Shift Manager (Fri-Sun Nights) in Blackburn

Would you like to advance your career and work in a dynamic environment? Join a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges. Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

We are seeking a Production Shift Manager with proven paper converting knowledge and experience to join our team manufacturing hygiene paper products. This is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing production operations during your shift, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency targets are consistently met.

As a Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the converting floor during your assigned shift. You will lead a team of production employees, ensuring targets are met while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient workplace is maintained at all times.
• Achieve the required company quality standards ensuring both internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Ensure that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved.
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications.
• Communicate with the teams by utilising visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement.
• Undertake performance management responsibility for team members, conducting appraisals and giving direction to aid good performance.
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to.
• Ensure that non-conformance is challenged and countermeasures are agreed and implemented.
• Lead and motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced.
• Strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis.
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians.
• Ensure housekeeping is kept to a high standard.

People Management:

• Manage manpower resource effectively maximising key skills in the right areas.
• Drive company Absence Control Procedures to ensure maximum attendance levels.
• Manage time and attendance within Company procedures.
• Motivate and coach the team to operational success.
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance.
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviours expected of them.
• Ensure KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of, and reporting.
• Provide product expertise within the team, and respond to operator queries.
• Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in the paper converting industry (essential).
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Knowledge of converting machinery and processes.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Shift Pattern: Friday – Sunday Night Shift (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM)