Production Shift Lead

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.
Production Shift Lead
Bridgwater – TA6 6DF
4 on 4 off (2 days, 2 nights: 7-7)
We’re recruiting a Production Shift Leader at Muller Bridgwater to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.
The ideal candidate will have experience within Food Production or have a FMCG background and will lead the team to continued success.
Responsibilities as Production Shift Lead will include but not be limited to:
- 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.
As Production Shift Lead, benefits will include:
- Up to 10% yearly bonus
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
- Generous annual leave
- 33 days holiday per year
- Health care cash plan
- Life assurance
- Muller rewards platform saving you money across numerous retailers
- Long term career with an established business
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Supportive team and friendly environment