Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental procedures and legislation.
• Ensure that product quality exceeds customer expectations (internal & external).
• Ensure ‘Green’ repairs are effective whilst investigating root cause analysis to ‘design’ in quality.
• Manage compliance with QA inspections ensuring daily QC checks are performed above 90% RFT and reported at daily KPI meeting.
• Delivery of production outputs in line with targets and objectives.
• Meet or exceed consistent & sustained achievements against specific KPI targets around OEE, FPE, CTP, Quality, Costs & Efficiencies.
• Effective management of all resources to ensure just in time delivery of materials and other resources aligned to delivery of production plan.
• Identification & implementation of productivity improvements using lean principles.
• Be aware of associated costs of production and endeavour to reduce, using the 8-waste principles, where possible.
• Train and develop the production team to maximise efficiency and staff development.
• Contribute to improvement initiatives and developments and provide any other services as required in support of these initiatives.
• Produce weekly reports summarizing plant performance & improvement objectives.

Accountabilities

• Manage Team Leaders/Supervisors and their team members, providing feedback, conducting performance reviews, ensuring policy compliance.
• Ensure all team members and new starters understand their duties and responsibilities for safe working (trainings, competency, SOPs, RAs).
• Manage staffing rosters to maintain optimum complement, authorise overtime as needed.
• Manage attendance and timekeeping, take initial action on poor timekeeping and unauthorised absence.
• Manage sickness absence, including reporting and return-to-work processes.
• Ensure team members adhere to expected standards of behaviour; maintain discipline.
• Organise and lead pre-shift briefings, keep team updated with company communications.
• Cooperate with HR on investigations, policy meetings, performance reviews, etc.

Key Experience, Qualifications and Skills

• Experience implementing Lean / leading Continuous Improvement events. Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent.
• Operational leadership experience in construction end-product, precast concrete or manufacturing environments (casting, setting, pouring) – minimum 5 years.
• Experience managing people with confidence to tackle performance and related issues, ensuring HR compliance.
• Specific knowledge of managing production teams and company policies on Health & Safety, Discipline, Attendance, etc.
• Degree or equivalent higher education preferred but not essential.
• MS Office and strong computer skills.
• Minimum IOSH Managing Safely (preferably NEBOSH General Certificate).
• VFL Training, First Aid (Emergency Responder) preferred.
• Train the Trainer programme.
• [Employer hidden] first-line supervisor modules as listed.
• Satisfy role requirements in GT Production Skills & Competencies Matrix.

Safety Behaviours

• Communicate and share the Company’s vision for safety.
• Regularly review team members’ knowledge of safe working practices.
• Hold self and others accountable for clear safety standards.
• Ensure safety in operational, technical and business decisions.
• Assess resources needed for safe performance.
• Take personal involvement in achieving safety objectives.
• Treat safety issues proportionally and consistently.

Personal Qualities

• Influential and capable of engaging/inspiring people.
• Tenacity, resilience, positive disposition, can-do attitude, assertiveness, determination.
• Commitment to continued professional development.

Apply for this position

If interested, please enclose a covering letter and CV and send by email using the Apply Now button, or by post to: Human Resources, [Employer hidden] Ltd, Littlewell Lane, Stanton by Dale, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 4QW. Strictly no agencies at this time.