Shift Manager

Overview

Shift Manager role at Dairygold Co-Operative Society Ltd. 8 Month Fixed Term Contract – Shift Manager, Clonmel Road, Mitchelstown.

Dairygold is Ireland's largest farmer-owned co-operative. Our Golden Vale location is home to nutrient-rich pasture lands across the Munster valleys, where farmer shareholders produce quality-assured, naturally sourced raw materials. We combine farming heritage with nutrition expertise and technology to supply the global market with premium cheese and dairy ingredients. Our headquarters are in Mitchelstown, Cork with operations in Ireland, Europe and worldwide.

Join us as we continue to challenge ourselves, exploring nutrition-focused solutions for populations worldwide with a focus on sustainability, quality, and full traceability.

About The Opportunity

The Shift Manager will work closely with the Production Manager and the Site Management team to achieve site targets and meet/exceed customer expectations, whilst adhering to safety, food safety, quality and environmental standards across all production activities on the site.

Core Responsibilities For This Role

• Promote a safety culture within the site, monitor adherence to all EHS standards and procedures
• Effectively lead a large team of operators to ensure production output targets are met, conduct effective workgroup meetings and manage the maintenance team (out of hours)
• Monitoring shift performance and driving your team to achieve all relevant KPIs
• Working with Planning to ensure plan fulfilment, throughput, efficiency, quality, cost and OEE delivery
• Managing colleague performance and ensuring team development and communication measures are in place and that training records are maintained and compliant to demonstrate skills and competence of team
• Monitoring product quality and ensuring compliance with RFT, Hygiene, Incident Reporting, Change Control and technical standards
• Supporting audits and customer visits as required and implementing actions arising from audits and visits
• Completing all Oracle system requirements to maintain accurate financial data
• Supporting CI using established tools and techniques to successfully root cause issues and drive improvements and that actions are implemented
• Actively manage payroll, yield and ingredient usage ensuring that measures are implemented to address deviations
• Responsible for ensuring that areas within your span of control are always audit ready, that audit recommendations and solutions to customer complaints are implemented fully within the designated timeframes
• COD and Hydraulic loading incident reporting and investigation

What you will bring to Dairygold

• Exceptional technical skills with a proven ability to consistently understand complex processes in order to rectify processing defects and stoppages in a timely manner with right first-time solutions
• Strong results orientation with a proven ability to prioritise and organize work to ensure delivery against production and bottom-line targets
• Confident and able to manage own workload and make complex decisions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong sense of personal responsibility for the areas within your span of control and a capacity to build strong working relationships with people
• Proven ability to effectively use core CI tools and techniques with a demonstrated CI mindset to seek and implement opportunities to drive improvement of standards and output on site
• Excellent People Management skills with an aptitude for leading and developing your team to deliver all targets (production and cost) and an ability to obtain results through teamwork, motivation and real employee engagement
• Flexible and adaptable with a proven track record in positively responding to changing work demands
• Third Level qualification in a relevant discipline (Food Science, Technology, Engineering)
• Previous relevant experience in a similar role
• Proven record in maintaining safe work environments
• Capable of understanding the underlying processes across the full remit of the role
• Strong business acumen, customer focus and commercially aware
• Passion to apply key continuous improvement principles in a fast-moving production environment
• Performance driven with a proven track record of achievement, high integrity and capability to exercise sound judgement in decision-making

What Dairygold will offer you

• Be a part of Our Strategy Our Future 2030 which supports growth ambitions
• Exciting and challenging career with training and up-skilling opportunities
• Competitive wage opportunities alongside our annual bonus scheme
• Competitive company pension scheme
• Contributions towards healthcare
• Company sick pay scheme
• Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing initiatives
• Supportive culture with opportunities to grow
• Paid family leave
• Culture and Sports/Social club
• Continuous improvement and innovation; empowerment to share ideas
• Zero Harm employee safety initiatives
• Employee Service Awards

Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited is an equal opportunities employer.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Strategic Management Services

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