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production shift manager

working four days on 06:00-18:00 and four days off, followed by four nights on 18:00-06:00 and four off.

salary: 48,300 including shift allowance

you will lead a production line team where you will be responsible for ensuring shift activity takes place in a safe and compliant environment, where all colleagues are engaged in Key Performance Indicator (KPI) achievement and continual improvement results in exceeding customer satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTS: Essential Requirements:

1. Previous manufacturing experience in a FMCG and target driven environment.
2. Demonstrated ability to lead, build relationships, delegate when appropriate and organise work groups in an improvement driven environment.
3. A strong communicator - ability to communicate in English in written, listening and spoken form.
4. Data analysis and strong problem solving (numeric interpretation skills).
5. Basic engineering knowledge that allows contribution to improvement and fault diagnostics.
6. Self-motivated / self-starter.
7. An excellent organiser of all resources - people, plant, budget.
8. Ability to coach and manage individual performance and development.
9. Able to take ownership of issues and work on own initiative, without management supervision.
10. Ability to drive and motivate the team to achieve the highest standards and surpass attainment of target KPIs as identified by the Manufacturing Manager.
11. Flexibility when required to ensure business needs are met

A key requirement for the position is resource planning for the shift and looks at short, medium and longer-term requirements that are considered and signed off with the Production Manager. The Shift Leader is the primary shift process knowledge holder, who constantly reviews the skill set of your Area Owners to identify and deliver the appropriate development that enables continual improvement. You will be expected to spend most of your time with the team developing their skills and understanding how they work, to gain the most potential from them to drive performance and KPI achievement.

• Enforcing safety in all areas of the factory
• Enforcing compliance in all aspects of food manufacture and customer requirements
• Efficiency monitoring at each stage of the production line to include: monitoring waste & re-work and monitoring downtime and ensuring correct reason tree allocation of this indicators
• Enforcing Autonomous Maintenance (Along the line) including:
  • Planning and conducting AM events in line with site road map
  • Follow up actions of AM events captured and closed out in a timely manner
  • Forward planning of AM events in line with site road map
• Making decisions based on information provided by Operatives/Area Owners
• Validating accuracy of information on MES recorded by Operatives/Area Owners and correcting where necessary
  • Coaching and training Operatives/Area Owners to make the correct decision first time including recording of downtime and waste
• Coaching, guiding and directing Operatives to promote a self-managing team
• Monitoring performance and providing continuous feedback for development and growth
• Conducting RCA methods to completion utilising site documents
  • Fishbone/6M/4M
  • 5Why
• Contribute as a team member to meetings
• GEMBA walks per rotation
• Forward planning of staff
• Forward planning and organisation of tasks such as clean down and product changeovers optimising this time efficiently
• Contributing to5S projects or other continuous improvement tasks.
  • 5S Reviews
  • Process audits
  • Kaizen activities

Desirable Requirements:

1. Previous food processing experience.
2. Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma technique experience.
3. Bakery process knowledge

Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.

The Shift Manager will oversee daily operations within the Engineering & Manufacturing department, ensuring efficiency and compliance with quality standards. This role in the industrial and manufacturing industry is ideal for an organised and proactive individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Client Details

The organisation is a well-established medium-sized company operating within the industrial and manufacturing industry. With a focus on innovation and quality, the company prides itself on delivering exceptional products and services to its clients.

Description

Key responsibilities:

• Supervise and coordinate shift activities to meet production targets and deadlines.
• Ensure all operations comply with safety and quality standards.
• Monitor and optimise workflow, addressing any inefficiencies or issues.
• Lead, support, and motivate a team of production staff during shifts.
• Conduct regular inspections of equipment and machinery to ensure functionality.
• Collaborate with other departments to maintain smooth operational processes.
• Maintain accurate shift records and prepare detailed reports for management.
• Implement and uphold company policies and procedures during all shifts.

Profile

A successful Shift Manager should have:

• Previous experience in a supervisory or managerial role within the industrial and manufacturing sector.
• Strong understanding of production processes and safety protocols.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with relevant software and tools used in manufacturing operations.
• The ability to manage and motivate a diverse team effectively.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Job Offer

What's on offer:

• A competitive salary 51,493 per annum + bonus.
• Opportunities for career growth within the Engineering & Manufacturing department.
• A permanent position with job security in Sheffield.
• A supportive and professional working environment.
• Comprehensive training and development programmes.

If you are ready to take on a rewarding role as a Shift Manager in Sheffield, apply today to join a reputable company in the industrial and manufacturing industry.

We are supporting a leading food manufacturing business based in the North East of England as they have an opening for a Production Shift Manger.

The Production Shift Manager will be responsible for setting and driving operational standards in relation to People, Product, Process, Plant and Performance across all of the shift.

On Offer:

• £47,000 - £50,000 base salary + overtime opportunities
li>Working 4 on 4 off (2 days / 2 nights)

Duties:

• Manage a trained and motivated shift team with committed, multi-skilled and flexible colleagues.
• Operate flexibly and respond quickly to change and opportunities – actively demonstrate the capacity to get into action fast and make things happen.
< i>Ensure that all roles are suitably resourced and effectively utilised in order to meet capacity/customer requirements.
• Ensure that all appropriate people mapping and planning is in place at all times. Your shift should never be over or under resourced with either permanent or agency colleagues.
• Take ownership and accountability for every aspect of your products on shift, making sure they comply to all company and customer specification
• Follow the daily plan and make sure it is delivered in the correct order, on time and in full
• Collect and understand KPIs, share key highlights and trends with direct reports.
• Ensure that planned outputs and performance efficiencies are consistently achieved in line with KPI requirements and standards.
• Take accountability for all shift production ensuring that plant throughput rates are met to achieve the required production targets to meet customer service levels whilst maintaining the integrity of the product.
• Set high GMP standards through visible leadership including daily walk rounds with direct reports, line manager and SLT, highlighting any issues and implementing solutions and remedial actions.

Experience Needed

• Production experience at shift management level gained in a food manufacturing environment
• Customer focus: understands the needs of different customers.
• Standards and systems: understands technical and operating standards.
• Leadership and communication: is able to provide clear direction to lower level reports.
• Team working: demonstrates an ability to work as an active member of a team.
• Health and Safety: demonstrates understanding and awareness of health and safety.
• Demonstrates knowledge of GMP and HACCP

If you want to find out more about the role, please apply with your most recent CV or contact Richard Steele at Alexander Steele recruitment.

Location: Coventry
Salary: 38,000 - 45,000 (depending on shift pattern) + bonus

Summary:
Are you a confident leader with a background in overseeing fast-paced production environments? We're looking for a Production Shift Manager to take ownership of shift performance and lead a growing team within a specialist FMCG production facility.

In this key leadership role, you'll be responsible for managing people, processes, and performance across your shift - ensuring safety, quality, and targets are consistently met. You'll be at the front line of the operations, driving continuous improvement and inspiring your team to achieve excellence every day.

This role is working on a 3-on-3-off shift pattern, with option for the day shift (6am - 6pm) or the night shift (6pm - 6am).

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the whole production operation and being accountable for all activities on shift.
• Leading, coaching, and motivating a team of Production Operatives and Team Leaders to meet production KPIs.
• Working cross-functionally with maintenance, quality, and planning teams to resolve issues quickly.
• Ensuring compliance with all health & safety and hygiene regulations, conducting audits and daily checks.
• Carrying out HR-related tasks such as staff reviews, return to work procedures and investigations.
• Organising labour schedules, booking additional agency staff when required to meet production needs.
• Driving lean principles and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Reporting on shift performance and contributing to operational planning.

Experience:

• Proven experience in a shift management or supervisory role within a FMCG or high-speed manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience within a semi or fully automated operation is desirable.

• Strong leadership, communication, and people management skills.

• Working knowledge of production KPIs, lean tools, and health & safety regulations.

• Hands-on, proactive, and solutions-focused mindset.
• High attention to detail and able to create reports and analyse findings.

Processing Your Data

Bis Henderson Recruitment is a leading provider of recruitment, interim management and consultancy services to the supply chain and logistics industry. Should you respond to this advertisement we may store your CV and contact details and will process this data for recruitment purposes only. Should we process your data, then we will always tell you that we are doing so.

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All applicants must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK as our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.

Looking for your next challenge HellermannTyton is hiring a Production Shift Manager to join our team in Manchester.

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Location: Manchester, M22 4TY

Salary: Competitive

Working Hours: 06:00 – 18:00 and is a rolling rota consisting of 6am-6pm shifts on a 3 on 3 off basis

About Us:

At HellermannTyton, we’re more than just a leading manufacturer - we’re a trusted global partner in cable management, data connectivity, and network infrastructure solutions.

Since 1935, our mission has been to provide innovative solutions for all cable management needs – with customer satisfaction as our priority. Our portfolio includes more than 75,000 items, and we operate 15 world-class manufacturing facilities in 38 countries, employing over 6,000 people.

You will be joining a business with ambitious growth plans, currently undergoing a period of change to enhance our performance and seize every opportunity for greater success. We strive to be elite and are looking for individuals who share this vision.

Production Shift Manager – The Role:

The Production Shift Manager is responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the factory during their shift.

They hold overall accountability for the safe performance of the shift and must ensure that appropriately trained personnel are in place to meet customer commitments. This includes continually monitoring production requirements and allocating resources effectively to maintain optimal performance.

Production Shift Manager – Key Responsibilities:

- Maintain and improve upon machine standards, cleanliness, and organisation of working areas

- Communicates with all areas of the business to ensure the continual operation of the manufacturing process

- To ensure compliance for all employees and agency workers on shift with all Company Health & Safety policies.

- Accountable for effective training and development for all employees

- Responsible for shift operational KPIs in line with the shift production plan

Production Shift Manager – You:

- Experience of working in a manufacturing environment and utilising lean manufacturing principles to drive performance improvements

- Injection Moulding experience would be advantageous

- Proven ability to lead and motivate and engage a team to succeed through coaching and development of skills, knowledge and attitude and defining responsibilities to give a clear sense of direction

- Ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues

- Drives change and improvements

- Strong data drive problem-solving skills and able to establish logical, practical solutions

- Computer literate working to intermediate excel level

Benefits:

- Enhanced annual leave

- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies

- An enhanced sick pay scheme

- Comprehensive mental health and wellbeing support, including access to counselling, an employee assistance programme, mortgage brokering services, and additional resources for you and your family

- Free on-site car parking

- Subsidised canteen facilities at our larger locations

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List for recruitment agencies and are not currently seeking additional partners. Any CVs submitted speculatively by agencies outside of our PSL will be treated as a gift, and no fees will be payable.

To submit your CV for this Production Shift Manager opportunity click ‘Apply’ now!

production shift manager

working four days on 06:00-18:00 and four days off, followed by four nights on 18:00-06:00 and four off.

salary: 48,300 including shift allowance

you will lead a production line team where you will be responsible for ensuring shift activity takes place in a safe and compliant environment, where all colleagues are engaged in Key Performance Indicator (KPI) achievement and continual improvement results in exceeding customer satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTS: Essential Requirements:

1. Previous manufacturing experience in a FMCG and target driven environment.
2. Demonstrated ability to lead, build relationships, delegate when appropriate and organise work groups in an improvement driven environment.
3. A strong communicator - ability to communicate in English in written, listening and spoken form.
4. Data analysis and strong problem solving (numeric interpretation skills).
5. Basic engineering knowledge that allows contribution to improvement and fault diagnostics.
6. Self-motivated / self-starter.
7. An excellent organiser of all resources - people, plant, budget.
8. Ability to coach and manage individual performance and development.
9. Able to take ownership of issues and work on own initiative, without management supervision.
10. Ability to drive and motivate the team to achieve the highest standards and surpass attainment of target KPIs as identified by the Manufacturing Manager.
11. Flexibility when required to ensure business needs are met

A key requirement for the position is resource planning for the shift and looks at short, medium and longer-term requirements that are considered and signed off with the Production Manager. The Shift Leader is the primary shift process knowledge holder, who constantly reviews the skill set of your Area Owners to identify and deliver the appropriate development that enables continual improvement. You will be expected to spend most of your time with the team developing their skills and understanding how they work, to gain the most potential from them to drive performance and KPI achievement.

• Enforcing safety in all areas of the factory
• Enforcing compliance in all aspects of food manufacture and customer requirements
• Efficiency monitoring at each stage of the production line to include: monitoring waste & re-work and monitoring downtime and ensuring correct reason tree allocation of this indicators
• Enforcing Autonomous Maintenance (Along the line) including:
  • Planning and conducting AM events in line with site road map
  • Follow up actions of AM events captured and closed out in a timely manner
  • Forward planning of AM events in line with site road map
• Making decisions based on information provided by Operatives/Area Owners
• Validating accuracy of information on MES recorded by Operatives/Area Owners and correcting where necessary
  • Coaching and training Operatives/Area Owners to make the correct decision first time including recording of downtime and waste
• Coaching, guiding and directing Operatives to promote a self-managing team
• Monitoring performance and providing continuous feedback for development and growth
• Conducting RCA methods to completion utilising site documents
  • Fishbone/6M/4M
  • 5Why
• Contribute as a team member to meetings
• GEMBA walks per rotation
• Forward planning of staff
• Forward planning and organisation of tasks such as clean down and product changeovers optimising this time efficiently
• Contributing to5S projects or other continuous improvement tasks.
  • 5S Reviews
  • Process audits
  • Kaizen activities

Desirable Requirements:

1. Previous food processing experience.
2. Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma technique experience.
3. Bakery process knowledge

Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.

We are supporting a leading food manufacturing business based in the North East of England as they have an opening for a Production Shift Manger.

The Production Shift Manager will be responsible for setting and driving operational standards in relation to People, Product, Process, Plant and Performance across all of the shift.

On Offer:

• £47,000 - £50,000 base salary + overtime opportunities
li>Working 4 on 4 off (2 days / 2 nights)

Duties:

• Manage a trained and motivated shift team with committed, multi-skilled and flexible colleagues.
• Operate flexibly and respond quickly to change and opportunities – actively demonstrate the capacity to get into action fast and make things happen.
< i>Ensure that all roles are suitably resourced and effectively utilised in order to meet capacity/customer requirements.
• Ensure that all appropriate people mapping and planning is in place at all times. Your shift should never be over or under resourced with either permanent or agency colleagues.
• Take ownership and accountability for every aspect of your products on shift, making sure they comply to all company and customer specification
• Follow the daily plan and make sure it is delivered in the correct order, on time and in full
• Collect and understand KPIs, share key highlights and trends with direct reports.
• Ensure that planned outputs and performance efficiencies are consistently achieved in line with KPI requirements and standards.
• Take accountability for all shift production ensuring that plant throughput rates are met to achieve the required production targets to meet customer service levels whilst maintaining the integrity of the product.
• Set high GMP standards through visible leadership including daily walk rounds with direct reports, line manager and SLT, highlighting any issues and implementing solutions and remedial actions.

Experience Needed

• Production experience at shift management level gained in a food manufacturing environment
• Customer focus: understands the needs of different customers.
• Standards and systems: understands technical and operating standards.
• Leadership and communication: is able to provide clear direction to lower level reports.
• Team working: demonstrates an ability to work as an active member of a team.
• Health and Safety: demonstrates understanding and awareness of health and safety.
• Demonstrates knowledge of GMP and HACCP

If you want to find out more about the role, please apply with your most recent CV or contact Richard Steele at Alexander Steele recruitment.

Location: Coventry
Salary: 38,000 - 45,000 (depending on shift pattern) + bonus

Summary:
Are you a confident leader with a background in overseeing fast-paced production environments? We're looking for a Production Shift Manager to take ownership of shift performance and lead a growing team within a specialist FMCG production facility.

In this key leadership role, you'll be responsible for managing people, processes, and performance across your shift - ensuring safety, quality, and targets are consistently met. You'll be at the front line of the operations, driving continuous improvement and inspiring your team to achieve excellence every day.

This role is working on a 3-on-3-off shift pattern, with option for the day shift (6am - 6pm) or the night shift (6pm - 6am).

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the whole production operation and being accountable for all activities on shift.
• Leading, coaching, and motivating a team of Production Operatives and Team Leaders to meet production KPIs.
• Working cross-functionally with maintenance, quality, and planning teams to resolve issues quickly.
• Ensuring compliance with all health & safety and hygiene regulations, conducting audits and daily checks.
• Carrying out HR-related tasks such as staff reviews, return to work procedures and investigations.
• Organising labour schedules, booking additional agency staff when required to meet production needs.
• Driving lean principles and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Reporting on shift performance and contributing to operational planning.

Experience:

• Proven experience in a shift management or supervisory role within a FMCG or high-speed manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience within a semi or fully automated operation is desirable.

• Strong leadership, communication, and people management skills.

• Working knowledge of production KPIs, lean tools, and health & safety regulations.

• Hands-on, proactive, and solutions-focused mindset.
• High attention to detail and able to create reports and analyse findings.

Processing Your Data

Bis Henderson Recruitment is a leading provider of recruitment, interim management and consultancy services to the supply chain and logistics industry. Should you respond to this advertisement we may store your CV and contact details and will process this data for recruitment purposes only. Should we process your data, then we will always tell you that we are doing so.

Please visit our website to read our Privacy Policy in full, in this Policy you will find information about our compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

All applicants must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK as our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.