Job Overview:
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.
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
- Ensuring 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 the 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 keys 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 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:
Thursday – Sunday Night Shift (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM) - 44 Hours per week
