Title:  Shift Lead

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

We are currently recruiting for a Shift Lead to join us at our Severnside Dairy

The purpose of this role is to develop and empower our people, creating a high performing team. Enabling the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.

Salary: Competitive

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off (2 days 2 nights)   

Location: Severnside

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Creating and developing development plans
• Create succession pathways both up through, and across the organisation
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills
• Go, look, see issues by visiting the workstations when called upon
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to problem solve
• Enabling team to create and deliver operational excellence opportunities aligned to OGSM
• Encourage others to seek out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these
• Drives operational excellence opportunities through team
• Supports team to demonstrate operational excellence contribution through PDP process
• Looks and encourages others to find ‘waste’ opportunities in everything that we do
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of the team, dealing with any employee relations issues
• Create purpose and direction around OGSM deliverables
• Collaboratively work with other teams to improve our business
• Ensure own activities are aligned to overall business objectives and know how current performance impacts the bottom line
• Utilises all available opportunities, enabling others to improve the way we do things

Compensation & Benefits:

• In return for your contributions to our success, Müller offers a competitive salary package.
• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• 25 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan (single)
• Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform

Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ