Shift Manager – Green Tunnels

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental procedures and legislation.
• Ensure that product quality exceeds customer expectations. (Internal & external customers).
• Ensure ‘Green’ repairs are effective whilst investigating root cause analysis to ‘design’ in quality.
• Manage compliance with QA inspections ensuring daily QC checks are performed above 90% RFT and reported at daily KPI meeting.
• Delivery of production outputs in line with targets and objectives.
• Meet or exceed consistent & sustained achievements against specific KPI targets around OEE, FPE, CTP, Quality, Costs & Efficiencies.
• Effective management of all resources to ensure just in time delivery of materials and other resources aligned to delivery of production plan. Develop a fully flexible team with effective SOP.
• Identification & implementation of productivity improvements using lean principles.
• Be aware of associated costs of production and endeavour to reduce, using the 8-waste principles, where possible.
• Train and develop the production team to maximise efficiency and staff development.
• Contribute to improvement initiatives and developments and provide any other services as required in support of these initiatives.
• Produce weekly reports summarizing plant performance & improvement objectives.

Accountabilities:

• Manage Team Leaders/Supervisors ie their team members, providing feedback where necessary, conducting performance reviews and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure that all team members and new starters have a full understanding of the duties they are expected to perform, and that they fully understand their responsibilities to work safely (trainings, competency, SOPs, RAs).
• Manage staffing rosters to ensure there is always an optimum staffing complement to meet workload demands, including the pre-authorisation of overtime working where applicable.
• Manage attendance and timekeeping and take initial action in cases of poor timekeeping and unauthorised absence.
• Manage sickness absence, including taking sickness reporting calls and dealing with returns from short-term sickness absence, and support the management of long-term sickness absence cases.
• Ensure that all team members are aware of the expected standards of behaviour, and that these standards are adhered to, maintain discipline and deal with minor infringements of the Employee Rules.
• Organise and lead team pre-shift briefings, ensure team members are kept up to date with Company communications and conduct communications sessions (including but not limited to Toolbox Talks where applicable).
• Cooperate, if necessary, with HR department with needed Investigations, Company Policy adherence meetings, Performance and Probation review meetings, PDR review meetings etc.

Key experience, qualifications and skills:

• - Experience of implementing Lean / leading Continuous Improvement events. Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent as minimum.
• Operational leadership experience in construction end-product, precast concrete or manufacturing environments. casting, setting and pouring of minimum of 5 years.
• Experience of managing people with the confidence to tackle a variety of performance and other related issues, whilst ensuring adherence to HR compliance, processes & policies.
• Specific knowledge and experience of managing production teams.
• Company policies, procedures and practices on:
• Health & Safety
• Disciplinary & Grievance
• Attendance & Absence
• Sickness
• Bullying & Harassment
• Equality & Diversity
• Pay & Benefits
• Managing performance
• Degree or other equivalent higher education qualification preferred but not essential.
• MS Office and strong computer skills
• (minimum) IOSH Certificate in Managing Safely (preferably NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety)
• VFL Training
• First Aid Training (Emergency Responder) – preferred, but not essential.
• Train the Trainer programme
• [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] first-line supervisor modules:
• - Managing and Motivating People
• Handling Discipline and Grievances
• Managing Poor Performance and Sickness
• Holding Difficult Conversations
• Equality, Bullying & Harassment
• Effective Communications
• Satisfy the role requirements in the GT Production Skills & Competencies Matrix

Safety Behaviours:

• Communicate and share the Company’s vision for safety.
• Regularly review and refresh team members’ knowledge and awareness of safe working practices and hazards specific to their area of work.
• Hold self and others accountable for maintaining very clear safety standards.
• Ensure safety considerations are taken into account when making operational, technical and business decisions.
• Assess what resources are needed to perform the job safely.
• Take personal involvement in delivering challenging but achievable safety objectives and targets.
• Treat safety issues in a proportional and consistent way, never use safety as an excuse for doing or not doing something where it can’t be justified.

Personal qualities:

• Influential and capable of engaging/inspiring people
• Displaying personal attributes, which include tenacity, resilience, a positive disposition, a “can-do” attitude, assertiveness & a high degree of determination to succeed.
• Commitment to own continued, professional development.

If you are interested in being considered for this role, please enclose a covering letter and CV and send to us either by email, using the button, or by post to: Human Resources [Employer hidden] Ltd Littlewell Lane Stanton by Dale Ilkeston Derbyshire DE7 4QW

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