Your role: A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Team Leader to join our Manufacturing team at our Ellesmere Port site. Reporting to the Site Manager, this role will be responsible for leading a team of operators and ensuring the smooth running of the production process, ensuring all products are produced to the required quality specifications and production output quantities, on target and on time. You will follow best practice to improve area and team using continuous improvement techniques, team training, and leading improvement projects. You will be responsible for production in terms of management of staff, management of production and targets, and ensuring the smooth running of the production processes. You will contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on manufacturing activities. You will ensure rejected pallets are controlled and repaired following the site's process and any scrap timber is recorded correctly. It is crucial to develop and maintain good working relationships with team members and other team leaders, clearly communicating tasks, issues, and handovers. You will play a key part in the team to assist in the induction process and training of all new production employees, ensuring that all safe systems of work are always followed. You will review stock supply on the line and ensure zero stock outs, make sure piece rates are correct, and store data correctly following processes and procedures. It is important to engage with the team to ensure good staff morale. As a Team Leader, you will have previous manufacturing Team Leader experience, be able to give briefings, create presentations, and be able to delegate authority in the workplace. A customer-focused attitude, confidence, and a friendly demeanor are essential. Who we are: BSW Group is the largest timber and forestry business in the UK, with operating divisions spanning the whole supply chain, from tree nurseries and woodland management to sawmilling and pallets. We market 35 million saplings annually through the country’s leading commercial tree nursery, have planted a billion trees through Tilhill Forestry, supply sustainable timber products to an array of industries as BSW Timber, and manufacture millions of pallets a year as Scott Pallets. We work to keep industry moving and aim to be the most technically advanced timber business in the country. BSW operates as a collection of experts – an interconnected circle, where everyone and everything works together, allowing the business to constantly innovate as our people thrive. With an ethos to use everything and waste nothing, we leverage technology and cutting-edge practices to supply the diverse demands of the UK, helping to build sustainable worlds. What you will receive in return: Career development in a family-run business Contributory Pension Scheme My Pay Rewards – discounts on vouchers Refer a friend scheme Free fruit provided on site Cycle to Work Scheme Think you have what it takes? If so, we want to hear from you.