Production Leader

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Job Description

Production Leader

Full time

Stoke on Trent (Trentham), site-based role

Why Rolls- Royce?

We have an interesting opportunity for a Production Leader to join our team at Ross Ceramics in Trentham.

Ross Ceramics is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rolls-Royce group. We manufacture precision ceramic cores that form part of the investment casting process.

Your role as Production Leader here is a significant leadership role that requires a wide range of skills to deliver to our customers and drive lean improvement through great engagement while leading a team of talented people.

You will lead a large team who are manufacturing amazing products and play a critical part 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.

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. We will support your personal and professional growth through a wide range of development frameworks to enable you to continue your leadership development journey.

Work at Rolls-Royce in a busy, world-class manufacturing and engineering environment.

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

What you will be doing:

You will lead a team of talented people and will also:

• Lead, inspire and recruit the team to deliver excellence through brilliant 2-way communication.
• Coaching and performance management of the team to achieve their full potential.
• Deliver the customer requirements through robust production load and capacity planning.
• Meeting budget and ensuring availability of resources to meet the customer schedules now and in the future.
• Ensuring that quality is at the heart of the way we operate.
• Ensuring our people go home safely every day by driving compliance to our health and safety standards. Assessing and pro-actively managing risk.
• Embracing Lean leadership behaviours. Driving day-to day improvement activities like 5S and longer-term lean projects to enable continuous improvement in the performance and the way we operate.

Who we are 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 and for this role in particular:

• Experience in leading large teams of over 40 people. Ideally, you have led teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Attended higher education/equivalent and leadership development programmes.
• Experience of leading transformation projects and familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma and lean (Green or Black belt accreditation would be beneficial).
• Good record of delivering improved manufacturing performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilizing cross-functional teams.
• Experience of leading people change within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrating ability to respond at pace, to changing demands through robust planning and control methodology.

Join us & Make an impact

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

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