Join us at GPN and inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals!

At Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN), our mission is to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals! We are a global leader in the performance nutrition industry and have a portfolio of ten brands, including Optimum Nutrition (ON), BSN, Isopure, SlimFast, Body&Fit, Nutramino, Think!, and Amazing Grass.

Our brands, including the top three performance nutrition brands, are sold in more than 100 markets worldwide. With growing global interest in healthy, active lifestyles, our products appeal to a variety of consumers with a wide range of fitness motivations. They demand new product formats and have a growing appetite for healthy snacking and plant-based protein. Increasingly, they shop online for their health and fitness needs. We’re an agile business led by brands and inspired by consumers. We are a values-led organisation focused on driving sustainable business performance.

Headquartered in Dublin, with a workforce based across multiple locations, including London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Mumbai, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Melbourne, Illinois, and California. GPN employs more than 2,000 people globally.
Glanbia Performance Nutrition has enjoyed consistent double-digit growth which has been achieved both organically and through acquisition. Today, GPN has approximately $1.2B in revenue and 2,500 employees worldwide. With state-of-the-art production facilities occupying over 500,000 square feet of operating space, GPN is the only sports nutrition company to manufacture and market items in every product category.

We are currently recruiting for a number of Operations Shift Managers to join our team in GPN Middlesbrough.

Join us on our journey today!

The opportunity where you will make an impact:
Reporting to the Production Manager, The Operations Shift Manager is employed to manage, coach and develop the overall effectiveness of the factory teams through the Operations Line Leads (OLL)*. They are accountable for ensuring a safe and effective work environment through development of and compliance with supporting systems. Their core responsibility is to achieve or exceed the Departmental KPIs covering Safety, Quality, Cost and Efficiency.

Ensuring teams skills are managed by OLLs and improved using appropriate tools and ensuring training is delivered.
Mentoring and developing the OLL’s in all aspects of their role.
Managing human resources to deliver the production & training plans
Building and delivering plans to reduce material variance & yield loss
Developing and delivering yield loss reduction plans
Lead and develop teams to deliver effective of problem solving to impact department level metrics
Coaching OLL’s in basic problem solving tools and techniques
Reviewing visual management systems to drive actions
Reviewing performance metric KPI 's at agreed cadence (shiftly /daily/weekly) - OEE, CTP, Q, EHS, YIELD, MUV
Collaborate with other OSM’s to mitigate performance differences across teams and deliver continuous improvement actions
Deliver Dept. strategy & pulse survey actions, to deliver objectives through goal cascade across

Key Challenges and Success Measures:
Development of OLLs skills and behaviours
Manage the development and provision of housekeeping standards and task lists
Leading for housekeeping standards improvement
Process confirmation of compliance to standards
Improving workplace safety through hazard management
Leading SEAT meeting to temperature check safety culture
Availability and applicability of SOPs for all department tasks and use of Operational work diagnosis
Monitoring and management of Material usage across the department
Managing data accuracy and interrogating data systems to share key learning
Managing basic problem solving systems and reviewing effectiveness
Monitoring and managing visual management systems effectiveness
Reviewing performance metrics at departmental meetings and driving performance through actions
Effecting 2 way communication through team meetings

What you will bring to GPN:
Minimum 5 years manufacturing experience, preferably in Food/ Beverage in a equivalent position
Demonstrated ability to drive performance through people
Professional Qualification desirable.
People management – including performance management, mentoring & coaching skills
Lean Manufacturing tools (problem solving, 5S, data management & interrogation
Organising Skills
Enthusiasm and Energy – can do attitude
The work is shop floor based and will require a degree of physical fitness to cope with a fast paced multi-level factory environment

What we would like to offer you: The opportunity to shape your career in our global organisation that is championing the healthy lifestyle movement! Our Smart Working model advocates wellbeing by providing you with a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance. Discount on our GPN products and access to our nutritional experts through our Sports Nutrition School!
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability status.

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.

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