Shift Lead

Acu IT; Market Drayton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dairy product manufacturer is seeking a Shift Lead for its Butter Department in Market Drayton. This role involves coaching and developing front-line team members, managing performance reviews, and solving operational issues. The ideal candidate has strong problem-solving capabilities and a deep understanding of Operational Excellence principles. The company offers a competitive salary, a yearly bonus, pension scheme, generous holiday, and various health benefits.

Benefits

Up to 10% yearly bonus

Salary sacrifice Pension scheme

Life Assurance

33 days holiday per year

Health care cash plan

Access to Muller Rewards platform

Qualifications

• Experience in coaching and developing team members.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence principles.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver development plans for team members.
• Coach front-line team members to solve problems.
• Manage performance reviews and address employee relations issues.
• Collaborate with other teams to improve business processes.

Skills

Coaching

People management

Problem solving

Operational Excellence

Education

Relevant managerial experience

Job description

Company Description

Mller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Mller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Mller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Mller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocers Top 100 list of Britains Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Shift Lead within the Butter Department at Muller Market Drayton to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.

Shift Pattern

4 on 4 off

Location

Market Drayton (Butter)

Responsibilities

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives.
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues.
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence, coaching team on use of the principles and tools.

Key Tasks

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation.
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills.
• Go, look, see issues by visiting the workstation when called upon.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Uses PDCA techniques to follow problems through to 100 year fix in real time.
• Encourages others to seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects.
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these.
• Looks and encourages others to find waste opportunities in everything that we do.

Learning and Development

• Site and department induction.
• Operational Excellence Advanced.
• All Dairy Technical Competency Workshops.
• Train the Trainer (Inc coaching & facilitation).
• People Essentials.
• Developing Teams Using Pathfinder.
• Level 3 Fit for Leadership Apprenticeship Programme or equivalent Fit for Leadership modules.

Compensation and Benefits

In return for your contributions to our success, Mller offers a competitive salary package.

We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of benefits:

• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• 33 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan
• Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform