About the Role

We currently have a vacancy for a motivated team player to join our company as a Team Leader working within our Plastics department in Leeds.

Your Duties and Responsibilities:

In this role you will manage the Plastics area and Technicians to get the best out of the team, manage costs and to deliver excellent customer service. The Team Leader has a vital role in ensuring that products flows, that processes are constantly improved and productivity targets are met.

In addition, you will:

• Act as a direct link from shop floor to management, and liaise with Customer Service as to production status
• Manage HR responsibilities for the team (Performance objective setting and appraisals, Holidays, Sickness, Back to Work interviews, handle Disciplinary issues, etc)
• Work in the capacity of a technician in addition to Team Leader duties as required
• Establish, maintain and improve KPI’s (key performance indicators). Achieve buy in and ownership of these KPI’s from the R&A team.
• Report performance on a regular basis.
• Present business cases to request any resources required to improve performance and resolve issues
• Develop skills to achieve a capable, robust, cross-trained team with a succession plan.
• Provide thorough forward planning and scheduling to ensure sufficient capacity is available taking account of volumes, resources, skills and space.
• Work with fellow team leaders to improve processes and overall production effectiveness.
• Request stock replenishment with stores for the areas.
• Ensure that all NCRs are processed without a backlog and that the relevant information is present
• Work with Clinical Services team to understand customer needs and integrate this information into management action to improve performance.
• Establish and maintain a continuous improvement culture within the production area to encourage employee engagement and contribution towards operational improvements.

The above list is not exhaustive.