Production Shift Manager

To lead and manage production operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant. The role is responsible for delivering production targets, maintaining food safety and hygiene standards, and providing strong leadership to ensure a high-performing, engaged shift team. Driving process improvements around site standards, process improvements and team development.,

• Take ownership and accountability with Health and Safety standards and review and evaluate the health and safety risks and control measures in the work area and make improvements.
• Ensure the smooth running of the grading operation to achieve the optimum efficiency and achieve the required throughput in line with site KPI's
• Manage the production supervisors & machine controllers to ensure people, process and product is at the forefront of the operation.
• Ensure product quality meets the technical specifications at all times and provide clear and concise actions when standards are not achieved
• Plan production runs to minimise waste, meet warehouse and customer lead times ensuring product is delivered OTIF (On Time in Full)
• Identify and develop potential within the team, and work closely with the Site Manager in ensuring the correct training and support is given whilst ensuring the staff training matrix is kept up to date working together with the site training department
• Ensure all KPI's are documented correctly celebrating when achieved or exceeded and actioned with root cause analysis in a timely manner when not as agreed with the site manager.
• The site is committed to being "audit & visitor ready" at all times. Therefore it is imperative that site hygiene, health & safety, and document control are all in line with customer specifications and current legislation
• Be required to conduct investigations, disciplinary and absence management meetings in line with the company policies and procedures
• Maintain site budgeted manning levels at all times to achieve the site cases per man hour targets as agreed with the site manager
• Ensure a clear development and training plan is in place for all direct and indirect reports for the production department including both new starters, team members and supervisors.
• Prioritise self development and promotion of learning and developing employees.
• Support and contribute to business social and environmental responsibilities.
  
  We are looking to recruit energetic and passionate people to support the production team by receiving product into the factory; experience is not necessary as all training will be provided!
  
  Noble Foods is a family-owned company which began in 1920 and includes successful milling, poultry, agriculture, and consumer foods businesses. Within this, Noble Foods owns several successful brands, including the UK's biggest free-range egg brand the Happy Egg co., Big & Fresh and Purely Organic.
In a recent survey by Best Companies we were rated as one of the Top 10 companies to work for in the Food and Drink industry.