Production Team Leader

Are you a driven and dynamic individual with a passion for leadership in the production environment? Do you thrive in a fast-paced setting, ensuring top-notch quality and efficiency? STS Defence is looking for a talented Production Team Leader to join our innovative and growing team.

Key duties:

• To supervise subordinates (Team Members) to ensure that work is processed to customer specification, on time to the appropriate health and safety and environmental standards
• Conduct / support daily tier meetings, update and maintain all tier boards where required, metrics and KPIs and conduct shop floor reviews using 5Y, 8D or A3 to identify root cause and corrective actions for all non-conformances raised within the area, and any significant variances to budgeted times
• To organise the workload to meet business targets, setting and changing priorities as needed, and to arrange the necessary materials and resources, to ensure on time delivery to the customer, whilst taking responsibility for the tools and equipment in terms of capacity and maintainability
• Responsible for delivering the training plans, training, continuous improvement, updating the skills matrix, ensuring multiple single skill depth. Maintain documentation relating to the function in accordance with company requirements
• To manage day to day HR issues within the area or escalate where required, generating and maintaining high morale, maintaining and controlling attendance records, discipline, good employee relations and communications
• To lead and continuously improve the work within the area, using lean manufacturing techniques (value stream mapping, takt time, line balancing etc) while ensuring compliance with Quality standards
• Liaise with other internal departments i.e. Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, QA to ensure work is completed to plan
• Implementation and development of line side kanbans to facilitate continuous flow line production. (not batch)
• Development and manage 5s and other Lean activities in line with company requirements
• Put into place action plans to correct any areas where targets are not being met
• Ensure areas TPM is conducted and recorded, any machinery or equipment failures are managed, document and communicate to the appropriate function, agreeing the necessary actions to restore production quickly
• Carry out other duties commensurate with the position as Production Team Leader