Job Description:

Are you a Production Team Leader looking for a new opportunity where you’ll be given the opportunity to set the pace, shape the culture, and drive results? If so, this is the role for you! The successful candidate will take full ownership of their team’s people, performance, and quality, constantly looking for ways to improve and raise the bar.

Success is measured across a dynamic scorecard, from health and safety to operational performance, quality, productivity, efficiency, and team engagement. Every metric tells a story, and you will ensure it’s one of progress and impact.

Deeply aligned with the business’s strategic goals, the Team Leader turns vision into action—guiding their team to deliver meaningful results in Production and foster a culture of Change Management. This alignment is brought to life through clear objectives, focused goals, and performance measures that keep everyone moving forward together.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Leadership:

• Accountable for team’s output and achievement of production and quality targets. Continually monitor, assess, understand progress throughout the shift and be on top of the detail.
• Plan, organise, prioritise effectively, and manage issues promptly.
• OEE short interval schedule review of and action to be taken where required to recover in the event of failure to meet target.
• Work collaboratively and co-operate with other Team Leaders, managers, teams, and departments to achieve business priorities, resolve issues, and achieve results in a cross-functional holistic way.
• Per Shift team performance achievement against plan, target recovery plan.
• Promote a two-way feedback loop where Team Leaders can escalate issues when required

Continuous Improvement & Lean Manufacturing:

• Lead and engage the team in actions to identify, implement, and maintain targeted improvements in ways of working.
• Understand and use appropriately a range of relevant tools and techniques to achieve continuous and ongoing incremental improvements in performance, productivity, output and reduce waste, including SMED & Flow optimisation, Standard work & operational discipline, waste reduction, process stability & data led performance improvement.

Leadership, Engagement & Team Development:

• Lead, engage, motivate, and develop the team to achieve a range of shared team goals and individual objectives, which contribute to the achievement of wider business objectives.
• The size of team and area of responsibility may vary between areas and may fluctuate from time to time as some areas of headcount are volume dependent.
• To provide the infrastructure required to achieve Team KPIs, targets and business goals Team Leaders have Craftsperson’s, Cell and Line Leaders directly reporting to them.
• Team leaders are accountable to manage and motivate all members of their team, engaging them in the achievement of the team’s shared goals and objectives.
• Ensure all team members receive regular team and 1:1 individual support to review performance, provide support and direction, and exchange feedback.  
• Understand and use SMART objectives, a coaching style and address under-performance, as well as recognising great performance.
• Champion the company values and uphold them in their own actions and behaviours and with the team, as part of encouraging a positive, open, and professional working culture.
• Lead weekly Toolbox meetings with the team, share relevant information from Roadblock meetings and other business communications, particularly where team members do not have access to company emails or other e-communication.
• Involved in recruitment and selection, onboarding, probation and ongoing review processes, agreeing employee objectives, training plans, reviews and 1:1s and feedback.
• Develop and implement training and skills plans for the team and individuals.
• Arrange/ensure team members receive the required training and development. No task should be undertaken without the correct training and competency sign-off.
• Contribute to resource planning in line with predicted production volumes.
• Take accountability for own learning and professional development, participate in training, learning opportunities, updates to keep skills current.

Health, Safety, Quality & Compliance:

• Ensure that team members work safely and demonstrate a consistent, high level of compliance with, and understanding of, the relevant H&S policies, procedures and practises for their role and area of work.
• Responsible for training and awareness of operating procedures, risk assessment, safety audits, PPE adherence, incident, and accident reporting.
• Ensure that team consistently produces work that meets the expected standards of quality as set out in the company’s Quality Management System and Quality Procedure Index. This includes, but is not limited to, team members being suitably trained and following defined quality standards and procedures, using the most up to date versions.
• Have understanding, and maintaining standards of, set-up verification, dimensional check sheets, scrap and root cause analysis, drive and manage scrap reduction and actions to improve quality.
• Ensure that the team complies with shift patterns, break and lunch times, timekeeping, time-off requests etc and all people-oriented admin is completed in a timely and accurate fashion
• Take a lead in People-oriented processes – leading investigations, disciplinary and grievance matters, quality, and scrap issues. Seek support and guidance from HR as required.
• The Quality Procedure Index is used to track and evaluate the effectiveness of the company’s quality management processes within our QMS framework. It is used to assess the overall quality of our products, service, and processes, and help identify areas for improvement.
• The Team Leader is responsible and accountable for ensuring compliance with Company procedures as set out in both the Quality Management System and Quality Procedure Index.

Essential Experience, Knowledge & Candidate Attributes Required:

Demonstrable experience of leading, engaging and developing a high performing team to achieve business results, e.g. a range of weekly/daily productivity & quality KPIs gained from a Machine Tool / Precision Engineering background.

A self-starter with a strong sense of urgency who uses sound judgement to make data-driven decisions and set priorities.

Experience of managing and ensuring compliance to H&S policies and procedures.

Experience using problem-solving techniques to drive real-world improvements. (5 Whys, 8D’s etc), coupled with experience of implementing and leading Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement activity.

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Qualified (or willing to train) in IOSH Managing Safely.

Ability to use sound judgment and decisions based on available information.

Please note, our client does not have a skilled worker sponsorship licence therefore to apply for this role candidates must have the immediate right to work in the UK. The successful candidate will be required to work a weekly alternating shift pattern comprising of Monday to Friday 06:00 to 14:00 and Monday to Friday 14:00 to 22:00.

If you are an experienced Production Team Leader looking for a new challenge, please submit an up-to-date CV by using the ‘apply’ button.

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