Production Shift Manager
Information
Location: Brighouse
Hours: Full-time // Rotating shifts 6-2, 2-10 and 10-6
Salary: Negotiable
Main Responsibilities
- Take ownership of daily production performance across one or more production areas.
- Ensure output, quality, safety and delivery targets are consistently achieved.
- Manage labour planning, shift balance, absence, attendance and resource deployment.
- Use production data, downtime information, quality trends and labour performance to identify problems and drive action.
- Improve labour efficiency, workflow, handovers, communication and accountability.
- Coach and develop supervisors, team leaders and operators.
- Address poor performance, poor behaviours and weak standards promptly and professionally.
- Maintain and actively use training matrices to improve flexibility and cross-training.
- Support reduction in rework, remakes, quality issues, missed orders and operational disruption.
- Ensure SOPs, PPE and H&S standards are followed consistently.
- Lead practical continuous improvement initiatives that deliver measurable benefits.
- Strengthen the existing production team by improving consistency, capability, ownership and alignment with Quickslide’s standards.
Description
The Role
As Production Shift Manager, you will take ownership of shift performance across output, quality, safety, labour efficiency, attendance, communication and delivery.
You will be expected to run the shift effectively day to day but also improve the department over time. This means using production data, shopfloor observation and structured problem-solving to identify issues, challenge inefficiency and deliver measurable improvements.
The successful candidate will be visible on the shopfloor, firm on standards, commercially aware, comfortable with data and capable of supporting supervisors, team leaders and operators; so that existing capability, consistency and accountability can continue to strengthen over time.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who can provide evidence for more than just basic production supervision. The right candidate will have:
- Proven leadership experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Experience managing production performance, including output, quality, safety, labour and KPIs.
- Ability to use data to identify issues, improve performance and support decision-making.
- Strong people leadership, including coaching, performance management and developing others.
- Strong understanding of health and safety and production systems.
Candidate Evidence Required
At interview, you'll be expected to provide examples of how you've improved production performance, efficiency, quality or delivery and used data and Lean tools to solve operational problems and deliver measurable improvements. You should also prove how you have reduced waste, downtime or labour inefficiency as well as how you have delivered sustainable improvements that continued beyond implementation.
IMPORTANT: If your experience is mainly limited to maintaining daily output or supervising people without wider ownership of cost, quality, labour, data, improvement and people development, this is unlikely to be the right role.
What Success Looks Like
- Consistent achievement of production and OTIF targets.
- Improved labour efficiency, quality and resource utilisation.
- Reduced waste, rework, downtime and operational disruption.
- Safe, organised and well-managed production areas.
- Stronger team capability, accountability and communication.
- Measurable continuous improvement driven by effective leadership and data.
Benefits:
• Bereavement leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
• Brighouse HD6 4BW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
• Lean manufacturing: 3 years (required)
• Leadership: 2 years (required)
• Continuous improvement: 2 years (required)
The Necessary Skills, Qualifications and Experience include:
- Lean manufacturing: 3 years required
- Leadership: 2 years required
- Continuous improvement: 2 years required
- Manufacturing leadership experience: required
- Continuous improvement experience: required
- Practical Lean manufacturing knowledge or training: strongly preferred
- Experience managing production KPIs, labour planning and team performance: strongly preferred
- First Aid trained or willing to become a First Aider
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