Job Description

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)