Operations Shift Manager - County Mayo

Operations Shift Manager - County Mayo.

The shift pattern for this role is alternating weeks of: 

Week 1: Monday to Thursday (Days) 7am – 7pm:

Week 2: Monday to Wednesday (Nights) 7pm – 7am

Core duties:
• Manage, lead and motivate a multi-skilled Operations group in an empowered team-based environment, ensuring full engagement of team members.
• Ensure daily operations are carried out in compliance with all appropriate safety, quality and environmental standards.
• Execute daily and weekly production plans to meet all Business Plan commitments.
• Ensure timely completion of all corrective and preventive actions to avoid repeats of Service and Quality defects, and all audit non-conformances.
• Ensure a consistently high level of communication with the Operations team members through daily, weekly, and monthly routines.
• Drive, manage and embed operational excellence and a continuous improvement culture within the team to deliver improvements through lean principles and systems.

Qualification & Requirements:
• Third level qualification, diploma or degree in a business or technical discipline required.
• A minimum of 3 to 5 years’ experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience in people management in a people focused, team-based environment.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable working in a team-based, matrixed environment.
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting demands and to prioritise accordingly.
• High level of PC literacy.

Interested applicants should be excellent multi-taskers and should have previous experience leading a multi-skilled team in a pro-active, hands-on way, having responsibility for all aspects of shift team performance.