JOB OVERVIEW
We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Senior Manufacturing Shift Team Leaderwho has previous experience in a similar industrial, production role with good general knowledge of the plant and process and the drive to achieve high standards.
Working as the Senior Manufacturing Shift Team Leader your role will involve the management of a team of around 18 people ensuring their health, safety and well-being is of the highest priority.
As the Senior Manufacturing Shift Team Leader the role is focused on ensuring that the manufacture of the company’s products is effective and efficient, providing a good quality product to their customers, using lean manufacturing and continuous improvement technique.
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DUTIES
Your duties as the Senior Manufacturing Shift Team Leader include:
1. Responsible for the health, safety and wellbeing of the team, challenging poor safety habits and coaching to promote a strong HSE culture, building awareness of hazard and risk, prompting team to raise hazards and near misses through the correct process
2. Be environmentally aware, managing shifts waste and environmental impact, relating back to the businesses core values
3. Sets high standards for quality and output, ensuring compliance with SOP, accountable for working to plan and meeting business unit targets and efficiencies
4. Drive a quality mindset within the team, following company’s quality control process and procedures; supporting production trials associated with equipment & product improvements, auditing quality of product & dealing with non-conforming product
5. Act when process fails, understanding the correct procedures and escalation to return to production safely and efficiently
6. Understand teams’ weaknesses and strength and highlight key areas for training and improvement
7. Ensure all equipment is fit for purpose; reporting and escalating if equipment needs replaced or repaired
8. Management of team’s holidays and timekeeping, updating and editing systems to ensure accurate recording of hours worked
9. Maintain excellent standards in all aspects of production
10. Ensure conformance to all Standard Operating Procedures for the production line
11. Takes action when processes are not running well, identifies issues and relays to maintenance staff, prioritizing tasks
12. Work across departments to deliver plant improvements and contribute to continuous improvement and lean initiatives
13. Work as a good team member, supporting others and sharing knowledge
14. Liaises well with all departments on a daily basis, attends and contributes to short interval control meetings using this as a method to manage and control shift performance
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
15. Previous experience in a similar industrial, manufacturing, production role
16. Good general knowledge of the plant and process
17. Ability to organise self and Team, identifying training requirements
18. Attention to detail and accuracy
19. Good communication skills
20. Resilience
21. Ability to learn new tasks and to change with new developments
22. Drive to achieve high standards
23. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK
BENEFITS
24. Free onsite parking
25. Location close to bus and rail links
26. Cycle to work scheme
27. Pension
28. Life assurance
29. EAP
30. Discount shopping vouchers
31. Occupational health screening
32. Learning & development platform
33. Access to professional development