Manufacturing Team Leader - Production & Quality Champion

Artifex; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Artifex in Birmingham is seeking a Team Leader at the Elmdon Plant to own day-to-day people and production activity in an assigned assembly area. You will help ensure operations run safely, efficiently and to quality standards by coordinating resources, monitoring hourly performance and responding quickly to issues.

This role offers visible leadership in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, setting clear expectations, developing colleagues, and working with support teams to maintain

Qualifications

• Experience leading or coordinating people in a production/manufacturing environment.
• Ability to manage changing operational priorities and respond effectively to production, quality and safety issues.
• Competence in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Lead employees across the assigned area and coordinate production colleagues, forklift drivers and technicians to run to plan.
• Monitor hourly performance, maintain pace boards and enforce first-off approvals and quality checks.
• Control non-conforming products and maintain training records; support attendance and performance management.
• Prioritise health, safety and wellbeing, enforce PPE use and respond to hazards and near-misses.
• Drive continuous improvement through structured problem-solving and 5S/housekeeping.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Education

Team-leading qualification

Tools

IATF 16949

ISO 9001

Job description

Artifex in Birmingham is seeking a Team Leader at the Elmdon Plant to own day-to-day people and production activity in an assigned assembly area. You will help ensure operations run safely, efficiently and to quality standards by coordinating resources, monitoring hourly performance and responding quickly to issues.

This role offers visible leadership in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, setting clear expectations, developing colleagues, and working with support teams to maintain