Manufacturing Shift Manager (Weekends) in Cirencester

Job Description

Posted Friday 17 July 2026 at 00:00

Corin Group is a global orthopaedics innovation business, which is head quartered in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Across 7 units in Love Lane, we manufacture knee and hip implants that are then shipped around the world to provide patients the best possible outcomes!

With over 500 employees, we are focused on precision, quality, and customer demand to ensure that we are producing a high quality product at all times.

Corin is launching an exciting new service and we’re looking for dedicated individuals to join our growing team.

If you’re looking for a role that offers a fantastic work-life balance, this could be the perfect opportunity.

You'll work weekend shifts only – Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 5:30am – 6:30pm – giving you Monday to Thursday completely free every week!

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and lead a team supporting the manufacturing operations?

Due to the growth, we are seeing within manufacturing, we are now looking a Manufacturing Shift Manager to join the leadership team.

You will drive efficiency, safety, and quality on the production floor, as well as supporting the team with day-to-day management activities (including resource planning, training and development and performance management).

To set you up for success, you'll receive comprehensive training during the week, tailored to your experience and learning pace.

Training will be on Mondays to Fridays - we can be flexible to fit around you, and offer an initial day shift, rotating earlies and lates shifts, just earlies or lates or nights.

You'll benefit from a salary of £40,000.00 plus shift allowance starting from 25%, rewarding you from day one.

• Permanent Shift Pattern (after training complete)
• Friday, Saturday and Sunday 5:30am - 6:30pm (37.5 hours per week)
• Earlies - 5.30am - 2:00pm Monday to Thursday, 5:30am - 11:00am on Friday
• Lates - 1:45pm - 10:15pm Monday to Thursday, 10:45am - 4:15pm on Friday
• Days - 8:30am - 5:00pm Monday to Thursday, 8:30am - 4:30pm on Friday
• Nights - 10:00pm - 5:45am Monday to Thursday, 4:00pm - 8:50pm on Friday

As a Manufacturing Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of your shift, ensuring production targets are met while maintaining high standards of safety and quality.

Your key responsibility will be to organise daily and weekly shift activities against plan to manufacture orthopaedic implants and instrumentation, in accordance with our design and quality specifications and Company policy and requirements.

You are also responsible for cascading key strategic information and messages to your team and translating team feedback into effective actions to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities (will include, but not limited to)

• Manage team members within your shift to ensure that they are working to company and legislative requirements at all times and promoting a collaborative and positive work environment across the floor.
• Ensure all the team are working in the most effective way to maximise productivity and if there is any uncertainty in team members performance, this should be managed accordingly.
• Organise shift activities and resource to ensure that production targets are met in accordance with specifications and in line with work instructions or documented processes.
• Overall people management activities which includes Providing and organising training that supports improvement activities and development of team members
• Monthly scheduled one on one meetings with all team members to check in on their health, wellbeing, and personal development
• Plan and manage all team members training and development ensuring they are effectively trained by the Senior Manufacturing Machinists and e TMS is completed in a timely manner
• Conduct monthly and quarterly appraisals setting training and development KPI’s
• Take responsibilities for Health & Safety activities across your shift which will include ensuring that all manufacturing equipment is in safe working order and operatives are maintaining a safe work environment
• Oversea the management of all records and documentation ensuring it’s completed with 100% accuracy, compliant and ledigble
• Install accountability and ownership of the production output into your team through a positive approach where you set clear and visible daily, weekly, and monthly targets/goals – recognise your teams and individual achievements.
• Seek to continuously improve methods of operation and efficiency by gaining feedback from your team to promote a continuous improvement environment
• Investigate exceptional issues of non-conformance or trending, repeatable issues to root cause using 8D methodology and report to the Manufacturing Manager
• Work closely with Head of Manufacturing and planning team to ensure we have the right raw materials to manufacture the correct products against plan.
• Ensure there is sufficient skills and resource to support the plan and release and request additional Operatives in line with requirements
• Be involved in relevant investigations to identify and correct root causes of quality related concerns
• Proactively build relationships with other areas of the business to ensure that goals and expectations are achievable and you are working towards the same goal e. g., Engineering, Planning, Quality, HR.
• Hold a handover shift meeting with the Manufacturing Shift Manager on the previous shift and Hold a Shift Start Up (SSU) meeting in order to give daily targets and plans to your team– prepare and elevate any issues

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in a manufacturing environment and ability to understand the processes across the team
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with engineering, quality, planning and supply chain teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to challenges.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage priorities in a fast-paced setting.
• Positive, collaborative, organised and ‘can do’ attitude to work
• Have completed or be working towards a Leadership qualification e. g., ILM 5
• We offer great benefits to our Manufacturing Shift Managers which include;
• Excellent pension – starts at 6%, going up to 9.7% after 18 months.
• Life assurance – Six times your basic salary
• Private medical insurance with BUPA for you and your family
• Free annual eye tests and flu vaccinations
• Employee referral program where you can earn up to £1,000 for successful referrals into other areas of the business
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Corin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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