Finishing Team Leader

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 April 2026
LOCATION
Elsham
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Manufacturing
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SKILLS

Team Leadership Manufacturing Health & Safety Quality Control Problem-solving Communication Planning Compliance

FULL DESCRIPTION

The Finishing Team Leader will provide guidance, instruction, direction, and leadership to the slitting team to achieve key results against KPIs. Responsibilities include leading and motivating the team, ensuring adherence to health and safety policies, driving a culture of quality, providing hands-on leadership, reviewing customer complaints, supporting the planning team, monitoring stock accuracy, adjusting labor, mentoring staff, and reporting on production metrics.

Finishing Team Leader

##### Posted: 6th January, 2026

##### Title: Finishing Team Leader

##### Department: Finishing Department

##### Location: Elsham, UK

###### Purpose:

Do you have a proven experience as a Team Leader within a manufacturing environment and are able to provide guidance, instruction, direction, and leadership to the slitting team for the purpose of achieving key results against our KPIs.

If it is YOU, who believe You can contribute to our team, we would like to encourage You to apply and join Finishing Department at our [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Elsham site.

##### Responsibilities:

  • Lead and motivate a team of Slitting Operators and Runners to achieve Department and site goals
  • Ensure strict adherence to Health & Safety Policies and instructions
  • Drive a culture of quality and compliance in all manufacturing processes
  • Provide hands-on leadership and guidance on the shop floor
  • Review customer complaints with Operators and feedback all findings and corrective actions
  • Liaise and support the planning team to ensure each asset is planned in the most efficient order to balance across all internal & external KPI’s
  • Monitor all stocks and ensure stock accuracy across the department
  • Adjust labour to enable department to meet plan and supply customer requirements on time on a shift-by-shift basis
  • Mentor all Finishing staff to maximise skill sets and become a role model for them ensuring all training are completed on time
  • Report on production metrics to senior management
  • Collaborate with other departments to achieve company objectives

##### A successful Team Leader should have:

  • Proven experience as a Team Leader within an FMCG environment
  • Able to plan and organise work schedules in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to inspire and engage a team
  • In-depth knowledge of safety, quality, and compliance standards
  • A real passion for developing yourself and others whilst contributing as part of a wider team
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities with a proactive approach
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Technical knowledge is relevant to the manufacturing sector.

The above list of job responsibilities is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the post.

*FOR INTERESTED APPLICANTS:* *If you are interested in this position, please send a brief cover letter, resume, please state the job title applying for and any other relevant material for the candidacy to [contact hidden]. Thank you!*

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