JB377: Line Leader
Salary: Competitive
Location: Melksham
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Line Leader on behalf of one of our clients.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitor output to production requirements in their cell on a day-to-day basis and raise any concerns.
- Track productivity, quality and inventory trends over time and implement improvements.
- Performance manage staff within their line that are not performing to required standards.
- Manage all staff within their cell, including logging holidays and sickness and completing return to work interviews.
- Assign labour to workstations, ensuring operators are trained on their given station.
- Complete stage 1 disciplinary investigations and warnings.
- Support value streams to improve and fix systemic process issues.
- Ensure all operators are trained on their assigned processes and are following the standard operating procedure (SOP).
- Compliance with health and safety policies.
- Complete 1:1’s with employees on a twice-yearly basis, identify high potential people and support with their development plans.
- To manage training records and skills matrices, identifying gaps and planning / implementing a training and development plan.
- To be responsible for SOP documentation ensuring amendments are made in line with change control procedures and audit as necessary.
- Assist in the planning of and support of trials and sampling.
- To make all operators aware of company procedures and escalate as necessary to ensure it is dealt with promptly by the relevant Engineering / Technical department.
- To maintain the highest level of housekeeping, leading 5S teams to deliver actions and goals as identified from housekeeping audits and the Site Leadership Team.
- Request overtime within area when required, organise with staff.
- Create a culture of continuous improvement and a team that adopts change.
- Cover Team absence – step up for Tier 2 on occasion in Production Leader absence.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Good verbal and written communication.
- Able to use Microsoft office suite at a basic level.
- Experience working with MRP systems.
- Lean manufacturing philosophy understanding.
- A positive attitude towards change.
- Understanding of manufacturing operations within area.
- Ability to solve problems.
- Able to make difficult decisions in a fast-moving environment.
- Good team player who can motivate and deal with conflict in an appropriate and professional manner.
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