Shift Manager

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Shift Manager (working on  continental shift pattern – days/nights)

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide.  Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in Milpitas, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. 

For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

Summary of job function:

• Manage team leaders and operators/ technicians.
• Co-ordinate daily activities with other Operational Departments.
• Ensuring shift targets and plans are met and driving teams to achieve KPI’s.
• Ensuring an effective Shift handover is given to the oncoming shift manager highlighting key issues, constraints, moves and priorities etc.
• Day to day supervising of technician teams, to include holiday planning, absence management etc.
• Lead and conduct appraisal of the technician teams.
• Co-ordinate headcount resources to meet productivity, output and quality whilst always maintaining a safety-first attitude.
• Lead team meetings and general communication.
• Ensuring start of shift all technicians know the priorities and targets, equipment issues. restrictions and priorities.
• Driving the teams job knowledge to include technician level development and process improvement activities.
• Close working relationship with Manufacturing Manager, End to End Production Controllers and lead technicians.
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules.

Experience required

• Background on high volume manufacturing
• Experience of managing large teams.
• Experience in Technology environments would be noce to have

Job Challenges:

• Effectively communicate with colleagues at all levels of the business
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement using Kaizen and other tools
• Leading and responsible point of contact for designated shift
• Achieving KPI’s/targets and driving the team to achieve KPI’s
• Gaining knowledge of process flows and tools in relevant area’s
• Ensuring EHS compliance
• Working with Manufacturing team to resolve staff or manufacturing issues
• Communicating and working across a large and fast paced team
• Ensuring Promis MES system and associated equipment trackers are fully utilized by all

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.