• Support and execute identified planned tasks. Liaise with support departments and use their resources to make necessary changes.
• Effectively manage the Shift Operational Review and the Autonomous Working Group (AWG).
• Adopt and nurture a working style which actively involves and motivates colleagues, promoting an environment of continuous improvement and excellence.
• Develop organisational capability by supporting and co-ordinating in the transfer and enhancement of skills through coaching others and share current best practice within the team, We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don't delay in submitting your application.
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To be successful in this key role we expect you to have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing environment and have strong service orientation amongst internal stakeholders with lots of proactive initiative and attention to detail. Other key attributes we are looking for are:
• Experience managing, motivating, coaching and coordinating a large shift to deliver results.
• Able to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced production environment, with a high-energy, proactive style.
• Ability to demonstrate coaching techniques.
• Skills to identify root causes of the problems and in setting plans to reduce or eliminate them.
• Experience using SAP or equivalent technology.
• High level of mechanical and technical comprehension would be advantageous.
• Understanding of Safety, Engineering, Quality and Labour regulations.
• TPM or Lean Manufacturing experience is desirable.
  
  Are you an experienced operations professional who is looking to share your skill-set in a role that offers an opportunity for you to shine? Are you keen to make your mark in your next career step? Then this could be the role you're looking for. We now have fantastic opportunities for talented, driven individuals to join our production teams as a Shift Manager, based at our Nestlé Purina factory in Sudbury, Suffolk.
At Nestlé Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too. Our Sudbury factory makes some of the UK's most well-known and much loved brands. We are the Home Bakers and main brands such as Go Cat , Friskies, Pro Plan, Beta, ONE and we are constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. All this happens in a vibrant and historic market town. For a town with a rich history it also has a strong vision for the future with continued investment planned to ensure Sudbury remains a great place to work, live and visit. Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity. This is particularly critical as we continue our journey towards being a LEAN Enterprise. This is the biggest change in the way we work that Nestlé have ever seen. It's worldwide. It is exciting. You could play a key part in it.

Salary circa £50,000 (depending on experience) plus potential 8% bonus, private medical insurance, and other fantastic benefits., What can we offer in return? Great benefits you'd expect from a business the size of Nestlé - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.