Zone Manager - Manufacturing Burnley, England
Job description
Would you like a career in an innovative manufacturing company?
Where people are encouraged to challenge the convention and are encouraged to develop themselves?
All this is possible with this FMCG manufacturing company, where we are looking for a Production Manager to be the team leader for a designated area of the manufacturing operations.
As Shift Production Manager, you would lead and develop your area within manufacturing operations, make sure that the Area runs safely, efficiently and effectively.
Driving a continuous improvement culture that ensures quality products delivered to Customers on time and in full.
Responsibilities also include:
- Management responsibility for leadership of Area Team.
- Deputise for the Operations Shift Manager and taking active leadership in CI initiatives on a daily basis.
- Ensure all individuals, including engineering / contractors conform to health, safety and environmental legislation, policies and standards.
- Responsible for driving the team members to ensure that the Area performance is in-line with or ideally better than KPI targets.
- Responsible for maintaining company and statutory hygiene standards and good housekeeping.
- Identify issues through data and proactively assess solutions through root cause analysis.
Our ideal person will have:
- Experience for training and coaching others.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they occur and taking action deal with them correctly and swiftly.
- Working knowledge & utilisation of Continuous Improvement techniques
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to monitor work carried out by others to ensure tasks are delivered to time, quality and other requirements.
- Able to make timely decisions in a considered and pragmatic way.
- Ability to recognise day-to-day issues, which are commercially important to the business.
- Able to inspire the team to perform, dealing effectively with performance issues and creates a sense of trust in the team.
This company is ambitious, invested in a great deal of automation and the latest technology as much as they are invested in their people’s development.
Apply here for a confidential conversation to see how this role in this 24/7 operation could propel your career forward.
