Shift Manager

Company: Start People Ltd
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Location: Darwen
Job Description:

Production Shift Manager (Shadsworth Business Park)

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Rotating 6am – 2pm, 2pm – 10pm and 10pm – 6am

Salary £51,000 per annum

Our Blackburn based manufacturing client are currently hiring for an experienced Shift Manager to join their team on a full time, permanent basis.

The Shift Manager is responsible for coordinating operational resources (machines, materials, people and out of hours engineering) in order to achieve planned/ targets for production output, product quality, BRC requirements, environment and health & safety.

Role responsibilities

* Accident and incident investigations, being a proactive leader of behavioural safety

* Liaise with Quality departments in relation to complains / internal issues.

* Ensure staff understand importance of cost of quality and hygiene

* Provide leadership to the shift team/supervisors, appropriate deployment of resources in accordance with production priorities

* Complete 1:1’s, appraisals and team meetings in a timely manner

* Day to day responsibility for the welfare of all shop floor personnel

* Attendance management, completing return to work documents, disciplinary and grievance hearings

* Delivery of the production plan in a timely manner

Skills and experience

* Experience of leading a production team, ideally within manufacturing.

* Be able to identify and resolve basic machine related problems. xwzovoh

* Demonstrate being H&S competent in a safe working environment.

* Certificate in leadership management or previous engineering background – desirable

* IOSH or NEBOSH trained – desirable

Please apply now to be considered for this fantastic opportunity…

Posted: May 30th, 2026