Shift Manager (Thursday-Sunday Nights)

Would you like to advance your career and work in a dynamic environment? Join a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

We are seeking a Production Shift Manager with proven paper converting knowledge and experience to join our team manufacturing hygiene paper products This is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing production operations during your shift, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency targets are consistently.

As a Shift Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the converting floor during your assigned shift. You will lead a team of production employees, ensuring targets are met while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency

Responsibilities:

Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient workplace is maintained at all times

Achieve the required company quality standards ensuring both internal and external customer satisfaction

Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved

Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications

Communicate with the teams by utilising the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement

Undertake performance management responsibility for team members, conducting appraisals and giving direction to aid good performance

Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to

Ensure that non-conformance is challenged and countermeasures are agreed and implemented

Lead and motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced

Strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis

Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians

Ensure housekeeping is kept to a high standard

People Management:

Manage manpower resource effectively maximising keys skills in the right areas

Drive company Absence Control Procedures to ensure maximum attendance levels

Manage time and attendance within Company procedures

Motivate and coach the team to operational success

Monitor the completion of tasks and ensure good performance

Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll out through the team so that each member of the team understands the standards and behaviours expected of them

Ensure KPIs are met by working to the overall plan, including management of, and reporting

Provide product expertise within team, and respond to operator queries

Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, the Company Handbook, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures

What We’re Looking For

Proven experience in the paper converting industry (essential).

Strong leadership and people management skills.

Knowledge of converting machinery and processes.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment.

Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Shift Pattern:

Thursday – Sunday Night Shift (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM)

We are WEPA, a forward-thinking European family business with a clear sense of purpose and high standards for our own conduct.

We have been developing, manufacturing and distributing sustainable hygiene papers for generations, thus contributing each and every day to the health, wellbeing and quality of life of millions of people across Europe.

What makes us special: we bring together business strength with responsibility – for our customers, for the environment, and above all for the people who work at WEPA. Across 15 sites in Europe, approximately 4,500 employees design and develop innovative solutions for everyday hygiene ranging from toilet paper and towel paper to tissues, utilising efficiency, sustainability and high quality standards. In doing so we adopt a long-term perspective, invest consistently in sustainable technologies and continuously evolve our company – together with the people who make WEPA what it is.