Group Lead

Siemens Gamesa; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A renewable energy company seeks a Group Lead (Production Shift Manager) to oversee a large team in its Hull Blade Factory. The successful candidate will be responsible for team performance, safety, and quality, ensuring KPI targets are met. Candidates should have experience in leadership within a manufacturing environment and strong decision-making skills. This role offers personal development opportunities and competitive benefits, aligning with the company's mission for sustainability.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Company pension scheme

Gym membership

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams in a manufacturing/production environment.
• Experience in the wind industry is a plus but not essential.
• Excellent decision-making skills with a focus on innovative problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Production Operatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Ensure delivery of key performance targets across the shift.
• Manage resources efficiently to ensure safety and quality.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Team management

Production planning

Job description

Role Overview

Siemens Gamesa has a vision for renewable energy. We believe in the power of nature and technology. Help us to be ready to face the energy challenges of tomorrow and make a green footprint – join us in creating a better future for our planet.

We focus on hiring the best people, wherever they may be in the world. We pride ourselves on the flexibility we offer to our employees and are committed to building a workforce that can grow with the company. Siemens Gamesa is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

In our culture of trust, we focus on empowerment, diversity, and continuous learning. Valuing our people is what makes us one global team, with our colleagues’ safety at the heart of our organization.

Contribute to our vision

We are recruiting for an effective and high performing individual to join our Hull Blade Factory team in the role of Group Lead (Production Shift Manager).

As a Group Lead (Production Shift Manager) you will be responsibility for leading a large team of Production Operatives in a fast-paced environment. You will take full responsibility for performance, ensuring your team has clear direction and a high level of engagement, delivering all activities safely and efficiently.

This is an opportunity to be part of a growing team within a dynamic business, delivering innovation in our renewable energy division.

Some of your key tasks will include but not be limited to:

• Responsible for delivery of SQDCP (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People) and ensuring key KPI targets are achieved across the shift
• Ensuring the correct reporting of incidents and accidents, near misses and unsafe acts and condition
• Ensuring optimum utilization of resources
• Ensuring manufacturing guidelines, processes, and procedures are followed to ensure safe delivery of a high-quality product on time every time
• Leading and supervising assigned Team Leaders and Operatives across a wide area of disciplines
• Clear, concise, and effective communications to your team.
• Responsible for performance management across the team
• Effective and thorough implementation of the blade handover process
• Leading team in ensuring correct Prisma bookings are adhered to with full understanding of routing importance, managing own teams spend budget for workwear and consumables
• Management of competence across the operational area
• Ownership of the HR process for all employees within operational are
• Hold constructive feedback dialogues to ensure right first time performance is achieved.
• Ownership of operational standards including but not limited to 5S, housekeeping, short interval control and process validation.
• Ownership of takt adherence and line balancing across operational area
• Ownership for the review of all task related risk assessment within the operational area

What you need to make a difference

Passion for renewable energy and the importance to lead the change.

Desired skills and experience

• Leadership – experienced in managing and directing teams in a manufacturing/production environment preferable
• Experienced in working in the wind industry desirable but not essential – other applicable industry experience will be considered
• Possesses excellent decision-making skills and an innovative approach to problem solving – previous experience in resolving issues and supporting high performing, successful teams
• Experienced in working with and delivering production plans and associated disciplines

In return of your commitment, we offer you…

• Personal and professional development to grow internally within our organization
• Becoming part of our mission for sustainability: Clean energy for generations to come
• To work with a global team of diverse colleagues who share our passion for renewable energy
• Trust and empowerment to make your own ideas reality
• Company benefits including competitive pension scheme

Siemens Gamesa offers a wide variety of benefits such as flexible working hours as well as home-office possibility for many colleagues, employer-funded pension, attractive remuneration package (fixed/variable) and local benefits such as subsided lunch, gym membership, employee discounts and much more.

Become a part of our mission for sustainability: Clean energy for generations to come. We are a global team of diverse colleagues who share a passion for renewable energy and have a culture of trust and empowerment to make our own ideas a reality. We focus on personal and professional development to grow internally within our organisation.

Empowering our people

https://www.siemensgamesa.com/sustainability/employees

How do you imagine the future?

https://youtu.be/12Sm678tjuY

Our global team is on the front line of tackling the climate crisis, reducing carbon emissions – the greatest challenge we face.

We believe diversity creates more opportunity for success. That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life: it doesn’t matter the gender, age, ethnic background, sexual orientation or disability. Our main aim is to find people from around the globe who can contribute to world-changing technology.