Details:
- Salary: £36,000 - 37,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Blackburn Lancashire
- Date: 2 days ago
Description:
Shift Manager
Blackburn
Thursday to Sunday - Night Shift
£37,000
***Additional Hours If Required***
We are looking for a motivated Shift Manager to join a leading manufacturer. Reporting directly to the Operations Manager you will be a key member in ensuring the production facility is kept running. As a Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the shop 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
Role Description:
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
Ensuring 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 the 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
Skills and Qualifications:
Previous Leadership Experience - 3 to 5 years
Previous Manufacturing Experience - 3 to 5 years
In return for your commitment my client offers a stable and secure career for a technically motivated engineer. If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV directly to Morgan Blount at or call for a confidential discussion on (phone number removed)