Production Team Leader

Production Team Leader

Near Templecombe

The Role

Reporting to the Production Manager, the Production Team Leader will control sections of the manufacturing team, their activities & conduct. This will include direct hands-on intervention with factory activities where and when needed. The role will support the Production Manager in delivering low-cost production, conformance to plan, maximum capacity, optimum yield, minimal downtime, ie best efficiency. To act as a key member of the company operations management team, to further the goals & objectives of the business. The position is full-time factory based; remote working is impractical.

Job Description

Duties will include, but are not limited to -

• Supporting, assisting & deputising for the Production Manager and other members of the leadership team as needed -- both reactively & proactively
• Ensure that standards & requirements of Health & Safety are robustly maintained
• Ensuring that standards of product & material quality, waste, & housekeeping are fully & consistently met
• Organising & monitoring all production activities & team members
• Ensuring that the production plans are completed & achieved in the most efficient way.

• Striving to improve performance against targets. Driving results, monitoring and feeding-back outcomes.
• Problem solving to keep production active. Recovering from errors with the least effect of the business & customer.
• Filling-in for staff absence and/or effectively re-organising to cover. Also providing or arranging break cover during the seasonal periods.

• Ensuring that Shop Floor Data Collection is maintained accurately
• Finding better ways for working for the benefit of team members and the business
• Always seeking to improve all aspects of operating and of the employee experience
• Provide training, enforce rules & maintain standards of behaviour from all members of the team.

• The role may vary according to business needs.

The Person- Production Team Leader

• High level of understanding of people management skills & principles.
• Strong but approachable with gravitas, confidence, & empathy
• Ability to organise around a variety of tasks & liaise directly with others both internal & external
• The ability to communicate in detail with people at all levels. Supportive of colleagues.
• Understanding of the production processes, production plant, & workplace environment
• Clear awareness of H&S principles & specific issues. Mindful of workforce & visitor safety & comfort
• Highly flexible, adaptable, and committed.

15.20 x 40 hours, overtime at X 1.5

24 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays

40 hours - Monday to Friday 07.30 to 16.30

Additional info

The number of people is around 16., distributed around a wide floor area. There are around 6 or 7 departments containing those people, so mobility, juggling, keeping things connected is more the task.

There is little paperwork. There are working documents to distribute & collect, a few simple forms to fill. There is no real computer work other that reading emails.

In practice this wants to be very much shop floor oriented - minimal office time apart from occasional meetings/discussions.