Shift Coordinator (Warehouse)
Job Description
Job title: Shift Coordinator (Warehouse)
Company: GlaxoSmithKline
Job description: GSK’s Manufacturing Site at Ware has an opportunity available for a Shift Co-Ordinator in our Warehouse facility. The Warehouse Operator team sits within the Logistics division at the site and is responsible for performing all tasks associated with the movement of materials into, within and onwards from the Ware Manufacturing site.
Reporting to a Warehouse Team Leader you will work as a flexible, motivated member of the Warehouse team, contributing to the team’s aims (of satisfying Customer Service, Safety, Cost and Quality targets) ensuring smooth & efficient operation of the Warehouse. You will be responsible for deploying available staff, all the time creating and maintaining a ‘Quality’ and ‘Environment, Health & Safety (EHS)’ culture (ensuring that the Warehouse is compliant and audit ready at all times).
Responsibilities include:
- Accountability for the functional operation and record measures for the area and report daily on key metrics to Warehouse Team management highlighting any deviations and reasons. Following through on resulting actions in a timely fashion
- First line response and investigator to deviations
- Supporting change and continuous improvement projects for Warehousing, Distribution and Production Streams
- Participating in Performance Management processes (GPS), problem solving, standard work/5S and improvement activities
- Ensuring accurate and relevant information clearly communicated at Shift Handovers.
- Resource management across the Warehouse aiding efficiency in all areas.
- Working with the Warehouse management team to continuously improve the capability of the team.
- Being highly visible during times in the shift when there is more risk for issues, providing guidance and resolving problems as they arise.
- To be the Warehouse responsible person (out of office hours and weekends if required).
Shift Pattern: This role is a shift role which currently operates on DANF (24/5) shift-pattern (which includes night-work). Shifts are 12-hour shifts and operate on Days (circa 7:00 to 19:00) and Nights (circa 19:00 to 7:00) working on a circa 3 (day or night) shift rotation (Monday to Friday).
Please be aware that as the Shift Co-Ordinator you will need to be flexible. Up to 50% of hours worked are outside normal hours, requiring a high degree of self-reliance and ability to assess the impact of non-standard safety and/or quality events.
Please Note: The Warehouse is subject to Known-Consignor status and is subject to stringent external audits. It is therefore a requirement of pre-employment screening for the successful applicant to have references that date back 5 years.
About You:
As this role is multi-faceted and includes a high-level of responsibility, you must be a flexible and participative in your management style. You will be able to demonstrate how your management approach will empower your team by involving them (including objective setting, performance evaluation and improving processes). You will be a self-motivated person who has experience of working in a complex manufacturing site. You will be able to demonstrate the ability and the willingness to step up or down as required to provide day-to-day cover and support to your team (including your peer-group and your line-manager as required). You will have experience in managing deviations and compliance within your area.
You will have strong line-management and people skills, as well as a proven ability to drive performance. It is imperative in this role that you demonstrate an ability to drive common-thinking, with a complete focus on providing solutions. You will be resilient and calm under pressure. You will need to be persuasive, have a strong continuous improvement mindset, able to think outside the box and have proven experience dealing with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups. Ideally you will have worked in a highly regulated-industry.
About Ware Manufacturing Site:
Medicines at Ware are presented as either Respiratory devices or in Oral Solid Dose form. The site holds a unique position in our network as the only site responsible for launching the company’s pipeline of new medicines in these dose forms.
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – Monday 18th of March 2024 (COB).
Basic Qualifications:
Relevant experience
Full understanding of Good Manufacturing Practice and EHS standards
Evidence of managing Improvement activities
Benefits:
GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees, which include, but are not limited to:
Competitive base Salary
Shift allowance and contractual overtime
Annual bonus based on company performance
Opportunities to partake in on-the-job training courses
Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership (accreditations and professional bodies)
Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
Employee recognition programmes
If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage .
Why Us?
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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