We’re delighted to be supporting a financially strong and globally successful manufacturing and engineering organisation to recruit a full time and permanent Production Leader to manage and guide a team of 150 shift workers reporting into 8 team leaders.

Our client is a forward thinking, innovative business who value their employees and highly and run a people centric manufacturing facility.

Job purpose:

This role reports into the Operations Manager and the purpose of this job is to be the link between the ongoing production and the site management team. The person will manage the production within all departments, forward planning labour requirements based on value stream requirements. They will manage the shop floor disciplinary process, completing investigations and disciplinaries as required. They will be responsible for cascading information to Line Leaders, Product Technicians and Process Operators. They must foster an environment to drive engagement and ensure line leaders are developing.

We are looking for a leader confident in managing people and processes and who will create an environment of continuous improvement across their team

Duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure production figures are met and report to Site Management what the ongoing issues in production are.
  
  
• Forward plan labour for future production requirements, arrange and pay agency fees.
  
  
• Investigate and complete stage 1 and stage 2 disciplinaries.
  
  
• Approve / decline overtime requests from line Leaders.
  
  
• Communicate planned tool changes to engineering team.
  
  
• Investigate employee absences.
  
  
• Manage and support all Line Leaders to complete their role and responsibilities as required, guide about production priorities communicated via value streams.
  
  
• Ensure appropriate PPE is available.
  
  
• Complete 1:1’s, identify high potential people and support with their development plans.
  
  
• Create a culture of Continuous Improvement and a team that adopts change.
  
  
• Build a team of Line Leaders and Team Supervisors who work together to meet site and SBU goals.
  
  
• Coach and develop Line Leaders to run their area with minimal supervision, set expectations and manage performance.
  
  
• To be responsible for the communication up and down the Tier system
  
  Qualifications:
  
  
• Experience in a manufacturing leadership role.
  
  
• Leadership and management training
  
  Desirable:
  
  
• HSE qualification, IOSH or similar
  
  
• A foundation degree, HND or degree
  
  Skills:
  
  
• Planning and organisation skills
  
  
• Leadership skills
  
  
• Interpersonal skills
  
  
• Complex problem solving
  
  
• Strong decision making
  
  
• Data analytics
  
  
• IT literate
  
  
• The ability to work under pressure and multitask
  
  This vacancy is being advertised by New Resource Group. The services of New Resource Group are that of an Employment Agency