Toolroom Team Leader in Swindon

Toolroom Team Leader

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

We are looking for a skilled and proactive Tool Room Team Leader to oversee the production, maintenance and improvement of tooling and ancillary equipment used in the manufacture, assembly and testing of the Spirax Sarco product range. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you will supervise a team of Toolroom engineers, drive high standards across the department, manage tool orders and maintenance schedules, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives supporting efficiency, quality and reliability across operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise Toolroom staff, allocating work and ensuring effective team performance.
• Maintain excellent housekeeping and uphold high 5S standards across the Toolroom.
• Ensure all activities are fully compliant with H & S regulations and company procedures.
• Support and contribute to the Production Engineering strategy and departmental KPIs.
• Manage all aspects of tool orders, including breakdowns, planned maintenance and general tooling work, ensuring timely completion and job closure.
• Oversee subcontractor activities, ensuring quality and compliance.
• Drive proactive backlog management and effective planning.
• Actively support engineering and production projects, providing specialist tooling input.
• Maintain cost awareness and support effective budget control.
• Identify, lead and support CI and reliability initiatives using recognised improvement tools.
• Promote problem‑solving, root cause analysis and structured improvement across the team.

Your Experience

• Demonstrable experience in leading or supervising a team.
• Strong problem‑solving ability with a practical, analytical approach.
• Experience working with MRP systems; JD Edwards/E1 or similar is an advantage.
• Understanding of EHS requirements and compliance in an engineering environment.
• Experience working on engineering or manufacturing projects.
• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications & Technical Knowledge

• Experience using and applying Continuous Improvement tools (Six Sigma, 5 Whys, etc.).
• Supervisory, management or team leader qualification (desirable).
• Time‑served engineer with a multi‑skilled mechanical apprenticeship, minimum ONC or equivalent NVQ.
• Proven experience in tool and fixture manufacture, including press tools.
• Strong knowledge of Manufacturing Engineering principles.
• Experience manufacturing tools, jigs and work‑holding equipment using both CNC and conventional methods.

Your Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and influence across functions.
• Experience in team development, coaching and performance management.
• Highly organised with strong time‑management skills.
• Analytical problem‑solving capability with a practical mindset.
• Ability to conduct risk assessments and ensure safe working practices.
• Alignment with and commitment to the Company Core Values.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued – across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender‑neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause‑friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.