Chilled Warehouse Shift Lead

M ller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo M ller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, M ller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.M ller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer's Top 100 list of Britain's Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. M ller UK & Ireland includes:
M ller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain's private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.
M ller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK's leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more M ller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like M ller Corner, M llerlight, M ller Bliss, M ller Rice, FRijj and M ller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.
We are recruiting a Chilled Warehouse Shift Lead
We are recruiting a Chilled Warehouse Shift Lead within the Despatch Department at Muller Manchester Dairy.
The purpose of the position is to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.
Contract: Full Time / Perm
Shift Pattern: - 4 on 4 off (2day 2 night 7-7)
Location: Manchester
The ideal candidate will have experience leading and coaching a team within Despatch / Logistics although Training will be provided for this position.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives.
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues.
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence , coaching team on use of the principles and tools.

Muller Responsibilities:

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation .
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills.
• "go, look, see" issues by visiting the workstation when called upon .
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Uses PDCA techniques to follow problems through to "100 year fix" in real time.
• Encourages others to seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects .
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these.
• Looks and encourages others to find "waste" opportunities in everything that we do.

What we are looking for:

• Management experience within a warehouse environment.
• Leadership skills.

Compensation & Benefits:
In return for your contributions to our success, M ller offers a competitive salary package.
We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of benefits:

• Up to 5% Yearly bonus
• Monthly Pay
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• Health care cash plan
• Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform