Junior Shift Manager

Junior Shift Manager

The G**gle of Food Manufacturing

£40,000

Back shift

The Company

If Google was a food manufacturer, it’d be these guys. It would also smell nicer and have cooler advertising.

They make food so good that for the longest time you couldn’t get it anywhere apart from Waitrose.

And when you imagine a factory, if you’re like me, you’ll probably imagine some dark Satanic Victorian mill. Well, if Google was a food manufacturer, it probably wouldn’t be working out of a Victorian mill.

And these guys don’t.

They manufacture their products in an absolutely stunning, purpose built, award-worthy manufacturing campus. The canteen is like a restaurant. The place is sleek and clean.

And they’re ridiculously focussed on being an employer where people actually wake up and want to come to work. And actually want to build a career there. 

The Job

The business has really well drilled line leaders. They’re well trained, they understand the business, and they’ll be managing the manufacturing on your shift.

Your job is to develop these guys (and gals etc). To support them. Coach them. If you’ve done a bit of lean manufacturing, then you’ll be working with YOUR line manager to put in place lean projects and improve the place itself.

You’ll be coached, developed and you will coach and develop.

What you probably won’t like

One. It’s working the backshift. You’ll start around 4pm, and you’ll finish around midnight. Some days it’ll be a bit of a later start, and a bit of a later finish.

Two. Things happen fast. Really fast. It can be a bit overwhelming at first.

Three. The standards are really high. Not only are things fast, but the food they make is pretty much the most expensive thing you can get within the category. Which means you can’t cut corners. Which can be annoying. Particularly after nearly eight hours work at almost midnight.

But it is what it is. 

You

I’ll know if you’ve read this from your CV. Or at least, I’ll know if you’ve read this and you actually want this job from this bit.

If you send your CV in and it’s got a LONG ol’ list of responsibilities, then it’s a no. Warehouse Manager: Managing the warehouse. Checking stock. Managing a team. Doing one to ones.

I know what a Warehouse Manager does. You know what a Warehouse Manager does. So there’s really no need to waste half of a CV writing it out.

If you’re the right person, you’ll have achieved things in work. You might have made things go faster. Or reduced the waste in a process. Or made something more efficient.

Point these things out.

Not what your day to day is.

If you’ve achieved somethings, and it’s in manufacturing, or warehouse, or something fast paced, and you really want to work here – then apply.

If you *REALLY* want a shot at the job, then write a cover letter saying why you’re right for it.

What you like about it, etc.

And if you’re not good with the shifts – then this isn’t the job for you. Because the purpose of the job is to support a team of line leaders working these shifts, and it won’t really work if you aren’t there. 

Finally – this isn’t the place for a grim, steely determination. I mean, that’s all well and good, but the whole business is built on people who uplift each other, and are at the very least upbeat. So, if your friends cross the street to avoid you, or every time you see a mirror there’s someone frowning back at you, this might not be for you.