Shift Manufacturing Team Leader

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

**Shift Manufacturing Team Leader**

**Templecombe**

**Our Opportunity**:
Due to the increase in workload the Towed Array Integrated Product Team we have a requirement to appoint a Team Leader for the manufacturing Electrical Team.

This position is within a team of personnel who are responsible for the manufacture, repair & refurbishment of around 60 Towed Array modules per year. The key driver is achievement of set customer delivery milestones.

The key focus is to ensure we provide a consistent quality product to support all our UK & Export customers.

**Principal Relationships**:

- Wiring & Mechanical Technician
- Manufacturing Planners
- Other Team Leaders
- Cell Manager
- Quality Assurance
- Design Authority/Engineers
- Customer representative for Factory Acceptance Testing

**What the role has to offer**:
**Team Leader (Role and responsibility)**
- He (or she) has as main mission is the realization of the production in accordance with the plan, quality, costs and continuous improvement of performance.
- He (or she) insures the conformity of the product to specifications.
- He (or she) manages production resources (operators skills) and equipment (capability and availability) according to plans.
- He (or she) identifies potential non-conformities.

**Responsibilities**

**HSE**
- Team Leaders are responsible to the Industrial Cell Manager (ICM) for the effective day to day operation of the facility.
- Ensure that any HSE issues or production concerns are raised to the ICM through SIM meetings
- Ensure that safe working practices are followed
- Ensure that tools and equipment are fit for purpose and checked in accordance with company and statutory requirements

**Planning**
- Plan, at a local level, all the jobs loaded to the shop in accordance with agreed completion dates
- Communicate progress and any adjustment to the original planned dates

**Resources (Staff)**
- Responsible for managing the manufacturing resources
- Development of staff
- Identifying and delivering training requirements
- Identifying and delivering staff skills to achieve 131 skill matrix

**Tooling, facility and equipment**
- Responsible for managing tooling, facility and equipment resources to meet the requirements of the local plan
- Identification tooling requirements meet the demands of the department
- Maximising availability

**Manufacturing Activity**
- Responsible for ensuring manufacturing activity is conducted to the plan whilst ensuring the process lead times, quality standards and budget hours are met.
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to Chorus process and local work instructions with main emphasis on Static Handling, Magnetic Hygiene, Maintenance and Calibration requirements
- Responsible for the success of 5S activity in the local manufacturing area

**Improvement**
- Contributes to continuous improvement activity to target reductions in lead time and process hours whilst maintaining exacting quality requirements
- Responsible for co-ordination of kaizen activity in the area.
- Supporting Green Belt and Black Belt projects in the manufacturing area.

**Experience required**:
Must have proven recorded of leadership. Ideally form a manufacturing background.

**Qualifications**:

- City & Guilds Electronics or equivalent.
- ONC/BTEC Electronics or equivalent Key desirable skills required for the position

**What We Can Offer**

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you will have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

**Flexibility**