The Team Lead, appointed on a 12-month fixed-term contract, will be responsible for providing effective leadership and direction to a production team, ensuring the achievement of operational objectives, performance standards, and continuous improvement initiatives while maintaining the highest levels of safety, quality, and employee engagement.
- The Team Lead role in Segmentation involves working with the cross functional team to ensure all operational goals and targets are met
- Effectively manage Production Team Members including absence management, performance management, mentoring and coaching
- Own day-to-day KPIs and reporting while coordinating with support functions
- Ensure the Business Unit achieves required production, service and productivity targets
- Drive World Class Manufacturing activities including process confirmations, Practical Problem Solving (PPS), Continuous Improvement, 6S, 3Cs and team development
- Promote Visible Felt Leadership (VFL) and adherence to health and safety standards
- Work effectively with staff members at all levels of the company
Duties and Tasks
- Support the management of the Segmentation production area, taking wider responsibility for safety, quality, people, delivery, cost, productivity, yield, equipment performance and operational control
- Champion World Class Manufacturing and Operational Excellence, driving improvements in safety, quality, flow, consistency, waste reduction and process capability through implementation of the E6 production system
- Manage Team Lead KPIs in line with targets i.e. monthly WRACs, PPS’s, safety reporting, VFLs and risk assessments
- Champion a culture of always putting safety first, ensuring safe production practices at all times. Supporting production team members to raise and address safety concerns in a timely manner, using company reporting systems
- Drive daily actions around key metrics in conjunction with Shift Leads, i.e. PA, throughput, velocity, recoveries, variances and machine utilization
- Ensure all shifts in the Business Unit are aligned to operational goals, priorities and standards, with consistent communication, escalation and handover across shifts
- Coach and support team members to achieve performance expectations, build capability and sustain adherence to agreed operating standards
- Lead or support transformational, capacity, quality, cost and process improvement projects as required
- Maintain Segmentation daily data sources and dashboards i.e. PA tracker, WIP trackers, Slicing Dashboard etc
- Utilise daily production metrics to drive decision making in the area i.e. recoveries vs IBP target, understanding drivers behind negative variances, etc
- Work with Process Engineering to support process development, troubleshooting, trials, validation, capability improvement and the introduction of approved process or equipment changes into production.
- Provide structured operational feedback to Process Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Planning and Supply Chain, ensuring recurring losses and process issues are supported by clear data, defined problem statements and agreed actions.
- Strong people management/ leadership skills with the ability to lead, communicate and influence team members
- Experience in a similar manufacturing role with lean and process improvement knowledge. Green Belt certification is an advantage
- Strong PowerBi skills are desirable
- Strong understanding of manufacturing loss analysis, process capability, yield improvement, equipment performance and structured root-cause problem solving
- Knowledge of Databricks and ability to create relevant data queries is an advantage
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills required
- Ability to use production and process data to identify losses, priorities actions and drive effective operational decisions
- Open to new methodologies and able to follow up independently
- Motivated individual with a strong can-do attitude and ability to think outside the box
- Good interpersonal and communication skills across multiple levels and mediums
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Appreciation of world-class manufacturing tools and techniques
- Strong working knowledge of World Class Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, standard work and continuous improvement tools and techniques.
- Knowledge of JDE, DAS and Geneo systems is desirable