Manufacturing Shift Lead

We are looking for a Manufacturing Shift Lead to provide day-to-day leadership within our Manufacturing team. You will be accountable for hitting production plans, maintaining a safe and compliant working environment, and driving quality, cost and continuous improvement across your area. This is a hands-on leadership role, coaching and developing Production Operators to deliver safe, right-first-time output.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage shift resources (people, equipment and materials) to meet daily/weekly/monthly production targets.
• Provide daily updates and short interval management (SIM) reporting against agreed metrics.
• Support delivery of assigned projects on time and maintain standard work practices across all processes.
• Monitor cost performance versus plan; highlight variances and support actions to meet financial targets.
• Create and maintain a safe, compliant working environment; report accidents and hazards promptly and monitor trends.
• Ensure COSHH and risk assessments are reviewed and kept current in line with regulations.
• Maintain compliance to the Quality Management System (QMS), ensure accurate completion of records and drive audit readiness.
• Identify and progress process improvement opportunities, supporting implementation of new technologies and lean/continuous improvement activities.
• Coach, develop and performance manage Production Operators, ensuring adequate skills and resources to deliver to target output.
• Promote our core values, embrace change and encourage collaborative ways of working across the area.
  
  

Essential Experience And Qualifications

• Proven experience operating within a manufacturing environment, with responsibility for leading people and delivering to plan.
• Strong safety mindset with experience of creating safe systems of work, completing/maintaining risk assessments and raising/acting on hazards.

Working knowledge of quality systems and maintaining accurate manufacturing records; able to operate within a regulated QMS and sustain audit readiness.

Excellent communication skills, able to deliver clear daily communications across a shift.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

High level of documentation management (GDP and cGMP).

IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent) or willingness to achieve.

OS2 Practitioner (Bronze equivalent) or willingness to achieve.

Desirable

• Experience in 5S, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tools and techniques.
• Experience supporting the introduction of new technologies or process changes in a production environment.