Production Team Leader- 18 month in Desford

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you’re joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Join our Desford team where you will have the opportunity to work with smart tooling, digital standard work and advanced automation to drive innovation in a state-of-art-environment. As a Production Team Leader within assembly, you will lead and motivate an assembly operations team ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of quality products meeting customer order deadlines.

What You Will Do:

• Leading the team to meet the daily production goals on safety, quality, velocity and cost targets.
• Actively coach, guide and mentor your teams performance and development.
• Carry out daily communications and deploy training programs to upskill teams using lean methodologies.
• Lead an inclusive, engaging safety culture.
• Proactively resolve issues and generate new ideas for your assigned area using the Continuous Improvement (CI) process to improve quality, effectiveness and safety.
• Audit and drive defect investigations to ensure high quality product outputs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive improvements within the assembly processes.
• Proactively plan and cover team members absences daily.

The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

What you can demonstrate:

• Possess a good understanding of assembly operations practices and process.
• Experience of the Manufacturing Quality process, reporting defects and root cause analysis.
• Ability to work closely with others, requiring team participation to achieve the agreed goals.
• Self-motivated, with the flexibility to deal with independent and team behaviours, able to motivate and influence others with your advice and experience.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal to be confident to eradicate behaviours not in line with our company values.
• Highly organised and a keen attention to detail.
• Must be flexible and support extra hours if required and willing to work on a multi shift pattern.

What you may have:

• Previous people development and performance management experience.
• 6 Sigma / Project management.

Flexible working arrangements will be considered for this role, in-line with the needs of the business.

What You Will Get:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build on the skills they have by working with a variety of different functional areas, allowing them to develop their understanding of the wider business requirements. Becoming a member of a skilled, diverse and inclusive team that will provide a good foundation for future career development within Caterpillar.

Caterpillar is a world leader in construction and mining equipment—creating innovative, cutting-edge products and services that help our customers build the world around us. With that level of impact comes the platform to care for the world we work in.

From day one, you’re set up to thrive at Caterpillar: helpful training, relatable mentors, global experience, competitive salary package, work-life balance and the growth opportunities you expect with a Fortune 100 company.

Just a quick heads-up: We start reviewing applications as soon as they come in, so if you’re interested, don’t wait too long. We may close the advert early if we feel we’ve got a strong pool of potentially suitable applicants.