Production Section Manager - Nights (4 on 4 off) in England

We are now looking for someone to join a busy Production team as Section Manager within the night team, working 19.00 – 07.00. You will be working a “4 on, 4 off” pattern, so you will work for four consecutive nights and then get four nights off in a row!

This role sits within our Production team, in a factory environment, and will ensure production targets are met to the required quality standards whilst delivering in the key performance areas of H&S, GMP, cost, material usage, productivity, efficiency and waste levels.

The Section Manager will:

• Actively manage and drive H&S performance within section, ensuring your team members are trained and compliant to company health and safety procedures.
• Identify risks and opportunities for improving safety in Production through prompt and comprehensive accident and near-misses reports to the Shift & HS&E Manager.
• Manage Hygiene and CAYG standards within the operation, ensuring team members are adequately trained and compliant to the relevant level and GMP targets met.
• Be visit & audit ready within 20 minutes notice.
• Manage quality standards in section, liaising with technical department over quality issues.
• Escalate effectively through your line Manager commercially sensitive issues.
• Create a culture of compliance to policies and processes within your team.
• Resolve non-conformances immediately and address serious and ongoing issues to maintain standards.
• Manage, plan and utilise resource levels with SM within set budgets to deliver schedules.
• Succession plan resources longer term to manage skills, staff turnover, seasonal and promotional peaks in demand.
• Identify opportunities to reduce labour spend where possible without compromising schedule adherence, quality, safety or waste.
• Liaise with Shift Manager over shift labour budgets.
• When required, be able to reallocate resource to meet scheduled plans and liaise with planning when applicable.
• Communicate effectively with your colleagues to ensure smooth and efficient production flow, minimising bottlenecks and down time.
• Monitor and control wastage in line with target levels, ensuring all waste is accounted for.
• Identify opportunities to reduce waste and feed these back to your SM and or the Projects and Improvements lead.
• Build a motivated, engaged and supportive ethos of responsibility within the entire team.
• Drive the Team to success by understanding and delivering KPI targets.
• Using current and future systems, be able to measure and monitor team performance, taking timely action to rectify under-performance.
• Ensure all training (including refresher), relevant paperwork and matrices are accurately up to date.
• Develop and implement short to medium term training plans with line manager, liaising with planning to ensure time and resource is made available.
• Manage refresher training process.
• Ensure new and inexperienced members of the team are appropriately supervised.
• Encourage innovation, potential cost saving and continuous improvement through a positive change culture.
• Support & help your team to accept change, ensuring thorough communication and follow up post implementation to ensure change sticks.
• Deliver daily briefs to reflect SHQQC to your section, ensuring all members understand targets, issues and the impact of their role.
• Listen to ideas and issues raised by team, dealing with or escalating issues as appropriate.

To be considered for this role you must have:

• Experience of team management
• Experience of working in a factory environment
• Experience of working in food production

It would be great if you also had the following – but it isn’t a deal breaker!

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office