Production Leader

4 weeks ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

**Job Title**:Production Leader

**Location**:Gloucester Factory

**JOB PURPOSE**

The production leader is responsible for the organisation, planning & coordination of activities for a defined production unit within the factory. This includes action tracking on safety & quality, KPI capture & analysis, collaboratively creating production schedules with planning, recruitment, supporting labour planning & receiving projects & innovations.

KPIs & KAIs - OEE, Waste, Cost of Quality, D-Incidents, Blocked Stock, Housekeeping & Hygiene Scores, Safety Leading Indicators

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- ** Technical / Functional **- production leaders need to have a strong background in manufacturing. They should have a firm grasp on the principles of production scheduling, continuous improvement, loss capture, safety standards, quality standards and incident management.
- ** Safety**
- ** Action Tracking** - Collates information from all sources to generate the safety action plan, including but not limited to machinery safety, incident investigations, CSHEC minutes, SBO/DCAs, near misses, SHEPAR. Expected to drive these actions to completion through working with relevant colleagues.
- ** Audits - **Expected to carry out and follow up safety audits in line with site requirements.
- ** Risk Assessments - **tracks and drives the progress of risk assessment completion.
- ** Incident Investigations **- carry out investigations for serious incidents that require coordination across shifts.
- ** KPI Collation **- working with the safety teams to ensure that relevant KPIs & KAIs are collated and shared with the production teams.
- ** Quality**
- ** Action Tracking** - Collates information from all sources to generate the quality action plan, including but not limited to housekeeping & hygiene, incident investigations,. Expected to drive these actions to completion through working with relevant colleagues.
- ** Audits - **Expected to carry out and follow up quality audits in line with site requirements.
- ** External Audit Support - **first point of contact for their area for support on external audits.
- ** Incident Investigations **- carry out investigations for serious incidents that require coordination across shifts.
- ** KPI Collation **- working with the safety teams to ensure that relevant KPIs & KAIs are collated and shared with the production teams.
- ** Operational Activities**:

- ** Daily Coordination** - Ensures that relevant communication and execution plans & materials are in place for relevant members of the team. Attends mornings meetings within the factory operating system & consolidates inputs into an action plan. Responds to any operational disruptions to reset plans where the impact spans across multiple shifts e.g., material shortages, production plan changes, etc.
- ** Weekend Planning - **Ensures that the weekend plans are clearly communicated to all shift managers & that monitoring & measuring mechanisms are in place for review the following week.
- ** Weekly Coordination **- Prepares the inputs for the weekly production meeting including updated actions, KPIs, production plans & projects.
- ** Production Planning - **Responsible for agreeing the weekly production schedules in collaboration with the planning department. Must ensure this is robustly communicated along with any changes to the production teams.
- ** Labour Planning - **ensures that the production, labour & activity plans are aligned and proactively works to address any areas of misalignment.
- ** Execution Support - **Where required, supports shift managers on the shop floor to drive activities including briefs, changeovers, cleaning and projects.
- ** Rectification**:

- works with the quality and production teams to develop & execute plans for the rectification or destruction of blocked stock.
- ** Detailed Activity Planning** - responsible for preparing detailed activity plans for downtime. This includes scheduled cleaning, maintenance, projects, start-ups & shutdowns. In some cases, there will be an expectation to support in driving the execution of these activities.
- ** Projects**
- ** Receiving** - The first point of contact for all projects landing in the production area, whether related to engineering, systems, innovations or processes. The expectation is for these to be properly coordinated and integrated into the team plans.
- ** Planning** - Collaborating with planning teams to ensure seamless scheduling of project activities.
- ** People Management**
- ** Direct Reports**:

- this role has no direct reports.
- ** Employee Relations **- production leaders are expected to carry out disciplinary investigations / hearings and to hear grievances where required in their area.
- ** Continuous Improvement** - Has knowledge and understanding of the key principles of continuous improvement and an awareness of the tools used to identify and prioritise time, cost and waste losses in the production area and eliminate them; role requires data



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