Shift Manager

Provide visible, accountable leadership for the Distillery / Co-Products Plant shift, ensuring that people, plant and processes are managed safely, compliantly and efficiently. The Distillery / Co-Products Plant Shift Manager translates the site strategy into consistent daily execution by setting clear standards, developing team capability and making timely, solution-focused decisions within agreed boundaries.

Provide visible, accountable leadership for the Distillery / Co-Products Plant shift, ensuring that people, plant and processes are managed safely, compliantly and efficiently. The Distillery / Co-Products Plant Shift Manager translates the site strategy into consistent daily execution by setting clear standards, developing team capability and making timely, solution-focused decisions within agreed boundaries.

An experienced and engaging direct line manager with proven success in leading operational teams within a brewing, distilling, FEMAS, FMCG, COMAH site or Oil and Gas environment. Able to work flexibly and with energy to motivate reports, whilst also collaborating efficiently with peers as part of the day-to-day management team.

• Formal Management Qualification and/or several years experience of management in a manufacturing or FMCG environment
• Intermediate PC Skills - high standard of document production and report writing
• Basic user of computerised maintenance management systems
• Demonstrable experience in working with others to deliver tangible and measurable improvements.

• NEBOSH / IOSH Managing Safely - or the ability and willingness to work towards this
• Trained, competent and experienced in Permit to Work systems, risk assessments and method statements
• Solid knowledge of HSE legislation

• Demonstrable experience in leading, developing, managing and motivating teams, as well as direct reports

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely with direct reports and external contractors to ensure that all work is properly planned and coordinated
• Confident, with the ability to gain trust and respect
• Flexible and able to respond quickly to business needs

• Ensure that all Distillery/Co Products activities on site are carried out in accordance with the relevant work instruction, adhering to the necessary Company health, safety and environmental requirements and complying with all regulatory current legislation to maintain a safe working environment for all employees.
• Lead the shift in accordance with site safety, environmental, quality requirements.
• Maintain visible leadership in operational areas ensuring that incidents, near misses and abnormal conditions are managed, reported and investigated appropriately.
• Maintaining an awareness of the regulatory and Company standards that apply to the role such as HMRC, COMAH and H&S, FEMAS (food & feed safety), ISO
  9001. COMAH specific - Understand and act as act as a member of the Emergency response team as required (trained to Incident Controller) in the event of an evacuation or major incident in the event of an occurrence, and regularly participate in COMAH improvement activity. Longer term be an active member of the Site Emergency Response rota
• Ensure compliance with the site Control of Work system, undertaking Permit to Work (PTW) issuance and area approval in accordance with site procedures and risk assessment.
• Ensure disciplined shift handovers, accurate records and timely escalation of risk, production constraints and unresolved issues.

• Translate the production plan into a safe and achievable shift plan, balancing labour, plant availability, maintenance requirements, raw materials, storage capacity and downstream constraints.
• Manage the production plan, identifying and coordinating suitable maintenance windows with Engineering colleagues to enable completion of planned maintenance activities.
• Manage raw material stocks by monitoring stock levels and liaising with suppliers.

• Own process centrelining and standardisation across the shift, ensuring defined operating settings are consistently followed, driving corrective actions to resolve deviations and escalating where necessary
• Standardise team meetings and daily reviews using agreed agendas, measures and action tracking
• Attend and support operational review meetings,…