Vitacress Real is one of the leading herbal specialists in Europe. With our young and fast growing company, our mission is to let people enjoy food with natural and healthy seasonings.

Herbs are grown all year round, in order to ensure that we can offer consistent quality throughout the year. We like to grow in places where the product grows in the most natural and sustainable way. That is why we grow in the Netherlands, Germany, England, Spain and Portugal, among others. At our location in Venlo, these freshly grown herbs are then packaged for the European market and international consumers.

When you enter our building in Venlo you can taste the freshness and energy of Vitacress Real. You become infected with the passion for the product. Central to this are four values that can be felt by all colleagues. We Grow, We Care, We Inspire and We Smile.

• We have in total 4 Shift Leaders Production responsible for leading the operational production team (160 employees). Together with 1 other Shift Leader Production you are responsible for managing the total shift (around 80 employees).
• Important elements of your job are onboarding, coaching, developing, and training our (new) Line Leaders, Operators, and Production Workers.
• On daily basis you check the staff planning of our production lines.
• Monitoring health and safety rules at the shop floor.
• Continuous improvement is part of the job. You contribute to Kaizen/Scrum projects.
• Implementing and monitoring 5S on the packing department. You are a strong ambassador!

• You lead our daily whiteboard meetings
• Making sure that our orders are prepared in time.
• Responsible for a good communication and information flow between production and office (Top-down + Bottom up)
• Reporting technical deviations. You are in close contact with our department Technical Services.
• You have a strong focus on (product) quality (packs and raw materials) to make sure that our quality level is super high!
• You work in two shifts, monitoring overall production processes and the performance.

Together with the production team, you start the shift by making sure there is a flying start. Within minutes of the shift start all lines are running properly. While going through the production planning and daily analysis, you enjoy a cup of fresh mint tea. The analysis of the day before showed that line 11 did not perform as expected. You make an analysis of the cause and plan the necessary actions. It turns out that line 11 loses too much time during a changeover. You therefore involve the Operators and our Continuous Improvement Coordinator, Tomasz, to make a short improvement plan. You ensure that it is implemented that same day.

Then you do a round on the floor. In the meantime, you monitor the performance of all lines.

During lunch you can enjoy a delicious cup of soup and challenge 2 colleagues during a table tennis match. After lunch you have a one-on-one half year evaluation meeting with our Line Leaders. The Line Leaders made great progress and therefore deserve a nice compliment and a good review. Together you process the next development steps for the coming six months.

At the end of the shift, you check whether there have been any problems during production that are important to know for other departments. You make a short note, so that you can discuss some action points the next day during the daily "Operational Sunrise meeting". Just before you go home, you go through next week's production schedule with our specialist, Anna.

• Showing entrepreneurship is one of your strongest qualities. You strive for the maximum achievable. This gives you energy!
• We are looking for a decisive leader with a critical eye.
• Strong drive, enthusiasm, and problem-solving ability!
• You are experienced in leading a production team and preferably within a food environment.
• You are a leader with strong coaching, training, and management skills.
• Focus on quality, results and continuous improvement is self-evident to you.
• You enjoy working closely with different departments (for example Technical Services, Continuous Improvement, Logistics and Production Planning)
• You speak the English (Level B1) and Polish language. Speaking Dutch is a nice to have.
• Working in shifts is no issue for you 😊.

Together with your 4 colleague Shift Leaders Production and our People Specialist Operations, you ensure that the operation runs smoothly! The desired KPIs are achieved and the whole production team is motivated and driven to deliver top performance every day. You report to the Production Coordinator and together you work on improving the way of working and the development of the team.

We Grow. An enormous drive, an enormous growth. Since the start of Vitacress Real about 12 years ago, we have been experiencing enormous growth every year. We will continue to achieve this ambition in the coming years. And we do this together. Our team consists of people who want to get the most out of themselves and their teammates.

We Inspire. We value initiative and input and believe that this makes our organization better. There is also plenty of room for this. After all, together we achieve more. Vitacress Real is active in a niche market. There is a lot that can be optimized, and your input is important. You are a continuous success part of the process.

We Care. We believe growth and development are essential. Furthermore, we want to take good care of people. So, you can also enjoy a delicious fresh soup with the best quality herbs every day, together with your colleagues! People work hard, but social talk is also stimulated by working up a sweat before or after work in the equipped fitness room. Or do you prefer winning the table tennis battles?

We Smile. A great working atmosphere where hard work and having fun go hand-in-hand. Our annually recurring Social Calendar is filled with fun team events.

We look forward to your CV! If you still have doubts or do you have questions about what makes this position so great? Then call us (Marlijn de Bruin, 0611848647). For more information about our organization, we refer you to our website, which is worth a look.