Line Leader

Avon Protection; Melksham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a world leader in protective equipment as a Line Leader, where your leadership will drive productivity and quality in a dynamic manufacturing environment. This role offers the chance to manage a dedicated team, implement continuous improvement strategies, and ensure compliance with health and safety standards. You'll play a crucial part in fostering a culture of excellence and innovation, all while being supported by a company that values its people and their contributions. If you're ready to make a significant impact and grow within a forward-thinking organization, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Medical and health cash-back scheme

Pension matched up to 7.5%

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and basic Microsoft Office proficiency required.
• Experience with MRP systems and understanding of lean manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Manage productivity, quality, and personnel within the assigned cell.
• Implement continuous improvement activities to enhance output and reduce waste.
• Conduct performance management and training for staff.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Microsoft Office Suite

MRP systems

Lean manufacturing philosophy

Problem-solving

Decision-making in fast environments

Teamwork and conflict resolution

Job description

Our success depends on our people and we aim to attract, recruit and retain the most talented individuals to help take our exciting growth story forward.

Location: Melksham, United Kingdom

Job Id: 849

# of Openings: 1

Job Title: Line Leader

We are a world leader in protective equipment, with a reputation for innovative design, high-performance quality and specialist materials expertise. Our two brands, Avon Protection and Team Wendy, supply our respiratory and head protection portfolio to customers across the globe from our manufacturing sites in the UK and North America. With over 900 talented people, our shared purpose and core beliefs are to be #FIERCE about Protecting Lives. It's why we come to work - and it's what motivates us, every day, to do the best work we can.

What We Offer:

• Medical and health cash-back scheme
• Pension matched up to 7.5%

Purpose of Position:

This role will manage output, productivity, quality, and personnel within their assigned cell, train and develop direct reports, and manage discipline of all employees within the cell. This role will also implement continuous improvement activities in line with the ATW Way to increase productivity, reduce scrap, and decrease inventory in their cell, and report on daily figures at tiered meetings about production targets and corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor output to production requirements in their cell on a day-to-day basis and raise any concerns.
• Track productivity, quality and inventory trends over time and implement improvements.
• Performance manage staff within their line that are not performing to required standards.
• Manage all staff within their cell, including logging holidays and sickness and completing return to work interviews.
• Assign labour to workstations, ensuring operators are trained on their given station.
• Complete stage 1 disciplinary investigations and warnings.
• Support value streams to improve and fix systemic process issues.
• Ensure all operators are trained on their assigned processes and are following the standard operating procedure (SOP).
• Compliance with health and safety policies.
• Complete 1:1’s with employees on a twice-yearly basis, identify high potential people and support with their development plans.
• Manage training records and skills matrices, identifying gaps and planning/implementing a training and development plan.
• Responsible for SOP documentation ensuring amendments are made in line with change control procedures and audit as necessary.
• Assist in the planning of and support of trials and sampling.
• Make all operators aware of company procedures and escalate as necessary to ensure it is dealt with promptly by the relevant Engineering/Technical department.
• Maintain the highest level of housekeeping, leading 5S teams to deliver actions and goals as identified from housekeeping audits and the Site Leadership Team.
• Request overtime within area when required, organise with staff.
• Create a culture of Continuous Improvement and a team that adopts change.
• Cover Team absence – step up for Tier 2 on occasion in Production Leader absence.

Requirements:

• Good verbal and written communication.
• Able to use Microsoft Office Suite at a basic level.
• Experience working with MRP systems.
• Lean manufacturing philosophy understanding.
• A positive attitude towards change.
• Understanding of manufacturing operations within area.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Able to make difficult decisions in a fast-moving environment.
• Good team player who can motivate and deal with conflict in an appropriate and professional manner.

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.