Production Team Leader

**Production Team Leader**

**Saint Gobain Industrial Ceramics - Based in Rainford, St Helens**

**Monday to Friday - No shift working**

At Saint-Gobain people matter to us, and we try to show that every day. As part of this, we aim to create an enterprising and innovative working environment, where you have the opportunity to learn new skills and develop your career. _**Did you know we have been awarded top UK & Global Employer 8 Years Running?**_

The primary purpose of the role is to coordinate the department and lead, ensuring all team members understand their contributions required. The Team Leader will be responsible for delivering the production plan for the area of responsibility while coordinating the daily and weekly performance of the team. We are looking for an accomplished and supportive Team Leader able to lead a team of up to 17 production staff in a fast paced, manufacturing environment ensuring safety within the department, and the achievement of production goals. An experienced Team Leader capable of contributing to the delivery of continuous improvement and lean practices across the site while leader a team situationally.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Attends weekly/daily Production meetings to discuss achievement of production plans, and short falls and corrective actions where required.
- Monitors the standards of performance within the team to ensure quality and OTIF (On Time In Full) is achieved.
- Updates the production backlog on a daily basis
- Contribute to the development of a ‘behavioural safety’ culture by ensuring the team record all accidents and near misses and actively take part in hazard spotting, SMAT discussions, and other safety initiatives while conducting safety audits as required.
- Monitoring and updating of SOP’s and Risk Assessments
- Continuous Improvement is an ongoing concern through Quick kaizen projects and also supporting he site CI Engineer with broader lean and continuous improvement projects.
- Runs the Daily Control meetings within the department to communicate daily plans and issues.
- Ensures department works to and performs monthly 5S audits
- Works closely with other departments with regard to manning and any quality concerns
- Stand in Pattern inspection role for plaster shop and Green inspection role for Cast Department
- Ensure compliance with Saint-Gobain company policies and procedures (Health, Safety, Environment, quality, and HR)

**What kind of person are we looking for?**
- Good levels of numeracy and literacy would be required.
- Moderate level of IT skills
- Continuous Improvement / lean / Six Sigma qualification OR experience
- Safety Awareness
- Risk Assessment and Risk Control knowledge
- Proven experience in leading a team in a busy production environment, delivering and achieving production plans, goals, and objectives.
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to build and maintain good working relationships.

‘Making the world a better home’ - Saint-Gobain’s purpose, we have a history spanning more than 350 years and have a responsibility to address the major challenges faced by humanity. We are on a journey to make the world a beautiful and sustainable place to live and have pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

**An evolving world / The future of tomorrow**

We are an equal opportunities employer, we embrace diversity and are on a mission to make our organisation inclusive and accessible to all, we believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.

We want to be a business that you’ll be proud to work for; one that is committed to improving people’s daily life, being responsible, doing the right thing, and preserving the environment by embedding sustainability in all our businesses.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- St Helens, WA11 8LP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: GBR11150