Production Team Leader in Gosport

As a Production Team Leader, you will play a key role in driving a fast-paced production value stream, leading teams to deliver production plans safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This role provides hands-on, day-to-day leadership on the shop floor, ensuring teams follow standard processes and meet all health, safety, environmental, quality, and defence industry requirements. With a strong focus on operational control, people leadership, and performance delivery, the Production Team Leader keeps production running smoothly and efficiently.

Key Duties

• Supervise and support production team members to ensure work is completed to customer specification, schedule, and budget, while complying with all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Plan, prioritise, and allocate work to meet daily production targets, adjusting priorities as required to maintain flow and on-time delivery.
• Ensure tools, equipment, and resources are available, capable, and maintained to support production requirements.
• Lead and support daily tier meetings, ensuring tier boards, KPIs, and visual management systems are maintained and accurately reflect current performance.
• Monitor performance against plan, identifying variances to standard times, quality, or output, and escalate issues where required.
• Support structured problem-solving activities (e.g. 5 Why, 8D) for non-conformances and performance issues, ensuring actions are implemented and sustained.
• Ensure production activities are carried out in accordance with defined standard work, takt time and flow requirements.
• Maintain 5S standards and visual management systems in line with company requirements.
• Manage day-to-day people matters including attendance, timekeeping, discipline, engagement, and employee relations, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Support delivery of training plans and ensure team members are competent and authorised to perform assigned tasks.
• Promote effective communication, teamwork, and a positive working environment.
• Ensure Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) activities are completed and recorded in line with schedule.
• Liaise with internal functions such as Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Planning to ensure production is completed to plan and to specification.
• Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with company policies, defence manufacturing regulations, quality standards, and security requirements.

Skills/Qualifications

• Experience in a flow-line or high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience leading or supervising production teams.
• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles and standard work application.
• Experience with visual management and performance tracking.
• Experience using ERP/MRP systems and production planning tools.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Additional Information

SECURITY – All candidates must be in a position to obtain UK security clearance to SC level. Additional restrictions may apply on certain defence programmes.