Shift Manager
| Posting date: | 16 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2025 |
| Location: | BB2 2BN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Wepa Professional UK Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 160725 |
Summary
About the job
Job Description
Would you like to advance your career and work in a dynamic environment? Join a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?
We are looking for a Production Shift Manager to join our team manufacturing hygiene paper products.
As a Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the converting floor during your assigned shift. You will lead a team of production employees, ensuring targets are met while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency
Responsibilities
• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient work place is maintained at all times
• Achieve the required company quality standards ensuring both internal and external customer satisfaction
• Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications
• Communicate with the teams by utilising the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement
• Undertake performance management responsibility for team members, conducting appraisals and giving direction to aid good performance
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to
• Ensure that non-conformance is challenged and counter-measures are agreed and implemented
• Lead and motivate the team to create a high performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
• Strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians
• Ensure housekeeping is kept to a high standard
People Management
• Manage manpower resource effectively maximising keys skills in the right areas
• Drive company Absence Control Procedures to ensure maximum attendance levels
• Manage time and attendance within Company procedures
• Motivate and coach the team to operational success
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviours expected of them
• Ensure KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of, and reporting
• Provide product expertise within team, and respond to operator queries
• Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures
Shift Pattern
Monday to Thursday Nightshift - 44 Hours per week
7pm - 7am
Job Description
Would you like to advance your career and work in a dynamic environment? Join a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?
We are looking for a Production Shift Manager to join our team manufacturing hygiene paper products.
As a Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the converting floor during your assigned shift. You will lead a team of production employees, ensuring targets are met while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency
Responsibilities
• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient work place is maintained at all times
• Achieve the required company quality standards ensuring both internal and external customer satisfaction
• Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications
• Communicate with the teams by utilising the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement
• Undertake performance management responsibility for team members, conducting appraisals and giving direction to aid good performance
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to
• Ensure that non-conformance is challenged and counter-measures are agreed and implemented
• Lead and motivate the team to create a high performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
• Strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians
• Ensure housekeeping is kept to a high standard
People Management
• Manage manpower resource effectively maximising keys skills in the right areas
• Drive company Absence Control Procedures to ensure maximum attendance levels
• Manage time and attendance within Company procedures
• Motivate and coach the team to operational success
• Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance
• Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviours expected of them
• Ensure KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of, and reporting
• Provide product expertise within team, and respond to operator queries
• Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures
Shift Pattern
Monday to Thursday Nightshift - 44 Hours per week
7pm - 7am