Shift Lead

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller and employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. The company develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 British farmers.

We are recruiting for a Shift Lead within the Production Department at our Müller Manchester Dairy. The purpose of the position is to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.

Contract: Full Time/Permanent

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off (2 days 2 nights 7 7)

Location: Manchester

Responsibilities

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives.
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues.
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence, coaching team on use of the principles and tools.
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation.
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills.
• "go, look, see" issues by visiting the workstation when called upon.
• Uses PDCA techniques to follow problems through to "100 year fix" in real time.
• Encourages others to seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects.
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these.
• Looks and encourages others to find "waste" opportunities in everything that we do.

Qualifications

• Management experience within a warehouse environment.

Benefits

• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Monthly pay
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Müller matching up to 4%
• Life assurance at 4 your annual salary