Shift Manager

Location: Sudbury, Suffolk
Shift Based Position – 4 on 4 off, 2 days and 2 nights. AVE 42 hours a week

Salary circa £50,000 (depending on experience) plus potential 8% bonus, private medical insurance, and other fantastic benefits.

Championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.

Position Summary

We are excited to share we have an opportunity for an experienced operations professional who is looking to share their skill-set in a role that offers an opportunity for an opportunistic future.

This role requires a strong people manager that can share and contribute to the continuous improvement of the plant and their processes, providing an optimum service to the Teams. This opportunity comes with great responsibility and recognition in our plant, have you got what it take?

The opportunity is to join our production teams as a Shift Manager, based at our Nestlé Purina factory in Sudbury, Suffolk.

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A day in the life of a Shift Manager…

As the Shift Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that across site the production plan is fully achieved on time and in compliance with standards and legal requirements, meeting safety, quality, hygiene, cost and environment needs in a 24-hour, 7 day a week operation, driving our people to success and delivering the production plan.

Other key day-to-day activities will be:

1. You will drive Standards and our Key Standard Routine journey ensuring results are delivered consistently and any deviation are actioned using continuous improvement and selective TPM tools.
2. Empowering and inspiring people by supporting the line team and developing their capability.
3. Maintain a safe working environment in compliance with local laws, SHE and Quality standards by identifying risks associated to activities within zone and ensure reactive incidents are managed and resolved or escalated, striving for zero unsafe conditions and behaviours to achieve zero accidents.
4. Support Engineering on unplanned stops root cause and resolution.
5. Support and execute identified planned tasks. Liaise with support departments and use their resources to make necessary changes.
6. Effectively manage the Shift Operational Review and the Autonomous Working Group (AWG).
7. Adopt and nurture a working style which actively involves and motivates colleagues, promoting an environment of continuous improvement and excellence.
8. Develop organisational capability by supporting and co-ordinating in the transfer and enhancement of skills through coaching others and share current best practice within the team.

What will make you successful

To be successful in this role you will have a proven track record working in a FMCG manufacturing environment. Other key attributes we are looking for are:

1. People management skills that include but not limited too the management of teams with an average of 30 people in them.
2. Worked in a complex matrix manufacturing site.
3. Demonstrate the ability to motivate, coach and develop personal development plans for team members.
4. Provide evidence of Continuous improvement projects that you have been included in and your contribution or examples of projects delivered as the lead.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 24 February 2025.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know.