Production Shift Manager

About the Role

Ready to lead from the front, motivating and managing a high performing production shift in a forward-thinking business?

Look no further! We are excited to be recruiting our next Shift Manager based out of our Telford site, at Northwood Hygiene Products! 

Your leadership and management expertise from the FMCG industry will be utilised, providing daily opportunities to ensure safety first, excellent output, high quality, and efficiency are demonstrated on your shift, motivating and developing your team to achieve and exceed results.

Your shift pattern will be 4-on-4-off, working both days (6am to 6pm) and night shifts (6pm to 6am).

Job Opportunity

How you will add value to Northwood Hygiene Products:

You will lead from the front, motivating and mentoring a production team in achieving targets, maximising line efficiency and minimising cost. You will promote and foster safety and quality, managing daily SOR meetings to enable open communication and build a collaborative team environment.

We'll rely on you to manage daily staffing levels, ensuring crewing sheets are completed accurately, and communicating available resources to all departments.

To ensure your team are performing well, you will communicate daily and hourly line performance targets in a clear and professional manner, taking responsibility for outcomes.

To develop your team, you will utilise the performance management framework, ensuring all of your team are fully trained to perform their assigned tasks, and that all sign-off documentation is complete and verified.

It's essential that we are compliant, therefore a key part of your role will be ensuring legal and company regulations and compliance standards are adhered to. This includes H&S and Environmental standards, and liaising with the Quality team to ensure communication and adherence to QC procedures.

Departments you will collaborate with include Engineering, Quality, Health and Safety and HR, to ensure we're operating as efficiently as we can.

We are keen to speak with you if you have strong experience within an FMCG production/manufacturing environment in a team leadership capacity (e.g. Shift Manager, Team Leader, Production Manager, Line Manager, or similar).

Apply today, and we'll look forward to speaking with you regarding your Northwood career!

Essential Skills

Experience and skills you will bring:

• Leading and mentoring a team of at least 20 people
• TPM/Lean manufacturing knowledge and application
• Proven experience within a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment
• Critical thinking, coupled with efficient problem-solving skills
• Experience in implementing CI initiatives
• Proactive with excellent time-management skills
• Big-picture mindset, enabling you to relate events, processes and procedures to the wider business mission and purpose
• Ideally, you will hold qualifications in people management, and health and safety

Recruitment Process

Should you be shortlisted, you will receive an email from TalentCentral SHL with an invitation to complete our candidate assessment. This will ensure we can accurately evaluate your competencies and skills.

If you require any adjustments to complete the online assessment, please get in touch.

About Company

Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.

Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.

Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.

We are a highly successful, award-winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.  

We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market-leading service and sales support.

DE&I

At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.

Benefits

• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Free company products
• Free on-site parking
• Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
• Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
• Free early access to pay scheme
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Employee referral scheme