People skills

·        Ensure their team's compliance with H&S and quality standards

·        Performing gap analysis on team skills and develop training matrix & development plans to ensure full cross skills are in place.

·        Communicate job expectations and coach employees

·        Communicate well with other departments and management daily on targets, plans and specific jobs going through the factory.

·        Assist manager in recruitment.

Production skills

·        Effective contribution to the achievement of the company business plan by focussing on key KPI targets, driving accountability and consistently challenging and involving the team to achieve results.

·        Monitoring Production performance, ensuring Production are hitting agreed hourly targets.

·        Achieve top levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching and assuring the quality of goods, filling in for absenteeism if necessary.

·        Control overtime and agency costs ensuring costs are justified in advance and remain within agreed budget levels.

·        Identify areas of improvement and execute change to/or adjust existing work procedures and practices.

·        Continuously looking for ways to improve efficiencies.

·        Ensuring company are working to required quality and housekeeping standards.

·        Ensure preventative maintenance is kept up to date.

·        Familiarity with 5 “S” and similar lean tools.

Skills and Experience required

·        Must have excellent communication skills and be computer literate

·        Must have leadership and interpersonal skills

·        Must have hands-on commitment to getting the job done

·        Must have MS Office, Email and daily reporting experience

·        Previous experience in a manufacturing / production environment in a role such as Production Team Leader / Shift Team Leader / Shift Supervisor / Production Manager / Line Leader

·        Experience with Continuous Improvement tools would be beneficial.

·        First aid experience would be beneficial but not essential.

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