Optimised Production Leader

6 months ago

Swansea, United Kingdom Royal Mail Group Full time

**Job reference number** **310850**

Optimised Production Leader - Swansea Mail Centre

Salary starting at £45,043, 10% bonus potential, and 25 days annual leave and pension
Permanent, Full time

Swansea Mail Centre, Swansea Enterprise Park, SA1 1AA

**About Us**
We believe great things are possible and we make them happen. Royal Mail impacts people and businesses in more than 71 million ways, daily. The only company that delivers to every address in the UK, we bring people closer together, help independent businesses grow and make large corporations work better, connecting companies and customers worldwide. We’re driven to take people further; to empower our customers and colleagues to make their futures what they want.

**About the role**

Reporting to the Plant Manager, providing cover when required and flexibility across the 7 day a week operation, the Optimised Production Leader is responsible for leading the production control team in providing a robust production plan that supports the efficient running of the plant and daily achievement of the internal and external workplan, including the accuracy and integrity of workload and hours reporting and plant workplan design. You will also be responsible for:

- Supporting the Plant Manager in the achievement of all plant people, customer, financial, and productivity targets across the balanced scorecard.
- Providing plant ownership and leadership of the production control processes, including forecasting and analysis, resourcing, workplan, and more.
- Supporting the Plant Manager in the deployment of continuous improvement and change management activity.
- Supporting performance across all shifts and driving performance improvements.
- Identification of, engagement, and contact with key customers within plant catchment area to enable effective planning and operation.
- Production of the weekly production plan and communication to all key stakeholders.
- Identifying and monitoring high impact work areas for efficiency improvements through the loss opportunity model.
- Ensuring all seasonal plans are designed to meet our customer and efficiency targets.
- Ensuring deployment and effective use of all business-standard production control systems and tools.
- Overall plant responsibility for the integrity of all traffic and hours systems, databases, and tools.
- Compliance with all relevant legislation and business policies regarding resource management.
- Developing and leading on the business plan to achieve plant year-on-year cost reduction plan or workload absorption.
- Providing timely traffic and hours data to support the daily, weekly, and monthly review of performance in the plant.
- Ensuring hours and headcount system alignment. Ensuring the resourcing to workload approach is robust, maintaining the correct supply mix to clear the model week workload and deliver on the customer and efficiency targets.

**About You**
- Extensive knowledge of plant operations, automation, and of operational production control processes.
- Good understanding of MIST and Master Duty Set (MDS), or related systems, and production control toolsets.
- Good knowledge of HR processes and procedures and working knowledge Continuous Improvement.
- Strong leadership skills with ability to coach, develop and support others.
- Strong people skills, with ability to build effective relationships, communicate, influence, and persuade at all levels.
- Excellent analytical skills, highly numerate, with ability to evaluate performance, identify trends and implement improvements.
- Able to develop plans, assess risks and issues, and deploy to cost, quality and timescale parameters.

Desirably:

- Previous experience of plant operations and production control processes.
- The ability to convey specific knowledge, with a clear objective, maintaining the focus of the team.
- Successful deployment of change, being able to challenge traditional ways of working.

**Extra Benefits**
- Generous holiday entitlement of 5 weeks (plus bank holidays), increasing with years completed service.
- Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates
- RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer.
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
- Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
- Supportive and generous company sick pay.
- Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
- Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*.
- Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital &

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