People skills
· Ensure their team's compliance with H&S and quality standards
· Performing gap analysis on team skills and develop training matrix & development plans to ensure full cross skills are in place.
· Communicate job expectations and coach employees
· Communicate well with other departments and management daily on targets, plans and specific jobs going through the factory.
· Assist manager in recruitment.
Production skills
· Effective contribution to the achievement of the company business plan by focussing on key KPI targets, driving accountability and consistently challenging and involving the team to achieve results.
· Monitoring Production performance, ensuring Production are hitting agreed hourly targets.
· Achieve top levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching and assuring the quality of goods, filling in for absenteeism if necessary.
· Control overtime and agency costs ensuring costs are justified in advance and remain within agreed budget levels.
· Identify areas of improvement and execute change to/or adjust existing work procedures and practices.
· Continuously looking for ways to improve efficiencies.
· Ensuring company are working to required quality and housekeeping standards.
· Ensure preventative maintenance is kept up to date.
· Familiarity with 5 “S” and similar lean tools.
Skills and Experience required
· Must have excellent communication skills and be computer literate
· Must have leadership and interpersonal skills
· Must have hands-on commitment to getting the job done
· Must have MS Office, Email and daily reporting experience
· Previous experience in a manufacturing / production environment in a role such as Production Team Leader / Shift Team Leader / Shift Supervisor / Production Manager / Line Leader
· Experience with Continuous Improvement tools would be beneficial.
· First aid experience would be beneficial but not essential.
Shift
Second Shift (United Kingdom)