Nightshift Manager / Nightshift Supervisor
Location: Caythorpe, Lincolnshire
Shift Pattern: Nightshift, rota-based
Reports To: Site Manager / Operations Manager
Overview
Full responsibility for site operations during the nightshift, ensuring safety, efficiency and compliance in a waste and recycling environment.
Responsibilities
- Take full operational control of the site during the nightshift
- Ensure all waste streams are processed safely and efficiently
- Deliver RDF and SRF production targets while minimising downtime
- Manage labour, plant and resources to meet operational demands
- Prioritise workloads and respond quickly to operational challenges
- Champion a strong safety‑first culture across the site
- Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation, permits and site procedures
- Authorise and enforce safe systems of work and permit‑to‑work processes
- Lead incident response, investigations and corrective actions where required
- Stop work where safety, compliance or product quality is compromised
- Ensure RDF and SRF products meet required specifications
- Monitor contamination levels and take corrective action where needed
- Ensure accurate documentation, load compliance and traceability
- Lead, motivate and manage all nightshift staff
- Manage attendance, performance and conduct in line with company standards
- Deliver training, coaching and mentoring to support team performance
- Ensure plant and machinery are operated safely and correctly
- Oversee fault reporting and maintenance coordination
- Maintain high housekeeping standards across the site
- Complete and review shift reports and production data
- Deliver clear handovers to day shift management
Qualifications
- Management or supervisory experience in waste, recycling, heavy industry or a similar operational environment
- Strong health and safety knowledge
- Confidence to make decisions independently during nightshift operations
- Practical, hands‑on approach to solving operational issues
- Ability to manage people, performance, attendance and standards
- Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver clear handovers
- Good attention to detail when completing reports, records and compliance documentation
- RDF or SRF experience would be an advantage
- WAMITAB / COTC would be desirable
- IOSH Managing Safely would be desirable
- Mobile plant experience such as loading shovel, 360 excavator or FLT would be desirable
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