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Shift CoordinatorUnilever · Boksburg, South Africa
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Shift Coordinator

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-21 Boksburg, South Africa Hybrid Manufacturing Transport Logistics
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 20,000 GBP–35,000 GBP/mo

About the Company

Join us as: Shift Coordinator Function: Supply Chain Reports to: Unit Manager Scope: Local Location: Boksburg Terms & Conditions: Full-time JOB PURPOSE This role exists for someone who coordinates the team activities to achieve plant safety, quality and production goals. Facilitates teamwork and helps build an effective work relationship with other shifts. Supports members in team coordinator roles, helps resolve operational and personnel issues, supports the training certification process and resolves staffing resource issues. Manage daily production issues, line efficiency improvements, communicating and enforcing policy and procedural compliance and assuring effective use of temporary workforce and be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters - for people and the planet. Because here, we don't just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

Responsibilities

  • ● Supervise and coordinate activities of production staff during the shift: Process / Operation, Start Up / Shutdown Procedure and Oversees the safe and efficient start-up and shutdown of the factory
  • ● Resolve operational issues and escalate complex problems to management.
  • ● Material Availability: Ensures the upstream Batch System (Storage tanks etc.) is set-up with correct ingredients and quantity to meet the production plan
  • ● Operation: Ensures that machinery and equipment in area of responsibility is operated, maintained and changed over efficiently as per SOP
  • ● Engineering: Drives development of operators to perform autonomous maintenance and inspection tasks equipment as per schedule including minor maintenance (i.e. replacing belts, chains, hoses, covers, knives etc
  • ● Conduct shift handovers and communicate key updates to incoming teams.
  • ● Enforce safety protocols and ensure compliance with company policies.
  • ● Resolve operational issues and escalate complex problems to management.
  • ● Responsible for accurate approval of T&A hrs
  • ● Manages absenteeism and overtime for the team
  • ● Responsible to holding his team accountable on production activies and expectations
  • ● REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • ● National Diploma in Engineering or Engineering Technical qualification

Requirements

  • ● Strong leadership and management experience of a large team who work shifts
  • ● years working experience in manufacturing environment
  • ● Sound strategic and operational Production management experience
  • ● Strong Industrial Relations experience unionized environment
  • ● Support, guide and drive OHS and SHE regulations and standards and ensure compliance
  • ● Problem Solving and Decision Making
  • ● Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities.
  • ● Production Planning & scheduling
  • ● Computer literate & Usage of APPs
  • ● Supply Chain Agility
  • ● Continuous Improvement
  • ● Ability to stakeholder management & Influence
  • ● Unilever Behaviors
  • ● Care deeply: caring deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people's growth and development, and our impact on the planet. You care about your performance, to a point where it hurts when you don't win. Always brings their best self. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations and build empathy for others. Sets high standards for themselves. Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside of Unilever.
  • ● Focus on what counts: We set clear and stretching goals and recognise maximum performance impact. Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.
  • ● Stay three steps ahead: We think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident - anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends to beat the competition. Approaches delivery with an iterative and incremental, test - do - learn approach. Has an owner's mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • ● Deliver with excellence : We deliver everything we do with excellence and pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account - always finding a way to do what we said we will do. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • ● Always brings their best self. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations and build empathy for others. Sets high standards for themselves.
  • ● Enables people within an organization or outside an organization to engage with each other productively and efficiently.
  • ● Inspires the energy needed to win and grow. Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Has an owner's mindset, using data and insight to make decisions. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.