Team Leader

Husco provides individuals the opportunity to pursue a career within a fast-paced, industry leading and entrepreneurial organisation. The Team Leader is responsible for ensuring that each area achieves the daily output targets whilst maintaining the safety, quality and procedural expectations of the company.

The position requires experienced manufacturing knowledge along with leadership experience. The person must be able to communicate at all levels both within the immediate team, and other key functional areas.

**PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES**
- **Resource Optimization. **Reviews manning within areas of responsibility, flagging risks to Supervisors and working with Supervisors to identify solutions. Co-ordinates activities within the area to ensure that equipment and labour is utilized to its’ full potential. Ensures that lines are full at the start of shift. Expedites priorities, ensuring that operators are working on product in order of priority, and ensuring that parts, kits and housings are all available and presented to the cell on time. Supports effective utilisation of operator team by taking responsibility for movement of finished housings to tollgate.
- **Problem Solving. **Co-ordinates root-cause analysis, CCAR and red-tag activity. Communicates effectively with cross functional teams such as QA & Process Engineering, Design Engineering, Maintenance and Sales and Operations Planning - working with teams to identify solutions to operational issues. Communicates issues promptly and participates in identifying solutions to issues affecting production and quality.
- **Production Operations. **Directs and coordinates area activity to meet performance objectives related to safety, quality, delivery and productivity. Ensures production record keeping and reporting is properly maintained i.e shift trackers, Conducts tool calibration / setting and high-level PMI’s and coordinates lower-level PMIs, ensuring that calibrations and inspections are consistently enforced across all areas of responsibility. Maintains 5S standards, reporting any issues promptly to management and logging maintenance requests, Chirp-Ups and IS Helpdesk requests as required. Updates Communications Board and Metrics, ensuring that cell performance is effectively tracked, displayed and communicated. Completes re-work to support the operation as required. Conducts process audits, identifying and rectifying process failures pre-tollgate, and flagging any remedial training / communication activity required as a result.
- **Champion for Safety and the Environment. **Proactively drive improved safety and environmental working practices with the intent of eliminating recordable and / or lost time injuries. Promptly reports hazards, leads the implementation of containment actions and actively participates in identify corrective actions. Responsible for housekeeping in accordance with 5S principles and the handling / disposal of scrap and other waste streams.
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Provide Exemplary Internal / External Customer Service & Communication.** Work closely with internal product and manufacturing engineering to execute requests, respond to questions and build collaboration across teams as necessary. Communicates all shift issues to Manufacturing Area Manager and Manufacturing Process Engineers, submits maintenance requests, employee absences and shift and employee performance issues. Closes communication loops by seeking and providing constructive feedback for both operators and cross-functional teams. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, both vertically and cross functionally. Promptly and effectively communicates issues, whilst offering ideas and solutions to problems and ideas for improving the operational performance of the area. Ensures that there is an effective shift handover to all interested parties.
- **Employee Development. **Provide coaching and guidance to operators which aligns with the corporate objectives and strategies. Demonstrates core cultural competencies to other employees and improves operational performance / abilities of subordinates through training and coaching. Ensure actions are aligned to HUSCO’s core values and cultural expectations. Co-ordinates training activities, ensuring that training documents are updated and provided to the QA team.
- **Strong Team Player and Contributor.** Able to work well with colleagues and produce results within a fast-paced and high pressure atmosphere. Combines strong attention to detail with an orientation towards results/execution. Provides direct production cover where required.

**ADDITIONAL DETAILS**:
**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**Significant experience within a manufacturing environment essential- NVQ in Business Improvement Techniques or similar Engineering / Manufacturing discipline preferred- Computer literacy essential, with experience of Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word- Effective trouble shooting, problem solving and organizational skills. Able to handle frequent i