Production Line Lead - Quality, KPIs & Team Growth in Bassingbourn

A production line leader is responsible for ensuring that the team is carrying out manufacturing/assembly efficiently and with strict adherence to the quality standards. You are responsible for the communication between departments and cells. The line leader needs to motivate their team to complete the target dispatch goals without compromise to quality. This role is available due to company growth.

Benefits

• Salary: Negotiable + Monthly bonus
• 31 holidays (including bank holidays)
• 5 sick days on full pay
• Free lunches
• Birthday voucher
• Pension scheme
• Health insurance scheme, including discounted gym membership and appointment paybacks

Working hours

Full time presence on premises. 40 hour week, 8 hour per day, 7am to 4pm, unpaid break of 60 minutes. These normal work hours may be varied by mutual agreement to meet operational requirements of the company. Reports to Production Manager.

Responsibilities

• Complete scheduled work – Ensure that your team are set up to complete the scheduled work on time and in full.
• Quality – Make sure that all work produced is to the desired quality and that QC checks are completed and documented.
• Health and safety – Maintain a safe working environment by ensuring team members follow regulations and procedures. Anything unsafe that you are not able to resolve must be reported. Responsible to make sure that team members are wearing the correct PPE.
• Training and supervising – New members and agency staff must be trained and inducted according to standard protocols and operating procedures. They must then be monitored by the line leader to enforce the methods.
• Motivating the team – You will be expected to motivate others in your team to deliver to tight deadlines. You will handle day to day task management for your team distributing and ensuring labour is balanced. Feedback to your team is essential and holding them to account for their performance will be required.
• Maintenance – Complete maintenance tasks on machinery and equipment and report any faults that can’t be resolved.
• Reporting – Daily reporting on cell KPIs, reporting of health and safety issues or non-conformances.
• Continuous Improvement and cell development – Contribute to process improvements by identifying inefficiencies and suggesting solutions. Capture team members suggestions and improvements.
• Help with SOP documentation
• QA/QC: Perform QC inspection on produced items, ensuring all finished products meet established quality criteria. Complete and maintain inspection checklists and sign-offs for each job to ensure traceability and accountability. Ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken to address quality issues. Ensure no finished product leaves the production cell without documented inspection and approval.

There may be additional duties required in addition to the above.

Qualifications

• You must enjoy maths and numbers.
• You must have exposure to manufacturing and/or lean manufacturing methods previously.
• You must have had previous experience in assembly.
• You must have leadership and motivational skills – interpersonal skills.
• Must be able for a physically challenging hands on role.
• You need to be logical – you will work with bespoke requirements, so there's always a lot of new detail to work through.
• If you struggle to grasp technical concepts, then think twice about applying.
• You must consider yourself to be a professional person – we mean business!
• Applicants must have full UK work authorization without the need for current or future sponsorship.
• The candidate should have a range of GCSE / A Level results which show passes in English and Mathematics.