Production Leader; Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; £44,000

Noon shift:         2pm to 10pm

An award-winning Stoke on Trent based manufacturer is expanding. Over the years this company has firmly established themselves as one of the UK’s leaders within their industry through their reputation for excellent quality products. They are currently looking to strengthen their management team with the recruitment of a Production Leader.

Continuously improving, stringent safety standards and great team work, are key ingredients of this company’s culture and the Production Leaders set the standards by;

• Ensuring the daily activities of all production staff are undertaken safely, in line with the risk assessment programme and promote a safe and clean working environment.
• Ensuring all KPIs are monitored and updated using the hour by hour charts on a daily basis, any failures reported in a timely manner and also reasons for failure and any corrective actions identified.
• Communicating with other Production Team Leaders to resolve any issues that may affect delivery to customers in a timely manner.
• Managing and monitoring departmental safety and housekeeping standards in line with the “5S” programme. Ensure all visual management notices and tools are maintained to the highest standard.
• Coaching, co-ordinating and delegating duties to those staff working in the cell. To actively train all staff members within the section to develop their skills to allow complete flexibility across the section (multi-skilled) documenting on the departmental training skills matrix.

Applicants for the Production Leader role should have experience of successfully managing a production team, gained from a forward thinking manufacturing environment, where safety and continuously improving are of key importance.

Those applying should also be energetic and enthusiastic, with the ability to manage effectively, problem solve and possess excellent communication and motivational skills.

Due to expected high numbers of applications to the Production Leader vacancy we regret that we are unable to respond to all applicants, if you have not heard from us within 3 days of applying unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.