They are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual who can lead the shopfloor and work well within a team environment. You will have the ability to deliver day-to-day packing and distribution activities whilst remaining compliant within a regulated environment, and supporting improvements.
Salary: £50,000
Hours of work: Monday to Thursday 2.00pm – 10.30pm, Friday 12.00pm – 8.30pm.
PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU MEET THE MAJORITY OF THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:
* You can start with short notice (ideally a maximum of 2 weeks).
* Expereince of working in one or more of the following highly regulated GMP production industries; Pharmaceutical / Chemicals / Food & Drink / Cosmetics.
* Experience of supervising and leading teams of around 30+ staff members within a Packing department.
* Ideally you will have a University Degree, or a similar level qualification.
* Good knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety compliance.
* A working knowledge and practical experience continuous improvement methodologies.
* Knowledge of computerised systems such as Oracle / similar software package.
Responsibilities:
Your role will be to lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the packing shift team, ensuring that safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets are met. You will be responsible for team performance, engagement, and compliance, acting as the key point of contact for operational issues during their shift.
- Direct line management of packing team.
- Participate and encourage use of recognition schemes.
- Management of team attendance relating to overtime, holiday approvals, welfare checks, return to work (RTW) interviews and any consequent absence reviews.
- Lead performance management processes, including appraisals and feedback and where required performance improvement plans (PIPs).
- Own skills matrix and training plans for the shift coordinating closely with the improvement lead to ensure we have sufficient trained resource to meet production demand.
- Deliver shift briefings and ensure effective 2-way communication with the shopfloor.
- Drive employee engagement and contribute to the people plan to create a positive culture.
- Manage grievance and disciplinary processes in line with HR policies.
- Support recruitment and onboarding of new team members.
- Lead accident and incident investigations and closure of required corrective actions.
- Drive strong housekeeping standards to maintain a safe working environment.
- Ensure team’s adherence to risk assessments and input to updates where required.
- Promote active participation in hazard identification and resolution of open hazards.
- Deliver toolbox talks and safety communications.
- Ensure team compliance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as well as batch documentation with a focus on Right First Time (RFT).
- Support preparation and execution of internal and external audits from document control through to housekeeping standards.
- Monitor daily telemetry including response to alarms as required.
- Lead alignment and sign-off of production plans via Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) process and delivery through process optimisation.
- Ensure plan delivery through effective resource and process management,
- Ensure completion of short interval control (SIC) sheets to ensure detail available for data analysis for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, maximise output and drive schedule adherence.
- Ensure completion of Oracle transactions to ensure recovery plan adherence.
- Drive live yield optimisation to reduce waste during production.
- Manage consumable ordering and usage tracking to budget.
- Lead Tier meetings and work cross functionally to drive shift performance.
- Champion safety, quality and productivity improvements, encouraging all team members to come forward with ideas and supporting them to implement them, where this is possible.
This role would suit someone with a previous job title such as; Warehouse Manager / Warehouse Supervisor / Logistics Team Leader / Logistics Supervisor / Production Team Leader / Production Supervisor / Production Manager / Manufacturing Team Leader / Manufacturing Supervisor / Manufacturing Manager / Shift Supervisor / Shift Team Leader / Shift Manager / etc
Salary description
£50000.00 - £50000.00 per year