£48,000 – £52,000SeniorFull Time
Role: Production Team Leader - Weekend Shift
Location: Leamington Spa
Role ID: 2026 - 3362
Salary: £48,000 - £52,000 per annum inclusive of weekend shift premium
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo is a world‑class engineering and technology consultancy, delivering innovative, low‑emission and high‑efficiency solutions across global industries. We are seeking a proactive Production Team Leader to support our weekend shift operations within our Manufacturing team.
The Role
As a Production Team Leader, you will be responsible for ensuring effective production flow, safety, quality, and delivery performance. You will lead, support, and motivate your team, ensuring smooth operations, accurate documentation, and adherence to company processes and standards. You will act as the main point of contact for all shift‑related activities, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate must bring confident and supportive leadership from a precision machining environment, with the ability to guide, motivate, and develop your team while maintaining strong standards across safety, quality, and performance. You will be highly organised, an effective communicator, and committed to driving continuous improvement within your area.
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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