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)