Shift Team Leader - Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - IPL

Description

Job Description

IPL is a global leading sustainable packaging solutions provider that manufactures specialty rigid packaging products used in the food, consumer, agricultural, logistics and environmental markets. We have over 2,500 colleagues in 18 manufacturing facilities, two corporate & sales offices and three R&D facilities across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Continental Europe, and China. IPL operates in a fast paced and dynamic environment and has significant growth plans, acquiring four businesses within the past year.

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The Production Team are looking to fill the role of Shift Team Leader in their Wolverhampton facility. The Team Leader is responsible for the management of an operational team on shift to ensure self-sufficiency of that team. They will assist the production manager in the management of their shift team including control, planning, organising and motivating. They will ensure that all tasks are carried out safely and effectively meeting all procedural requirements. The job holder is expected to be a role model at all times.

The Team Leader will work on a continental shift pattern, 2 x days (06:45am – 19:00pm) 2 x nights (18:45pm – 07:00am) and 4 x days off. You will be required to arrive at this time to hand the shift over to the next Shift Team Leader, this will be paid for.

IPL Wolverhampton formerly known as Plastic Bottle Supplies, is an industry manufacturing specialist of HDPE Plastic Bottles with a 20 plus year history of servicing many successful businesses within the UK. IPL Wolverhampton manufactures fully recyclable products with post-consumer recycled options available.

Position Title: Shift Team Leader

Location: Wolverhampton

What you will bring to the role:

A reliable, dependable candidate who will bring a team player mindset with the ability to work autonomously as needed.

The successful candidate will:

• Manage HSE issues for the plant during the shift ensuring a zero Accident mentality is maintained.
• Production to Plan (quality, cost, delivery) to meet sales requirements.
• To schedule and utilise the required labour for achievement of the production plan.
• Ensuring that all labour is allocated in accordance with the competencies signed off on the skills matrix.
• Identifying and facilitating any training needs and be actively involved with people management.
• Develop good communication, team spirit and commitment within the team.
• Drive business improvement development within the team to ensure effective problem-solving tools are utilised.
• Use Pareto analysis to regularly identify the top 3 areas for improvement and drive to close out.
• Achieve business and departmental objectives by best use of resources hour by hour.
• Identification of all forms of waste reduction.
• Communicating with the teams by utilising the visual management, delivery shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery and gathering ideas for improvement.
• Undertaking performance management and taking responsibility for team members, conducting appraisals and giving direction to aid good people performance.
• Working closely with the Production Manager and Engineering Manager to escalate production issues, machine breakdown or general production concerns.
• Responsible for accurately completing all compliance paperwork, daily shift reports, HR attendance reports or any other documentation or reporting as and when required by the business.
• Maintaining a consistent production flow ensuring employees are full trained and working efficiently.
• Authority and responsibility to ensure the shift is if fully staffed, ensuring absences are backfilled by IPL or agency staff.
• Reporting and managing employee welfare and accidents whilst on shift.
• Reporting machine discrepancies and ensuring efficient running of all materials where possible.
• Detailed reporting will be required for any issues, discrepancies across the shift this may include; people management, stock, machinery etc.

People Management

• Managing manpower resource effectively to support the delivery of production whilst maintaining manufacturing principles.
• Drive company absence and sickness procedure to ensure maximum attendance levels.
• Deal with all personnel issues on shift including interaction with HR and Senior Management.
• Responsible for all training required including the delivery of all company policies and procedures within your team.
• Managing time and attendance within company procedures.
• Carrying out incident, accident and non-conformity investigations and associated reporting and action closure.
• Motivating and coaching the team to operational success.
• Monitoring the completion of tasks and ensuring good performance and record on appropriate systems.
• Consistently promoting high standard through personal example and ensure this practise is rolled out throughout the team so that each member of team understand the standards and behaviours expected of them.
• Communicating KPIs from the strategic annual plan so that each employee is aware.
• Ensuring KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of and reporting.
• Providing product expertise within the team, and respond to production queries.
• Working positively with support functions to fully define the processes, procedures and controls relevant to team activities, whilst providing support and input to continuous improvement actives within the team.
• Responsible for carrying out employee appraisals, probations reviews, performance reviews, one to one meetings, absence and attendance reviews, investigation meetings with the guidance and perhaps support of Human Resources or Senior Management.
• You will be responsible for ensuring all return to work interviews and paperwork are completed for any absences within your team.
• The authority to ensure the shift is fully staffed to achieve targets and bottles produced, this will include monitoring employee holidays, shift swaps, day to day changes to the staffing rota, managing and controlling agency usage.
• Ensuring all employees comply with Health and Safety policies and procedures whilst ensuring the company handbook and employment contracts abided to.
• Sole autonomy to action and procedure with disciplinary and capability procedures and grievance procedures with the guidance and support of Human Resources and Senior Management.

Relationship Management

• Work positively with support functions to fully define the processes, procedures and controls relevant to team activities.
• Providing support and input to continuous improvement activities within the team.
• Interface with Production Scheduling to determine schedules for shift production, work closely with Production Manager and HR to ensure the shift is fully staffed.
• Liaising and communicating with other departments and ensuring an effective interface with is maintained.
• Providing feedback to the Management team whilst sharing ideas and improve production, recommending, supporting and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimise results and improve quality of delivery, in line with quality standards requirements delivery in line with Company and Customer requirements.

Self-Management

• Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health and Safety regulations, the company handbook, quality and environmental standards and all the company policies and procedures.
• Embracing personal challenges.
• Confidence and rounded thinking whilst ensuring you are self-aware, resilient, assertive, optimistic and open to change.
• Engaging interest and participation of others and has a collaborative approach to working together.
• Actively committed to team development and high levels of motivations and action orientated.

The successful candidate will possess:

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years previous experience of working within a manufacturing environment as a Shift Manager or similar supervisory role.
• Lean manufacturing or production management (Online or Open University)
• GCSE Grade C and above or equivalent Maths and English.
• ILM or equivalent certificate in Leadership.
• Able to work under pressure in a fast-growing business and meet tight deadlines.
• Understanding of health and safety processes and safe methods of working
• Displays safe and considerate working practices.
• Fully computer literate and competent using all Microsoft packages including Outlook.
• Can do will do - Showing a positive professional attitude to everyday challenged. Actively looking for the opportunity to make improvements. Willingly to engage in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Delivers Results- Leading by example. Coordinate activities for efficient service delivery across the teams. Managing and motivating the team and striving for success. Commercial acumen.
• Customer Focus – Ensuring the customer expectations and requirements are met.
• Delivers Results – Leading by example. Coordinate activities for efficient service delivery across the teams. Managing and motivating the team and striving for success. Commercial acumen.
• Communication – Competent communicating at all levels within the business. The ability to build strong relationships across all stakeholders.
• Mindset – Showing a positive and professional attitude to everyday challenges whilst continuous improving processes.

Desirable

• Experience with blow moulding, injection moulding or manufacturing plastic products.
• FLT License.
• Lean manufacturing.
• BTEC Qualification of equivalent to Level 3 in Engineering discipline.
• Six Sigma Training or knowledge of.
• First Aid Training, First Aid, HACCP Training, BRC Training and HACCP Training – Desirable to have prior to employment, you will be required to undertake all of this training during employment.
• Managing People – IPL Training will be provided.