Date Posted:
2025-05-06Country:
United KingdomLocation:
GBR02: Glenrothes, Scotland, Queensway Industrial Estate, Glenrothes, KY7 5PYPosition Role Type:
UnspecifiedBusiness Title: Production Team Leader
Location: Glenrothes
Summary of Role:
Leader of a team of production associates building and testing high quality electronic and electro-mechanical assemblies, achieving output, quality and safety targets.
Main Duties:
- Deployment of people in support of production targets
- Ensuring associates follow work instructions precisely
- Performance Development of direct reports - goal setting and performance appraisals
- Effective communications and handover to other shifts
- Management of people, including other shifts
- Leader of large team (typically greater than 15 direct reports)
- Management and control of cross-training / training matrix for associates
- Chairperson for daily team start-up meeting
- Timekeeping and attendance management including holidays
- Highlighting and working with HR on disciplinary issues
- Timesheet approval
- Overtime management and support
- 5S ownership
- Safety ownership
- Driver / Leader of process and quality improvements
- Setting and managing daily / weekly targets (Lean Mfg, Standard Work)
- Kit management / planning - Communications with Planning and Material Control
- Working with management to report on performance against targets
- Pro-active reporting of equipment downtime
- Management of high mix / high changeover / frequently changing priorities
- Expediting work through different stages of production to achieve targets
- Communications with engineering and QA to solve process problems
- Recovery of production downtime issues
- WIP Control / Aged WIP / Line-Item Accuracy
- Management of defective material
- Management of consumables to support production – communications with Material Control
Candidate Requirements:
Essential:
- SVQ Level 4 in Operational Management or equivalent qualification or a minimum of 2 years prior relevant experience.
- IT literate – Microsoft Office skills
Desirable:
- Electronics / electro-mechanical production experience
- Good persuasion / negotiation skills
- Clinical decision making, demonstrating authority
- Good organisational and communication skills
- A highly effective, disciplined and determined approach
- Experience in using SAP / shop floor control systems
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