SHIFT MANAGER
CIRCA £42,000 - £45,000 + EXCELLENT BENEFITS
BEDFORDSHIRE
PERMANENT - FULL TIME
SHIFTS

Reporting to the Site Manager, you will be responsible for leading, developing and managing the shift operations.

The successful Shift Manager will ensure a quality service is achieved, whilst maintaining continuity of supply to the customer, safely, in time and to budget.

The Role:

The role of the Shift Manager will include:

• Using skills & knowledge, providing support to all teams throughout site
• Working alongside other departments to identify training needs for development of team members.
• Organising and facilitating daily department meetings, ensuring effective communications throughout.
• Developing and presenting visual KPI's for team daily - including improvement plans.
• Managing team performance delivery, including improvement plans - ensuring performance targets are achieved.
• Leading and driving a H&S culture, using observation and feedback techniques and executing improvements.
• Ensuring all disciplinaries, return to works, absence meetings are completed.
• Full and effective handovers to next shift, to ensure continuity of communication.
• Ensuring company policies and procedures are complied with and records are maintained.

The Person:

The ideal candidate for the role of Shift Manager should have the following:

Essential

• Experience managing within a fast-paced automotive environment - with a good understanding of manufacturing operations.
• Ability to effectively manage and monitor service level performance using KPIs
• Experience of project management - LEAN and CI
• Resource management experience to enable working within cost models
• Excellent organisation skills, being able to prioritise, meet deadlines, multi-task and re-prioritise work and delegate
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, to build relationships at all levels and motivate a team to complete tasks from start to finish
• An excellent customer service ethic, and an aptitude for problem solving lending itself to resolving customer queries and complaints
• Positive team player and 'Can Do' attitude

Advantageous

• IOSH Managing Safety qualification or higher
• Knowledge of leHealth & Safety reporting procedures
• Experience of devising Risk Assessment Method Statements.
• Knowledge of internal and external audits, in line with ISO 9001, 14001, 45001
• Lean knowledge and understanding

On offer:

• £42,000-£45,000 DOE + Bonus
• Pension
• Life cover
• Health insurance

Interested?

Interviews are taking place over the next couple of weeks - so don't delay. We can't wait to meet you!

To find out more, click 'apply now' and send your CV directly to the recruiter

At Morgan Ryder we can provide you with a full range of employment opportunities from short term and fixed term temporary vacancies to permanent positions.

We recruit for companies that operate in the following industries: Food and Drink Manufacturers, FMCG, Packaging, Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace, Warehousing, Logistics, Waste Management, Petro Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Power & Renewable Energy.