Shift Leader - Packing

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Packing Shift Manager to join us in our Liverpool plant!

In this dynamic role, you’ll lead a high-performing team to deliver excellence across safety, quality, cost, and delivery. You’ll drive continuous improvement, champion food safety and compliance, and play a key role in shaping team development and engagement. This is a brilliant chance to make a real impact in a fast-paced environment while growing your leadership and operational expertise.

Key accountabilities, deliverables & KPIs, impact on business results

Safety

• Animation of safety culture across the team
• Delivery of safety improvement plans for the area
• Involvement in WISE (working in safe environment) cultural and compliance elements
• Delivery of site target of ‘0’ accidents through ownership of audits, tags, near missed, incident reporting

Quality

• Animation of the quality and food safety culture across the team
• Ensure products meet the strict quality parameters on an operational basis and work with the teams to analyse production failures to develop long term plans to minimise product variability and specification inconsistency.
• Drive quality and food safety topics through engagement with specialists
• Managing all food safety activities within department including accountability for process release.
• Cost
• Work closely with the team to manage resource and track any costs related to overtime, agency staff, FTE, or FTC employees
• Support the BU team with the management of the consumables, services, and systems areas of the budget

Delivery

• Monitor, track, and performance of the areas production delivery through individual KPI management
• Closely working with scheduling and planning to create and deliver the most efficient production plan
• Delivery of planned and autonomous maintenance through the framework in place
• Use of data to deliver improvements through loss programs and focus area programs

Motivation

• Creation and delivery of robust compliance, competency and developmental training and assessment plans for the team, using skills matrices as the backbone to all learning
• Management of teams, and own, learning hours through the QM system
• Engagement with L&D to deliver the sites key focus on compliance, e-learn and function learning activities
• Creation of teams PDR objectives and IDPs through the 1-2-1 system, with support through coaching and mentoring
• Ownership and control of area waste and management of improvements
• Delivery of area energy usage and improvement plan
• Area standards management & build close relationship with Performance Lead to support with PSGs and FI groups

Key Enablers

• Creation, delivery, and evolution of the SIM (single interval management) structure within the manufacturing area(s)
• Implementation of the digital roadmap within the teams/areas, utilising the many platforms available such as Power Bi, eSIM, Zaptic, etc
• Use of the Business Unit Leadership Team to support in areas of expertise, such as Hygiene, Performance and Engineering
• Work on solutions relating to the capacity constraints within to improve overall factory delivery
• Work on productivity solutions within the BU to drive the cost strategy evolution against the backdrop of increased competition in the market
• Manage resources within the complex environment of everchanging process, compliance requirements and volume demand

Stakeholders

• Shift Leaders & Business Unit teams – Team management, cross functionally with packing
• HR – Agency organisation, people topics, T&A, development
• Performance & Digital Team – development of digital tools & support, implementation in areas
• Finance – Project management, cost analysis, productivity
• Supply chain – Warehouse as a customer and supplier, scheduling and planning for weekly plan and horizon planning, capacity for volume evolution and forecasting
• Quality – Food safety, plant quality, hygiene, customer complaints, governance
• Engineering – Facilities site management, project support, maintenance strategy
• Strong leadership mindset with coaching beliefs
• Digital platform and system outlook
• Highly organised with ability to meet regular, tight deadlines
• Disciplined approach to completing routine daily and weekly activities
• Able to effectively influence stakeholders
• Comfortable working autonomously or within a team to deliver objectives
• Basic SAP overview
• Understanding of an MES style system and process
• Excel, Word, PowerPoint knowledge

This role will operate over a 24/7 shift pattern. In return you will receive a competitive salary + bonus + shift allowance.You will also be eligible for ouraward-winning flexible rewards and benefits package and excellent pension provision. You’ll also get the support and guidance to personally develop and shape your career whilst contributing to the performance of the business.

About you

Lead a production team to deliver in all areas of the sites and departments objectives, in line with our S, Q, C, D, M, E targets. Be part of a cross functional leadership team that will build a BU strategy and deliver through a defined and aligned roadmap.

Deliver results by engaging with and developing a core team and utilising and calling upon the cross functional expertise within the Business Unit and the rest of the companies support functions.

Become an integral part of a newly developed business unit structure, whilst being able to imprint upon the function your own personal stamp of core beliefs, experience, and expertise in operations

Success will be measured through the delivery of key KPIs and site targets through packing excellence, implementation of key programs and projects and the transformation of the core team into a high performing unit

About Danone

Danone is embarking on an exciting global transformation to its strategy and organisational set up and we want you to be part of that journey! The importance of eating and drinking healthy nutritional products is stronger than ever and the chance to adapt and evolve through digital transformation is upon us. We want to embrace these opportunities to build a more agile, integrated and synchronised organisation powered by our people.

We are a leading food and drink company with a fast-growing health-focused portfolio. With over 100 years of expertise, we care about every product we make, and we care equally about how we make them. We operate at 5 production sites as well as offices in the UK & Ireland- led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success. We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.

At heart is conviction that peoples’ health, and the health of the planet, are intrinsically connected. We talk about One Planet. One Health; that is our frame of action. To deliver this vision, we put our focus on delivering health through food and drinks to as many people as possible.

Every minute on any given day, 3,600 people are eating or drinking on our products. Ranging from household favourites to international icons, our consumer and medical nutrition brands hold market leading positions in most of the categories in which we operate.

Our brands include; Volvic, Evian, Harrogate, Activia, Alpro, Actimel, Nutricia, Aptamil and Cow & Gate.

We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance and product vouchers. You will also be entitled to opt into a range of flexible benefits which you can pick to suit your lifestyle. These include discounted gym membership, childcare vouchers, dental cover, optical insurance, travel insurance, holiday buy & sell and much more!

Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people. This is reflected in our employee offer; for example, our health & wellbeing programme, sponsored volunteering opportunities and in how individuals are enabled to drive their own development. Ensuring an inclusive working culture that is accessible to all is important to us; we therefore support flexible ways of working wherever possible. Please let us know in your application how you would like to explore flexible working for this position.

Look at the website www.danone.com to learn more about our 4 promises that help every Danoner carry out our vision in their own unique way

Closing date for this role will be 1st August 2025

Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition.

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