Shift Leader
About this opportunity
The Shift Leader has day-to-day accountability for supervising the team of Production Operators, safely delivering the shift production targets, supporting maintenance activities, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The Shift Leader has day-to-day accountability for supervising the team of Production Operators, safely delivering the shift production targets, supporting maintenance activities, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Day shifts available - 6:00 am to 2:00 pm
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Work with the Production Manager to deliver on daily and weekly production schedule, achieving optimum production efficiencies and DIFOT.
- Ensure measures are in place for all employees to perform at their best at the start of each shift.
- Ensure that all Operators understand and follow the site SOPs.
- Hold Operators accountable for achieving all quality standards.
- Responsible for maintaining housekeeping standards during their shift.
- Build the capability of the team through monitoring skills, maintaining training schedules and delivering training to the team when needed.
- Actively participate with meaningful feedback at start up and handover time on all production related activity.
- Escalate any issues through the Production Manager to sales and logistics to ensure customer delivery on-time.
- Be an active member of the operations team through open & honest communication.
Your skills and experience
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- Ideally have a background in plastics recycling
- Worked in a similar industrial based manufacturing business
- Sound background in managing and leading small teams
- Worked in a 24/5 environment
- Lean manufacturing experience
Qualifications
- Relevant trade background, (e.g. Boilermaker, fitter) is an advantage
- FLT license is an advantage