Manufacturing Shift Supervisor

Manufacturing Shift Supervisor

£42,000- £50,000 + Progression + Annual Bonus + Private Health care + Overtime available

Permanent Nights- Monday to Friday

Excellent role on offer for an ambitious Manufacturing Shift Supervisor looking to join a well-established, market leading company where you will play an integral part to drive production and safely deliver/ manage the area of business ensuring the appropriate and desired results are met. You will need to provide line management/supervision of the team, whilst offering input into continuous improvement activities.
The ideal candidate for this position will have previous Lean Manufacturing Supervisory experience within a manufacturing environment.
You will need to have excellent people skills and be looking to work for a growing/market leader.

The Manufacturing Supervisor will be responsible for:
* Continuous improvement solutions to identify cost and time saving initiatives
* Ensure team members have a clear line of sight from their own and Business KPIs.
* Coach and support Team Leaders to drive the delivery of breakthrough results through their teams to the achievement and sustainment of operational targets.
* Be authentic to inspire great performance and create trust and commitment.
* Manage the performance of individuals by conducting regular performance, career and development discussions.
* Build high performing teams.
* Accountable for Night performance; Area improvement CI plan; supporting the introduction of new technology.
* Ensure robust processes and procedures are in place and complied with, to meet plant operating standards, legislation and audit requirements; identifying issues and taking action as required.
* Build an in-depth technical understanding of the plant.
* Use business systems to manage and make decisions on day to day and longer-term activity.
* Drive and champion projects in the plant to improve performance, capacity, H&S, Quality, CI, OEE, Food Safety and Environmental impact
* Understand the wider supply chain and broader business.
* Understand the impact of decisions on total delivered cost (e.g. labour, consumables, raw materials, equipment, energy etc).
* Build a broad understanding and working practice of all applicable legislation and audit requirements.
* Respond to data and results to drive plant performance.
* Establishing practices to maintain a Food Safety and Quality focused mindset that holds people to account for those standards.
* Managing your shift in such a way that encourages your team to adopt this mind set and deliver high levels of compliance at all times as a basic operating standard by ensuring competence and capability of team members.
* To ensure a safety culture and safety awareness is adopted by team and self, and to ensure all operatives work within and in recognition of all appropriate Risk Assessments
* Support the effective management and development of team through coaching, mentoring, training, and proactive communication.

Requirements and skills:
* Have a minimum of 3-5 years relevant practical supervisory or management experience in a manufacturing environment.
* Confident and assertive communication at all levels: Essential
* Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills with the ability to multi-task
* Assertive, independent and self-sufficient
* Cope effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines
* Analytical and able to drive performance
* Proven management style focused on coaching and mentoring
* Lean manufacturing principles- Desirable
* Food Hygiene -Desirable
* Health and Safety Requirements within FMCG-Desirable
* HACCP-Desirable
* Understanding of continuous improvement-Desirable
Do you have previous experience in supervising a team within a Manufacturing environment? Do you have great verbal and written communication skills, strong organisational and time management skills?
If so, please apply for immediate consideration.

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