Location: Lutterworth
Hours: Mon-Fri - 13:30 - 22:00
Contract type: Full time, Permanent
Salary: £32,000 per annum, plus 30 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
As a Technical Team Leader, you will lead, manage, coach, motivate, and engage a team of people to coordinate activities to achieve a number of technical and business goals through effective process compliance management, continuous improvement, quality, and a focus on self and team development.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
Be accountable for providing weekly daily and monthly performance reports, develop, and maintain visual management boards for the team
Ensure health, safety, environment, and housekeeping standards are delivered on an ongoing basis and actively promote individual responsibility for health and safety
Create daily / weekly production schedules including hourly resource planning in conjunction with Planning and Resource Manager
Continually evaluate Tact times for production line cells and identify opportunities to improve Quality and throughput
Drive and monitor value added activities to maximise recoverable product value
Ensure all direct activities have a relevant standard operating procedure which are compliant to current client provided work instructions (GSX and Agile)
Actively pursue the elimination of waste through the application of continuous improvement tools and techniques
Proactively use problem solving techniques to explore and promote any initiatives that support driving costs down, without affecting quality
Promote flexibility through skills training and personal development to meet future and current team capability targets
Provide accurate and concise End of Day production line analysis / reporting directly to senior Management team
Provide analysis of Technical exceptions in process, both internally and direct to client, when required
Monitor team absence and performance, taking action where necessary, ensuring weekly reviews and accurate reporting
Create and maintain a positive team culture and spirit, encouraging involvement from all team members when sharing group, divisional and team information
Work with appropriate parties to provide solutions to team issues taking account of the appropriate policies and ethical practice
Manage customer interfaces and expectations to ensure excellent customer service is received
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
Essential:
GCSE or equivalent level of education (including Maths and English)
Experience of managing and leading a team in a fast paced production environment
Excellent communication skills including effective listening
Good IT skills, inc Microsoft Office, Google suite
Logical thinker with skills in understanding, interpreting and proactively acting upon data
Commitment to self-development and team development
Experience of adapting to and leading programmes of change
Understanding and implementing Health and Safety standards
Experience of delivering excellent customer service
People management through HR processes and procedures
Desirable:
GSX, WMS and SAP experience
Knowledge of production line management tools / techniques, MTM / MOST or similar
First Line Manager training qualifications
Working experience of lean/CI techniques
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may also have experience in the following: Production Supervisor, Manufacturing Team Leader, Shift Supervisor, Operations Team Leader, Line Manager, Production Manager, Process Improvement Manager, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Assembly Line Leader, Lean Manufacturing Lead, Technical Supervisor, Technical Operations Manager, Warehouse Team Leader, Logistics Coordinator, Production Line Manager, Quality Assurance Supervisor, Operational Team Leader, Technical Coordinator, Process Engineer, Health and Safety Lead, etc.
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