Title: Production Shift Leader

We're recruiting a Production Shift Leader at Muller Severnside to join the flavoured milk department, to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people. The ideal candidate will have experience within Food Production or have a FMCG background and will lead the team to continued success. Responsibilities as Production Shift Lead will include but not be limited to:

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives.
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues.
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence , coaching team on use of the principles and tools.
Muller Responsibilities:
• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation .
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills.
• "go, look, see" issues by visiting the workstation when called upon .
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Uses PDCA techniques to follow problems through to "100 year fix" in real time.
• Encourages others to seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects .
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these.
• Looks and encourages others to find "waste" opportunities in everything that we do.
  
  Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer's Top 100 list of Britain's Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:
Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain's private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country. Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK's leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.


• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Pension scheme
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• Generous annual leave - 33 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan
• Life assurance
• Muller rewards platform saving you money across numerous retailers
• Long term career with an established business
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Supportive team and friendly environment