Night Shift Leader

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Night Shift Senior to take responsibility for the effective running of our night-shift manufacturing operation, providing strong leadership, direction and accountability to ensure production targets and business requirements are consistently achieved.

As the Night Shift Senior, you will be:

• Responsible for leading, managing and coordinating the night-shift workforce.
• Providing clear direction, motivation and support to Team Leaders and Factory Operatives.
• Taking ownership of the overall night-shift operation and making effective operational decisions.
• Driving production performance, efficiency, yield and waste reduction.
• Ensuring production plans and customer requirements are achieved.
• Promoting a positive culture of accountability, teamwork and continuous improvement.
• Deputising for senior management when required.

As the Night Shift Senior, you will have:

• Accountability for Health & Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Hygiene standards.
• Responsibility for labour planning, resource allocation and workforce performance.
• Ownership of production issues, downtime, operational challenges and corrective actions.
• Responsibility for ensuring all checks, audits, paperwork, SAP and Redzone requirements are completed.
• The authority to challenge poor performance and drive improvements across the operation.
• Responsibility for effective communication and handovers between shifts.
• Regular engagement with Engineering, Quality, Planning and senior management to ensure operational continuity.

The ideal candidate will have proven leadership experience within a food manufacturing or FMCG environment, strong communication skills and the confidence to manage people, make decisions and work independently. A proactive, hands-on approach, good understanding of manufacturing processes and a commitment to achieving high standards are essential. Level 2 Food Safety, HACCP knowledge and production management system experience would be advantageous.

By applying for this Night Shift Senior role, you are agreeing to you CV being held on our database stored confidentially and securely. Your CV details will be used and kept only to provide recruitment services from us. We will only send your details to clients once discussed with you, and you data will not be shared with any third party. You can ask for the deletion or correction of your data, or to opt out of this service at any point by informing Exact Sourcing.

We very much look forward to hearing from you and will be reviewing all applications over the next 2 to 3 weeks. If you are selected, we will be in contact and if not, we will be keeping your details on file for any future vacancies.

Exact Sourcing is an equal opportunities employment agency.