We are looking for an Operations Leader to join our Workshop Team based in Coventry.
The Operations Leader’s role is to lead a cell team, including, but not limited to apprentices, technicians, and Manufacturing Engineers in an R&D production facility. They will ensure that their facility operates to the appropriate processes and behaviours in order that performance for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery meet or exceed agreed targets.
Main Responsibilities
1. Ensure compliance of all appropriate processes and act as a role model for desirable behaviour.
2. Accountable for the cell team’s health and safety.
3. Manage the team’s absence and behaviours to ensure that they meet the expectations of the MTC, including performance management where appropriate.
4. Inspire a culture of continuous improvement and empower team members to resolve issues independently.
5. Empowered to stop work and tasks if the behaviour or process is inappropriate or unsafe.
6. Overall day-to-day management of the Cell schedule and its performance against commitments for schedule and cost while ensuring that quality and safety requirements are maintained.
7. Influence the strategic capability requirements for the future development of the cell’s machines and people.
Person Specification
1. Significant and proven experience and technical expertise in a manufacturing discipline.
2. Experience in managing teams to achieve business objectives.
3. Understanding and experience of implementing Lean manufacturing principles within an operational cell.
4. Ability to translate customer requirements into a deployed capability installation.
5. High level of technical and quality process knowledge and the ability to apply this knowledge to practical problems.
6. Good oral communication skills and confidence in dealing with a range of people, including clients, contractors, designers, directors, and plant operators.
7. Precise and concise written communication skills.
8. Ability to lead a team through ambiguous or challenging situations.
9. Ability to work under pressure.
10. Project management skills such as stakeholder management, organisation, planning, requirement capture, etc.
For more information, please see the job description attached.
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