Production Leader

**Job Description**:
**Production Leader**

**Full time**

**Trentham (site-based role)**

We have an outstanding opportunity for you to join us and support the Operations leadership team here at Ross Ceramics in Trentham. Ross Ceramics is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rolls-Royce group, part of Rolls-Royce Turbines Operating Business Unit, and we manufacture precision ceramic cores that form part of the investment casting process.

In this role, you will lead a large team who are manufacturing amazing products and play a critical role in delivering to our customers. You will work collaboratively across a wide range of functions and be responsible for integrating their activities to deliver on time every time to the right quality and cost. It is a significant leadership role that requires a wide range of skills to deliver and drive lean improvements through great engagement with our talented people.

We deliver the best jet engines in the world. We’re proud to be part of the pathway to net zero as we power society for generations to come.

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

This is an interesting opportunity to work in a busy, world-class engineering and manufacturing environment and you will be accountable for HS&E, quality, and delivery within the Operations team.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.

**What you will be doing**:
Leading a team of talented individuals, you will:

- Communicate, lead, and inspire so that our teams can achieve their full potential.
- Deliver the customer requirement through engagement with the works team.
- Ensuring that quality is at the heart of the way we operate, and that the importance of compliance is reflected in how we work.
- Ensuring that our people go home safely every day, by driving compliance to our health and safety standards as well as assessing and actively managing risk.
- Embracing Lean leadership behaviours to drive day-to day improvement activity like 5S and longer-term lean projects to enable continuous improvement in performance and the way we operate.
- Working in multiple areas with different teams to deliver cross functional KPI-s at a cell level.
- Embracing Lean leadership behaviours to drive day-to day improvement activity like 5S and longer-term lean projects to enable continuous improvement.

**What we’re looking for**:
At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
- Previous experience in leading teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Good communications skills and ability to work well with leadership at different levels and cross-functional teams.
- Some project work experience will be beneficial. Ideally experience of working on transformation projects and familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean.
- Experience delivering improved manufacturing performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilizing cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrating ability to respond at pace, to changing demands through robust planning and control methodology.

**Join us & **Power our future

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives.

And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

**Closing Date**:11th July 2023

**Job Category**:
Manufacturing

**Posting Date**:
27 Jun 2023; 00:06