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Shift Leader
Lead high-performing teams, drive operational excellence, and deliver quality every shift.
About the Role
Our new Shift Leader will play a pivotal role in leading production, packing, and distribution operations within a fast-paced FMCG manufacturing environment. Responsible for delivering production targets, maintaining exceptional food safety and quality standards, and fostering a positive, engaged team culture, this role is key to ensuring operational success across the shift.
You’ll collaborate closely with senior leadership, technical, engineering, HR, and HSE teams, leveraging data, continuous improvement methodologies, and strong people leadership skills to achieve performance goals while upholding the highest standards of safety, quality, and compliance.
This position operates on a rotating shift pattern:
- Week 1: 0600–1400
- Week 2: 1400–2200
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Leading and developing production teams to achieve daily operational and production targets.
- Promoting a positive health, safety, and environmental culture through visible leadership and proactive risk management.
- Ensuring food safety, hygiene, and quality standards are consistently met throughout the shift.
- Monitoring and improving key performance indicators (KPIs), driving accountability, and maintaining performance standards.
- Leading continuous improvement initiatives to optimise efficiency, productivity, and cost performance.
- Coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to build capability and create succession plans.
- Collaborating with Technical, Engineering, HR, and Learning & Development teams to align with site objectives.
- Supporting audit readiness and upholding compliance with customer, legal, and internal standards.
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Ideal Candidate
An experienced Shift Leader with:
- Solid manufacturing experience, ideally within FMCG and exposure to short shelf-life products.
- Level 3 knowledge in food safety, hygiene, and HACCP principles.
- People management, coaching, and team development skills.
- Comfort in managing performance, priorities, and operational challenges in a high-pressure environment.
- Experience with continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
- Strong communication skills to build cross-departmental relationships.
- A results-driven mindset with excellent problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
Why Sofina Foods?
Join a role where your impact on operations is visible daily:
- Lead large and dynamic teams, shape operational strategy, and champion continuous improvement projects.
- Collaborate with experienced leaders in production, technical, engineering, and support functions.
- Develop your leadership capabilities, contribute to ** organisation-wide improvements**, and uphold quality, safety, and customer service standards.
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Beyond the role, Sofina Foods is a place to build your future:
- Part of a global team of 13,000+ across 40 sites in Canada and Europe, dedicated to delivering quality meats and seafood.
- Innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction are foundations of everything we do.
- Work with responsibly sourced products from over 50 sources across five continents.
- Join a journey to become the most successful food company worldwide.
Equal Opportunities
Sofina Foods is committed to an equal opportunities workplace, celebrating diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender identity
- Marriage/civil partnership
- Maternity/paternity status
- Race
- Religion/belief
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
Schedule & Location
- Monday to Friday
- 8-hour shifts (rotating as detailed)
- Full-time role
- Location: Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, UK
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