Days Area Team Leader (Production / Manufacturing)

Days Area Team Leader (Production/Manufacturing) x 2

£37,500 + Excellent Pension + Life Assurance and Other Benefits

Commutable from Beverley, Barton, Bridlington, Brigg, Cottingham, Hessle, Hull, Goole, Goxhill, Grimsby, Keadby, Scunthorpe, York.

Benefits:

 Chance to join a world renowned manufacturing firm
 Opportunity to work on state of the art equipment
 Genuine career opportunities to progress within the company

Information:

My client is a global manufacturing firm based in Hull looking to recruit 2 Area Team Leaders to work on days.

You must have the following:

 Must have management experience working in a Manufacturing, Production or Operations in a fast paced production environment.
 Must have strong communication and influencing skills
 Must have strong interpersonal and mentoring/coaching skills
 The ability to motivate and inspire a team.
 Must be familiar with safe working practices
 Able to achieve KPI targets and able to drive and influence teams to continuously improve
 Organized, great problem solving skills and the ability to think outside the box
 Entrepreneurial skills in terms of innovation and problem solving are key
 Career-focused with strong desire to take on additional responsibilities over 1-2 years
 Achievement focussed and able to work in a direct and often tough environment
 Ability to demonstrate and use tenacity and tough-mindedness
 Self-starter, able to work on own initiative
 Commitment to complete challenges that are started
 Ability to manage multiple activities
 ‘Live’ and operate within the Leadership Charter and Core Values

Role:

The Area Team Leader is responsible for leading manufacturing activities, providing coaching, and leading improvement/culture change as well as ensuring their area consistently delivers against factory KPIs.

Scope:
 The role is focussed on ensuring that teams are able to meet targets set for quality, cost and service
 A key aspect is also to develop a more empowered team, by training, coaching and development of individuals through strong leadership
 Managing team of 15 – 25 people approx

Responsibilities / Accountabilities
:
 Review OEE results on a weekly basis with direct and support teams and agree main issues and improvement plans for following week
 Develop area improvement plans based on the KPI performance; Identify and deliver improvements across the defined areas in a planned and prioritised fashion
 Ensure teams maintain all GMP standards. Ensure 5S\SOCO standards are adhered to
 Ensure all SOPs are followed and, if not, corrective actions are identified and action taken
 Ensuring sufficient flexibility both within work teams and between groups by identifying training issues with team members and taking the subsequent steps to ensure the training is enacted
 Delivery of KPIs
 Ensure KPI scorecards are kept up to date on a daily basis by team members and are reviewed on a weekly basis with the whole team
 Report an accumulated view of all scorecards and other KPIs on a weekly basis to Product Supply Leader
 Ensure the performance reviews of the team are carried out on a monthly basis, with any issues\training\development opportunities being communicated to Product Supply Leader
 Ensure near miss forms (QIR/QRR/DO) are generated and reviewed\actioned
 Ensure all accidents\product security failures are reported to the Area Team Leader or other area management for investigation
 Ensure 13 week plan provided by Product Supply Leader is communicated to all operational teams and the annualised hours recording system is maintained on a weekly basis.
 Ensure team rosters are owned by local teams and are aligned with 3 week firm-fence planning window
 Coach, provide support, lead and drive productivity improvements
 Area Team Leader operates within a daily\weekly timeframe for activity; Senior Area Team Leader operates within a seven day\monthly window (Product Supply Leader has the bigger picture\monthly\quarterly timeframe)

Key Challenges:

 Delivering products within quality, cost and time constraints
 Changing the culture of the factory to accept more ownership for performance and results
 Keeping abreast of the performance of individuals in large teams (up to 25 people)
 Challenge teams to make their own decisions and accept responsibility for the outcome
 Ensure that briefings are 2 way events focussed on driving KPI improvements
 Identifying, recommending and implementing process improvements.
 Ensuring that the annualised hours scheme delivers the required responsiveness for the whole year
 Managing external contacts (ie Planning) within their sphere of influence and span of control

RoS International Ltd are a well established and respected Engineering and Technical Recruitment Company. Since 1991 we have been placing staff into both permanent and contract vacancies throughout the UK.

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