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We are looking for an Operations Leader to join our Workshop Team based in Coventry.
The Operations Leaders role is to lead a cell team of between 1 and 25 individuals (including, but not limited to apprentices, technicians and Manufacturing Engineers etc). They ensure that their facility operates to the appropriate processes and behaviours to ensure the delivery of performance for Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery against agreed targets.
Duties and Responsibilities
As an Operations Leader you will:
- They will ensure compliance of all appropriate processes and act as a role model for the desirable behaviour.
- They are accountable for the cell teams health and safety.
- They will manage the teams absence and behaviours to ensure that they meet the expectations of the MTC. Where appropriate this will include performance management.
- They will inspire a culture of continuous improvement and strive to empower their team members to take action to resolve issues independently.
- They will be empowered to stop work and tasks, should the behaviour or process be inappropriate or unsafe.
- They have overall day-to-day management of the Cell schedule and its performance against commitments for schedule and cost whilst ensuring that quality and safety requirements are maintained.
- Influence the strategic capability requirements for the future development of the cells machines and people.
Person Specification
We are looking for a candidate who has:
- Significant and proven experience and technical expertise in a manufacturing discipline.
- Experience in managing teams to achieve business objectives.
- An understanding (and experience of implementing and executing) of Lean manufacturing principles within an operational cell.
- Ability to translate customer requirements into a deployed capability installation.
- UK National, holding or capable of achieving further security clearance.
For more information, please see the job description attached.
