Manufacturing Team Leader
// Role Summary
Lead a dynamic manufacturing team in a fast-paced, inclusive environment, delivering a diverse range of products from cable builds to complex systems. This role offers significant opportunities for development and career progression within a leading defence organisation.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage and develop a multi-disciplined manufacturing team.
- Oversee production of diverse hardware, including cable builds, system builds, machining, and prototyping.
- Ensure programme targets are met on time, within cost, and to quality standards.
- Maintain a safe working environment and promote effective working relationships.
- Support various project and continuous improvement meetings.
// Role Specification
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Manufacturing Team Leader to join our Manufacturing Operations team. You will be working in a varied, fast-paced, friendly and inclusive manufacturing environment, delivering products ranging from cable builds, system builds, machining and prototyping.
The Opportunity:
This opportunity is for an experienced Manufacturing Team Leader to join the Manufacturing team supporting the management of the shop floor. You will be providing Operations leadership to an integrated team to ensure programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.
- Leading, developing and managing a team to deliver a variety of hardware builds, ranging from small cables through to complex systems, Prototyping and Machining, during all phases of the product lifecycle.
- Managing day-to-day deployment of resources and facilities to achieve programme needs.
- Maintaining a safe working environment in-line with 5S policies.
- Promoting and maintaining effective working relationships with the trade unions.
- Maintaining key Manufacturing metrics to enable effective tracking of deliverables.
- Supporting a variety of meetings including health & safety, defect management, forward planning, cost and continuous improvement reviews.
You will be leading a team of multi-disciplined operators in a fast-paced but friendly and inclusive Manufacturing environment. The team has a great mix of people, ranging from apprentices through to experienced skilled technicians, all striving to deliver technical excellence from Cable builds, System builds, Machining and Prototyping in development.
What we're looking for from you:
Ideally qualified as below:
- Engineering / Manufacturing Apprenticeship (Advanced)