Line leader

JB377: Line Leader

Salary: Competitive

Location: Melksham

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Line Leader on behalf of one of our clients.

Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor output to production requirements in their cell on a day-to-day basis and raise any concerns.
• Track productivity, quality and inventory trends over time and implement improvements.
• Performance manage staff within their line that are not performing to required standards.
• Manage all staff within their cell, including logging holidays and sickness and completing return to work interviews.
• Assign labour to workstations, ensuring operators are trained on their given station.
• Complete stage 1 disciplinary investigations and warnings.
• Support value streams to improve and fix systemic process issues.
• Ensure all operators are trained on their assigned processes and are following the standard operating procedure (SOP).
• Compliance with health and safety policies.
• Complete 1:1’s with employees on a twice-yearly basis, identify high potential people and support with their development plans.
• To manage training records and skills matrices, identifying gaps and planning / implementing a training and development plan.
• To be responsible for SOP documentation ensuring amendments are made in line with change control procedures and audit as necessary.
• Assist in the planning of and support of trials and sampling.
• To make all operators aware of company procedures and escalate as necessary to ensure it is dealt with promptly by the relevant Engineering / Technical department.
• To maintain the highest level of housekeeping, leading 5S teams to deliver actions and goals as identified from housekeeping audits and the Site Leadership Team.
• Request overtime within area when required, organise with staff.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement and a team that adopts change.
• Cover Team absence – step up for Tier 2 on occasion in Production Leader absence.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Good verbal and written communication.
• Able to use Microsoft office suite at a basic level.
• Experience working with MRP systems.
• Lean manufacturing philosophy understanding.
• A positive attitude towards change.
• Understanding of manufacturing operations within area.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Able to make difficult decisions in a fast-moving environment.
• Good team player who can motivate and deal with conflict in an appropriate and professional manner.