Making Plant Leader

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JOB TITLE: Making Plant Leader

JOB LOCATION: Port Sunlight, UK

About Unilever

Competitive salary with other generous bene

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

Our Supply Chain teams play a vital role in getting our goods to consumers; from sourcing raw materials to manufacturing and delivering the end product. You could be finding a new way to get 12,000 litres of ice cream across the desert without it melting; or designing a more efficient distribution network to enable us to store and deliver our products sustainably to our customers. Our Global Supply Chain includes approximately 100,000 employees who work with over 70,000 suppliers and 1.5 million farmers.  We manage a logistics network that transports across a distance of over 1.5 billion km a year.  

In the UK & Ireland, we are home to the production of PG Tips, Magnum, Pot Noodle, Persil and many more. Looking forward, we want to embrace the digital revolution in order to build a more agile, integrated and synchronized Supply Chain.  Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world and see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do. There’s always a new challenge to tackle and our people have the opportunity to make a big impact every day on a local level, across Europe and the world. 

The role is based in Port Sunlight, Liverpool, where you can find our offices, factories, and Research & Development Centre at your fingertips. Our purpose, to make sustainable living commonplace, is rooted in the history of the Port Sunlight site. It’s a thread that connects us to our founder, Lord Lever, and his social mission to improve health, hygiene, and livelihoods.

Role Purpose

As the Making Plant Leader, you will lead and coach your team members on shift to enable them to consistently deliver outstanding safety, standards, and service. This dynamic role requires process engineering capabilities to further unlock the full potential of the Personal Care make plant, enabling improved capability and capacities. You will leverage new digital and automation technology and enable service potential and play a critical leadership role at Port Sunlight.

Responsibilities

• You will have a have a direct (hour by hour) impact on Port Sunlight’s ability to achieve and maintain outstanding safety, standards, and service.
• You will lead on projects that attack factory losses in order to drive continuous improvement.
• Provide immediate line leadership to team members on shift, including shift engineers when necessary.
• Ensure safety, standards and service are enforced and maintained across the factory during the shift period.
• Lead and coach team members on shift to ensure they are enabled to deliver outstanding safety, standards and service.
• Engage and inspire team members in the PSL/factory targets by sharing the vision and priorities to help team members to understand how they add value.
• Support and embed the work of the lead technical operator, process improvement leader and technical skills trainer to ensure team members on shift are working to WCM methodology. Identify losses within shift and engage the relevant specialist or tools to close the gap.
• Consistently and flawlessly comply with factory operating system (FOS), ensuring all processes are completed efficiently and effectively.
  
  

About You

• You will have an engineering Qualification (in Chemical/Process) and ideally GCSEs, O-levels or equivalent, in Maths, English & Science
• You are experienced in an engineering, manufacturing or technical environment.
• You will be able to demonstrate a flexible and adaptable leadership style/approach, leading and championing team achievements
• You have the ability to connect others to bigger Unilever/PSL picture and create meaning for others
• You are an approachable leader with experience conducting effective coaching conversations and providing feedback to others
• You will continually question the status quo, stimulate thinking and support and challenges others
  
  

What We Offer

Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland. We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment. We are developing brands for people’s lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace.

Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are really passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a sustainable difference.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.