pladis Global
Night Shift Team Manager
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world?
Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
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Manufacturing Team Manager - Night Shift
Working Pattern: The shift is 5 nights (10pm-6am), Sunday to Friday
Based on site in Carlisle, Cumbria
What will this role achieve?
As the Manufacturing Team Manager, you will be expected to make a positive impact and deliver results through others, by overseeing their development and leading by example. The purpose of your role is to manage people, plant, product, and process delivery. You will be responsible for site critical metrics, team performance, and operational efficiency.
What will be your key deliverables?
Team Leadership and Development:
- Direct, challenge, motivate, lead, and coach team members.
- Conduct regular monitoring, feedback, and development initiatives to maintain skills and competencies.
Operational Efficiency:
- Ensure production meets plan targets and deploy the labor plan.
- Manage Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), accuracy, waste recording, downtime, packet weights, labor numbers, and efficiency.
System Utilization:
- Utilize and maintain systems like Autostore, Workday, SAP, SFOL, Absence Manager to gather and produce management information.
Communication and Customer Service:
- Ensure effective communication between operations, management, support teams, and engineering.
- Promote high levels of customer service and identify ways to improve customer satisfaction.
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Quality and Compliance:
- Follow Quality Management Systems and procedures.
- Maintain hygiene audit standards and ensure documentation is completed to the required standard.
- Identify and resolve problems in staff, production, and equipment areas.
Bring your experience
Essential:
- Validated leadership skills, leading by example, demonstrating high standards of behavior, honesty, and integrity.
- Be a confident, effective, and challenging communicator, and be able to demonstrate a track record in leading teams to drive up standards and improve efficiency in all areas.
- Management experience gained within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience of working within a Lean Environment.
- A consistent track record of delegating, empowering, influencing, and motivating people to achieve goals.
- An accountable mentality is crucial.
Desirable:
- Experience of working across bakery and snacks processing is preferable.
- Positive approach to self-development and achieving the skills required to fulfil the role.
- Ability to positively adapt and respond to change for self and others.
- Develop and support people through coaching and feedback to achieve excellence.
What will the interview process be?
- 1st stage interview – 45 minutes competency-based interview based on our company values and your experiences.
- 2nd stage interview – 60 minutes – a technical interview to understand your skill set/case study or presentation interview.
pladis does also use both Psychometric and Aptitude tests to support our processes, so you may be asked to complete these as part of your process. Some processes may differ, but we will keep you updated!
What does pladis offer you?
- Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) – this is the business’s annual bonus scheme.
- Private medical Insurance
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance Cover ~ upon enrolment to Stakeholder Pension Scheme.
- Holiday Enhancement Scheme
- 1 Volunteering Day per year
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discount and Cashback Scheme – make your everyday spending work hard for you on major high street brands, supermarkets, and services.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Access to great training and development opportunities
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Our Values
- Purpose led – We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite.
- Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers.
- Positive – We’re highly motivated, optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better.
- Resilient – We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn, and move forward.
- Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together.
Best mix of ingredients
pladis is an equal opportunities employer, like every great recipe we’re a thoughtful mix. A happy and inclusive place to work that’s as diverse as our consumers and the communities we support, live, and work in, all around the world. Where every voice is heard, and difference is celebrated. Where fresh perspectives and new ideas help us grow and thrive.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit a candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
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