At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team in producing hygiene paper products while ensuring safety and quality.
- Company: Join a family-owned company with a commitment to respect and sustainability.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, dynamic work environment, and opportunities for career advancement.
- Other info: Work Thursday to Sunday nights, with a focus on high performance and teamwork.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a key leadership role within a fast-paced industry.
- Qualifications: Experience in paper converting and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
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: Thursday – Sunday Night Shift (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM) - 44 Hours per week.
Shift Manager (Thurs-Sun Nights) in Blackburn employer: WEPA
WEPA in Wales is an excellent employer that prioritises the well-being and development of its employees. With a strong focus on health and safety, competitive salaries, and a range of benefits including a pension scheme and employee perks, WEPA fosters a supportive work culture that encourages continuous improvement and personal growth. Join us to be part of a team that values your contributions and invests in your future.
