Job Title: Production Team Leader

Location: Ammanford

Salary: Hourly rate - -15.08 plus -25 shift premium per week

Job type: Full time, Temp role for 12 Months covering maternity. 40 hours per week, 10 hours per day. Hours are 2.15 PM until 12.15 AM - Monday to Thursday.

Working out of our state-of-the-art 240,000 ft- facility in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, we fabricate more than 1,750 sash windows a week and supply over 3,000 trade customers. Quite simply, we are the largest sash window manufacturer in Europe. We are the only manufacturers of ECOSlide PVC-U sash windows, the leading sash window system on the market. Our PVC-U vertical sliding sash windows provide long lasting durability, making them a truly outstanding addition to any property.

The Role:

The purpose of this role is to lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing team to achieve production and quality targets while ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. The role requires effective leadership, coaching, and communication to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence within the department.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for;

• Ensure the working practices and duties are carried out in line with current health and safety legislation and company policies
• Identify any skills gaps and ensure the team are trained to maintain a minimum qualified level of resource to achieve the business needs
• Lead, motivate and influence team members to achieve daily quality and production targets
• Ensure the team are effectively used on the line - rotating where needed and deploying skills where they are needed.
• Encourage and support the team, raising and resolving issues quickly and effectively using company policies and leadership skills.
• Partner departmental functions within the business to ensure smooth operating practices
• Communicate on handover with the opposite shift Team Leader to ensure positive and accurate changeover and agree any actions required.
• Positively coach team members to fulfil the business objectives
• Record and share shift performance with the team and management
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities within the production environment contributing to continuous improvement initiatives where possible
• Be a positive influence on the team and provide constructive feed back to them and other key roles
• Encourage the company values are being adhered to and ensure they are being demonstrated in a leading by example approach.

Person specification:

Qualifications;

(Essential)

• IOSH Working Safely

Experience;

(Essential)

• Working within a manufacturing environment

Skills, knowledge and ability:

(Essential)

• Health and safety knowledge
• Clear communicator with the ability to communicate calmly upwards and downwards
• Methodical and accurate
• Good people management and leadership skills

Personal characteristics:

(Essential)

• Ability to work well with different personalities
• Credible and trustworthy
• Encourages open communication
• Open to learning and development
• Takes responsibility for team outcomes

Benefits:

• Employee discounts platform
• Pension
• 24 days holiday
• Free parking
• Free fruit

If you like the sound of this role, we would love to hear from you.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job title of; Manufacturing Team Leader, Production Shift Supervisor, Team Leader, Team Leader - Production, may also be considered for this role.