Shift Manager

Shift Manager - Logistics

Salary: Circa £40,000 plus £8,879 shift allowance

Bonus and flexible benefits available, including:

• Company-funded private medical healthcare
• Double-matched pension (up to 10% of base pay)
• 35 days’ holiday (plus the option to buy and sell)
• Comprehensive opportunities to develop via our learning platform and courses
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers!

Function: Supply Chain - Logistics

Location: Manchester

Contract: 18 Month - FTC

Latest Closing date: 31st May . Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

Why Manchester?

There has never been a more exciting time to join our Manchester Brewery. We are firmly planted in the community thanks to a number of investments in the site over the past few years, totalling more than £70 Million. Our brewery remains a pivotal part of our UK supply chain network, producing around five million hectolitres per year of Foster’s, Kronenbourg 1664 – and, more recently – Heineken®. We’re delighted to have been given the quality seal of approval from our Amsterdam Head Office to brew Heineken on our site – and as a bonus, we’re making our carbon footprint smaller in the process.

What’s the role?
As a Shift Manager, you will be leading a shift team to deliver the logistics KPI targets for the site. In this role safety will be your number one priority – you will actively contribute to our Zero Accident Culture through leading by example. You will lead with a passion for quality by ensuring your people have the skills and capability to complete Quality assurance and control checks as required. You will constructively lead Daily Control System meetings and shift handovers. With a desire to learn, you will build up a full understanding of the role and how it fits into the broader Heineken supply chain. This understanding will allow you to actively contribute to improving the financial impact of operational performance – your responsibility will be monitoring and minimising raw material and product loss and controlling stock levels accurately. This is a people manager role and requires an individual who exhibits the behaviours outlined in our Leadership Expectations - That’s an important part of the role!

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a leader who is self motivated, positive and ready to engage and lead a team of experience technical operators. You’ll be in charge of encouraging and ensuring they have the right skills, behaviours, development and support to drive brilliant results. On top of that you’ll have:

• Previous experience in high-speed packaging lines
• Previous experience of people management
• High attention to detail with health and safety as priority

Life at HEINEKEN

We’re building a future that embraces innovation, sustainability, diversity and, of course, the opportunity for our 2,400 UK colleagues to make the most of their careers.

We encourage all our colleagues to grow and reach their full potential. We’re also well-aware that successful careers seldom run in a straight line, so if you’re in search of fresh opportunities (including global or cross-functional moves), mentoring or simply want to pick up a new skill, you’ll have access to all the support you need.

Caring for people & the planet is one of our core values and we understand that each of our colleagues’ needs and circumstances are different. This is why we have a smarter working policy in place which includes access to hybrid working, flexible start and finish times and condensed hours, to name a few.

Our colleagues love life at HEINEKEN, and we’re confident you’ll feel the same way – but don’t take our word for it. Search the #LifeAtHEINEKENUK hashtag on LinkedIn to hear from our colleagues about what makes HEINEKEN such a special business to be a part of.

The application

If you like what you’ve read and want to explore this opportunity further, please apply before the closing date listed at the top of the advert.

Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us as recruitment@heineken.co.uk.

In all likelihood the ideal candidate for this role won’t meet every single requirement in this advert, in fact we all need the opportunity to grow and develop in role. We understand some applicants are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every single qualification. The team at HEINEKEN would encourage you to submit an application if the advert has peaked your interest rather than ruling yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs. You never know, you may be exactly what we’re looking for!