Shift Manager

Job Description

Production Shift Manager£35,000 + Company benefitsPermanent - Continental Shifts Day/Nights 7am-7pmBlaenau Gwent areaHawk 3 Talent are looking to appoint four Shift Managers who will be responsible for the effective communication and management of supervisors across the site, a specialist manufacturer in the Blaenau Gwent area. They will be responsible for a team of 12delivering production output safely, efficiently, on time, within budget and to required standardsThe main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Enforce Health & Safety requirements in accordance with company policy. Specifically:
• Promote positive safety culture / awareness considering behaviours and attitudes
• Participate in safety audits/checks when required
• Complete initial accident, incident and near miss investigations and reporting
• Enforce compliance with safe working practices (SOPs)

People:

• Identify and support training and development of direct reports across all departments
• Responsible for the completion of all training requirements for all employees (new and existing) across all departments
• Utilisation of resources in line with business priorities and safe working guidelines
• Manage internal recruitment and agency resource
• Enforce effective absence management controls and individual performance management
• Review of performance and feedback to direct reports via the appraisal process
• Support direct reports to close out employee relations issues ensuring the correct processes are followed
• Escalate employee relations issues to the Production Manager where necessary
• Promote employee engagement across all departments
• Manage attendance and all absences via the T&A system and in line with company pay rules

Production & Quality:

• Maximise output in line with production plan
• Optimises outputs by reducing scrap levels, blend costs and energy use whilst maximising machine utilisation
• Manage labour costs and plan resources effectively
• Ensure quality systems are followed, standards are met, and corrective actions are closed out
• Enforce 5s principals across all departments
• Effective delegation of engineering resource
• Work with engineering to ensure repairs and PPM is balanced against operational output and communicate as necessary to direct reports
• Work closely with planning to understand customer requirements / priorities
• Ensure systems are operating effectively and data is accurately recorded and analysed
• Enforce production/quality audit requirements

Other:

• Contribute to and communicate improvement to systems, practices and procedures across all departments
• Provide written reports on all aspects of performance including safety, people and quality using the shift dashboards
• Develop personal knowledge and skills
• Communicate effectively across all areas of responsibility - Safety, Quality, Production and People
• Keep up to date with changes to legislation and company policy

Required Competencies: Leads Self:

• Leads by example
• Behaves with emotional intelligence
• Builds trust and acts with integrity

Leads Others:

• Communicates with impact
• Enables progression
• Builds strong teams

Leads Business:

• Drives and delivers results
• Focus on continuous improvement
• Performs with creativity and Innovation

Knowledge and Experience:

• A proven track record of successful leadership within a manufacturing organisation
• Experience of day to day running of a manufacturing plant
• Self-motivated with proven experience of developing and motivating employees
• Good interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people.
• Good written and presentational skills.
• Proven experience of change management and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives to maximise efficiencies and effectiveness of sites.
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Excellent IT skills and the ability to analyse data

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