Team Manager Nightshift in Carlisle

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, Night Shift 10pm - 6am. Based on site in Carlisle, Cumbria.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Team Leadership and Development: Direct, challenge, motivate, lead, and coach team members. Conduct regular monitoring, feedback, and development initiatives to maintain skills and competencies.
• Operational Efficiency: Ensure production meets plan targets and deploy the labour plan. Manage Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), accuracy, waste recording, downtime, packet weights, labour numbers, and efficiency.
• System Utilization: Utilize and maintain systems like Autostore, Workday, SAP, SFOL, Absence Manager to gather and produce management information.
• Communication and Customer Service: Ensure effective communication between operations, management, support teams, and engineering. Promote high levels of customer service and identify ways to improve customer satisfaction.
• Quality and Compliance: Follow Quality Management Systems and procedures. Maintain hygiene audit standards and ensure documentation is completed to the required standard. Identify and resolve problems in staff, production, and equipment areas.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Validated leadership skills, leading by example, demonstrating high standards of behaviour, honesty and integrity.
• Confident, effective and challenging communicator with a track record in leading teams to drive up standards and improve efficiency.
• Management experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience working within a Lean Environment.
• Ability to delegate, empower, influence and motivate people to achieve goals.
• Accountable mentality.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working across bakery and snack processing.
• Positive approach to self-development and achieving the skills required to fulfil the role.
• Ability to adapt and respond to change for self and others.
• Proficiency in coaching and feedback to achieve excellence.

Interview Process

• 1st stage interview – 45 minutes competency‑based interview focused on company values and experiences.
• 2nd stage interview – 60 minutes technical interview (skill set, case study, or presentation). Psychometric and aptitude tests may be required.

Benefits

• Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
• Private medical insurance.
• Stakeholder pension scheme.
• Life assurance cover upon enrolment.
• Holiday enhancement scheme.
• 1 volunteering day per year.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Discount and cashback scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Financial wellbeing support.
• Training and development opportunities.

Values

• Purpose‑led – Energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite.
• Agile – Ever evolving, never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers.
• Positive – Highly motivated, optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better.
• Resilient – Persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward.
• Collaborative – Gain strength from operating as one pladis.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

pladis is an equal opportunities employer. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law. We will provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.