Shiftleader production

As shift leader, you have final responsibility for all production activities within your team. You will work in a dynamic production environment, where every day you ensure that a team of operators makes the tastiest salads in a safe, qualitative and efficient way.

• You watch over safety, quality, hygiene and profitability of the production organisation and embed these values in your employees.
• You manage a team of about 60 production workers, with the help of team supervisors whom you coach and supervise intensively.
• You provide a personal development plan for each employee, on the basis of which necessary training is provided.
• You conduct performance and absence interviews with your employees to further develop the organisation.
•  You monitor KPIs, which you use to monitor daily performance and also follow up that there is a positive trend over time.
• You will participate in daily production meetings with all production-related departments.
• You are the point of contact for your team with other departments (service prevention, quality department, planning, technical department, HR, logistics, etc.), and help solve ad hoc problems on a daily basis.
• You identify improvement opportunities. You pull small and medium-sized improvement projects together with your own or a multifunctional team. You develop the project from idea to follow-up after implementation.
• You provide communication to your employees through board meetings.

• You have a higher (technical) education or equivalent through experience.
• You have at least 5 years' experience in an equivalent role, experience in a food company production environment is definitely a plus.
• Your first focus is safety, followed by food safety.
• Knowledge of risk analysis, HACCP, IFS and lean manufacturing is a plus.
• You are PC literate and familiar with common office applications (outlook, word, excel).
• You are a communicative hands-on people manager who can motivate your team to achieve pre-set targets.
• You think and act result-oriented in terms of solutions and improvements.
• You are independent, decisive and show initiative.
• You feel comfortable in a rapidly changing work environment. You get energy from constantly seeking improvements. You are flexible and stress-resistant.
• You will help build an open feedback culture within the company.

Our client operates in the food sector.

• Full-time contract of indefinite duration in a shift system, premium 10% (early/late)
• Career opportunities
• Interesting salary package with a wide range of fringe benefits; electric company car, mobile phone + subscription, laptop, eco vouchers of €250/year for full-time employment, meal vouchers of €8/day worked, hospitalisation insurance, group insurance, annual bonus.
• Free fruit, bread, salad spreads and hot drinks during breaks.
• Extra's: end-of-year gift, Saint Nicholas gift for children up to 12 years of age, one seniority for every 5 years of seniority, bicycle leasing option.