Senior Team Leader in London

We are looking for an experienced Senior Team Leader to join our manufacturing team at our Derby site.

Monday - Thursday: 6.00am - 18.00pm

Salary £50,000 to £54,000 per annum, depending on experience

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Company pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays, Christmas shut down
• BUPA Health care
• Free onsite parking
• Death in Service benefit
• Long Service awards

Purpose of role and key accountabilities:

• Being 'hands on' supporting the Production Manager in the efficient running of the area, being the first point of contact and helping with communication throughout the Production process to ensure that quality goods are delivered to our customers on time.
• Leading the designated teams in meeting and exceeding customer requirements on quality, cost and delivery.
• Support, develop and promote improvement activities to products and manufacturing processes.
• Ensure daily hours are achieved and that late to start and late to end is in line with company targets.
• Work within cross‑functional teams to support business development, growth and improvement projects as required, and lead the facility in meeting and exceeding customer requirements - 99% OTIF.
• Manage effective handover between shifts using the SQCDP framework and co‑ordinate the team's production activities to ensure that agreed targets are achieved and to escape to manager any areas of concern which cannot be resolved locally within the area.
• Work in conjunction with the wider site team to reduce the number of accidents, near misses and environmental hazards utilising 6S principles managing HS&E proactively and effectively.
• Support legislative site audits and site action plans to drive improved safety standards and continuous improvement performance throughout the business.
• Be accountable for the appropriate management of the teams/individual's development/performance/conduct/absence in a timely manner with a consistent approach.
• Maintain systems relating to responsible areas and teams.
• Work to ISO 50001/14001/45001/9001 standards.
• Commitment to continual improvement in manufacturing, quality, health, safety environmental, energy and sustainability management.
• Support the Energy team and consider energy reduction and savings within the scope of your role leading to continuous improvement.

Core skills/attributes needed:

• The ability to give and receive constructive feedback and assist in facilitating solutions, turning problems into opportunities to support continuous improvement.
• Consistently demonstrate a structured approach to planning operational requirements to meet agreed customer deadlines.
• Demonstrate tenacity, when appropriate, in securing a customer deliverable.
• Apply commercially based reasoning to influence decisions that affect both our ability to deliver to a customer 'on time in full' and to secure ongoing customer confidence on the occasions when things do not go to plan, despite everyone's best efforts.
• Consistently demonstrate a 'can do' motivated approach in exceeding customer expectation.

Measurable performance indicators/objectives of role:

• Achievement of team targets to required standard (i.e. quality, cost, delivery).
• Ensuring team members are trained and flexible in order to respond to customer requirements, managing resource.
• Maintenance of health and safety/housekeeping standards within the team to required standard.
• Successful implementation of continuous improvement plans (i.e. cost reduction, improvements to productivity, quality, health and safety).
• Contractually agreed customer satisfaction measures relating to product quality, cost and delivery responsiveness targets.
• PDR process to be completed annually alongside any actions that arise.
• Regular updates of the training / skills matrix.
• RTW process to be followed.
• Daily checks on TPM board need to be maintained.
• People management in line with processes in a consistent and timely manner.

The employee must also strive to support the elements of the SQCDP framework of the wider Gardner business:

• Safety: Drive culture of near miss reporting and hazard identification as part of the company 6S process.
• Quality: Drive culture of RCA when non-conformance is identified.
• Cost: Drive culture of productivity to achieve cost targets.
• Delivery: Ensure completion of components in line with WTL's and customer requirements.
• People: Ensure training matrices are up to date and potential skill shortages are identified and covered, with cross‑training where possible within the team.