Shift Manager

Walker Cole International is exclusively supporting a growing pharmaceutical organisation in Wales in the search for an Operations Shift Leader. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the business during an exciting phase of growth, managing supervisors and teams across a production line while integrating operations across multiple shifts and driving output, productivity and quality.

Your responsibilities as the Operations Shift Leader will include:

• Explaining the local action plan to team members, connecting day-to-day activity to the broader business strategy, and motivating people to achieve local business goals.

• Overseeing an operational area including dispensing raw materials accurately in line with GMP discipline to satisfy manufacturing schedules.

• Developing production plans, work schedules and resourcing to achieve agreed commitments, and reconciling materials used within specific limits, investigating any variations.

• Identifying shortcomings in existing manufacturing processes and delivering improvements to methods, procedures and packaging processes.

• Setting performance objectives, coaching and developing team capability, and leading designated projects from planning through to closure within agreed timescales and budgets.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Substantial general work experience with comprehensive, fully competent expertise managing in a factory environment, ideally within pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging.

• Thorough knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Health & Safety requirements; Lean Six Sigma experience advantageous.

• Experience planning and managing resources to deliver objectives set by senior management.

• Strong track record in production practice, workflow management and multi-line operations coordination, with the ability to work independently and provide guidance to others.

• An engaging leadership style with a focus on driving accountability, results and continuous improvement, while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

Operations Shift Leader | Shift Manager | Production Manager | Manufacturing | GMP | Quality Management Systems | Lean Six Sigma | Continuous Improvement | Total Productive Maintenance | Team Leadership | Production Planning | Health and Safety | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing