Shift Manager; Nights

To support the Factory Manager in overseeing the night shift operations of the high‑speed production line, ensuring production targets are met efficiently and safely. The role involves leading the team, maintaining high standards of quality and compliance, and driving continuous improvement within the production process. You will play a key part in ensuring smooth operations, resolving issues promptly, and contributing to the overall performance and success of the factory.

• Health, Safety & Environment Responsibilities
  • Understand the Health, Safety & Environmental Policy's, safe rules, and statutory requirements applying to all operations under your control.
  • Ensure that all employees that you manage understand and agree to company Health & Safety rules, have received the appropriate Health & Safety Induction, and are instructed and supervised as may be necessary to enable them to work safely, and without injury or ill health.
  • Ensure that all employees you manage know the procedures for reporting accidents and know what to do in the event of a fire, or other emergencies that may require evacuation of the workplace.
  • Ensure that, where required, protective clothing and equipment is available to all employees, and that it is correctly used.
  • Ensure that risk assessments are undertaken to an acceptable level, and that they are reviewed as required. Ensure employees are aware of hazards and control measures that impact them. Continually seek to reduce risk where possible.
  • Ensure that new processes, products and equipment are subject to a risk assessment, and that the residual level of risk is reduced to an acceptable level prior to launch or implementation.
  • Ensure regular safety inspections and audits are undertaken to check that the Health & Safety rules and procedures are fully implemented and adhered to at all levels across the site.
  • Investigate all accidents, incidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences promptly and report the findings to the Factory Manager, and the Health Safety & Environmental Compliance Manager.
  • Ensure that appropriate remedial action is taken in respect of all reported defects and complaints.
  • Take responsibility for all Visitors / Contractors within your area.
  • Ensure that good housekeeping standards are maintained.
  • Ensure that all equipment is properly and regularly maintained, and repaired by competent persons, and that records are maintained of these works.
  • Stop a process that is operating out of compliance or specification on legal requirements or is unsafe.
• Food Safety & Quality Responsibilities
  • Ensures team comply with factory dress code standards at all times. Immediately deals with non conformances (e.g., correct hair nets, jewellery removed, jackets buttoned correctly).
  • Ensures prohibited items are not being taken into factory (e.g., sweets, chewing gum, phones). Initiates pocket searches if required.
  • Ensures product produced is made to the SOP and meets customer specification.
  • Works in partnership with Quality team to improve quality standards and close out non conformances within timeframe given.
  • Ensures area constantly at audit standard and CAYG in place. Ensures successful audits of own area, deals promptly with any non conformances.
  • Knows what HACCP is, implications in own area and ensures all appropriate controls and paperwork is in place.
  • Ensures paperwork is accurate, fully completed, delivered on time and enables full traceability. Understands the legal implications of not doing this properly.
  • Ensures compliance with allergen and speciation control on changeovers. Clearly understands the health risks to consumers and the recall implications (e.g., product crossovers).
• Leading People
  • Able to effectively train, coach and mentor team members. Ensures training matrixes are up to date and all required training and refresher training completed.
  • Knows how to best motivate and retain each member of the team. Keeps team members informed of what is going on in the team.
  • Delivers huddle in absence of manager.
  • Effectively manages time off requests balancing employee requests and business needs. Approves holidays/time off requests in conjunction with the shift manager to ensure the department doesn't let too many off at anyone one time/skills.
  • Instigates investigations when required. Able to conduct a fair and balanced investigation. Keeps report factual.
  • Able to conduct an effective disciplinary hearing and grievance hearing - first stage.
  • Regularly reviews own performance in ensuring Ethical trading principles are embedded.
  • Demonstrates honesty and transparency as to what's not working. Encourages team to do the same. Demonstrates ability to call out any non conformance so it can be fixed.
  • Looks after the health and wellbeing of team members. Effectively monitors absence and follows absence processes. With the support of HR completes return to work interviews, competent at absence reviews & OH referrals.
  • Demonstrates ability to effectively reward and recognise…