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Join The Magnum Ice Cream Company!

Scope: Corlu IC/Local

Location: Corlu -Tekirdag

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company.​ A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.​ Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.​

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers.​ Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.​  

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.  We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.  

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.  

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.​ 

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you! 

JOB PURPOSE

TMICC is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  If you have a passion to work in a dynamic and challenging work environment then this role is just for you! We are seeking a dedicated Shift Engineer for our Ice Cream Factory located in Corlu, Tekirdag. The factory operates seven days a week with three shifts, and the Shift Engineer will rotate shifts on a weekly basis.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

Shift Management:

• Prior experience in managing or supervising shift workers, especially in manufacturing or production settings, ensuring smooth operations and adherence to production schedules.
• Ability to handle shift transitions, ensuring continuity of work, and managing handovers effectively.

Production Experience:

• Background in overseeing production processes, ensuring that operations are efficient and that output meets quality standards.
• Familiarity with production planning, troubleshooting production issues, and ensuring production targets are met.

Team Leadership:

• Experience in leading blue-collar staff, managing their daily tasks, and ensuring that they adhere to safety, quality, and performance standards.

Educational Background:

• A bachelor’s degree or vocational school diploma in engineering, industrial management, or a related field.
• Alternatively, relevant technical qualifications or certifications in manufacturing, production management, or engineering may also be considered.

Language Skills:

• Proficiency in Turkish is likely required due to the nature of the workplace. English proficiency may be an advantage, particularly if interacting with international management or teams.

Preferred Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in Food Manufacturing
• Knowledge of Safety and Quality Standards:
• Familiarity with food safety regulations (e.g., HACCP, ISO certifications) and the ability to enforce quality control protocols on the floor.

Skills

• Supervision: Ability to manage and direct blue-collar staff, ensuring they meet production targets, adhere to safety regulations, and maintain quality standards.
• Motivation and Mentoring: Motivating team members, providing guidance, and addressing issues effectively to ensure high team performance.
• Clear and Effective Communication: Ability to clearly communicate with both blue-collar workers and management, ensuring expectations and issues are understood.
• Reporting: Strong written communication skills to prepare detailed shift reports, production updates, and any issues for management.
• Quick Decision Making: Ability to make informed, efficient decisions during the shift, especially when unexpected problems or delays arise.
• Shift Planning and Organization: Efficiently managing your time during the shift to ensure all tasks are completed according to the production schedule.
• Prioritization: Being able to prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance, especially in a fast-paced environment.
• Production Process Understanding: Knowledge of production systems, machinery, and processes to monitor and optimize production.
• Quality Control: Ability to implement and oversee quality control processes, ensuring that production meets set standards and regulatory requirements.
• Safety Awareness: Ensuring adherence to health, safety, and environmental regulations within the factory.
• Mechanical and Technical Troubleshooting: Understanding of machinery and production lines to quickly identify issues and work toward solutions, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Union Interaction: Understanding of how to work in a unionized environment, dealing with potential conflicts, and ensuring compliance with labor agreements.
• Negotiation: Ability to communicate effectively with union representatives and resolve issues professionally.
• Flexible and Agile: Ability to quickly adapt to changing production needs, shift patterns, and unforeseen challenges.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

As publicly announced, Unilever will separate its Ice Cream business which is expected by the end of 2025. This role will transfer to the new Ice Cream company.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. 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. 

For the recruitment of this position, we would like to emphasize that local conditions apply to the position.

ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?

To apply, you must do so online. Please do not forget to upload your CV and a motivation letter.  

Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date to provide you with an update on the status of your application.

Disclaimer

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unilever is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 

We take pleasure seriously. Join the Ice Cream team now!

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Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.