Team Leader (Braid Rotating Shifts)

Location: Aflex - Bradley Business Park

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multinational industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential.

Job Summary

We are seeking a talented and motivated Team Leader (Braid Rotating Shifts) to join our dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities

• The Braid team leader will lead, encourage and motivate team members in accordance with the relevant specifications, procedures and quality standards related to their roles.
• Provide leadership and supervision for the team members; support staff development through training, mentoring and regular one to one meetings and appraisals to achieve and maintain high performance and compliance to relevant standards.
• Ensure high quality standards are reinforced and maintained. Manufacture product to meet customer delivery dates in a timely manner.
• Lead the Braid plan to ensure everything is done to achieve the target of 95% on time to commitment.
• As a member of the Aflex management team, lead health, wellbeing and safety of our colleagues, contributing to a strong safety culture.
• Collaborate with the Department Leader to react quickly to quality issues, process problems, labour shortages and machine breakdowns and take prompt actions to resolve.
• Support and promote 6s activities within the workshop.
• Conduct shift start up and shift end meetings.
• Implement countermeasures on non-conformance.
• Provide training and mentoring for operators and apprentices as required.
• Manage unplanned absence, lateness, track attendance, conduct return to work meetings and escalate issues to the Department Leader.
• Address discipline issues in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Proactively address performance concerns and conduct issues; escalate to the Department Leader and HR in a timely way where usual management procedures have not resolved issues.
• Conduct performance reviews in-line with the company annual performance review process.
• Conduct regular 1-2-1 meetings with team members.
• Ensure positive and productive relationships are maintained within the department and with suppliers and customers.
• Show trust in others and find opportunities to empower.
• Have the courage to respectfully challenge if you disagree and listen if someone questions your view.

Who You’ll Be Working With

You will be working with a team of 9 production operatives. You will attend twice weekly production meetings with your internal stakeholders. You will report to the braid department head or operations manager.

Skills/Experience

• Exposure to Lean manufacturing experience, ideally white belt or above.
• Working within NEBOSH, COSHH or IOSH environments.
• Experience of 5s or 6s processes.
• Ability to investigate nonconformance and assist in root cause analysis.
• Experience of leading and managing people.
• Resilient and the ability to work in a high-pressure work environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively across a diverse group of people.
• Highly motivated with a focus on solutions.
• IT skills – Excel and Word programmes.

Benefits

• A competitive salary.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• A generous holiday allowance.
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave.
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan.

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.

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. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Our shared 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 116 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones! Our inclusive culture and Values unite us, guide our decisions and inspire 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.