Production Lead

Brambles; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Greater London seeks a Shift Leader to support operational excellence across safety, service, quality, and cost. The role involves supervising teams, driving continuous improvements, and ensuring compliance with policies. Candidates should demonstrate strong leadership skills and a commitment to safety in an on-site environment. This position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example within the assigned functional area.
• Actively support production activities to maintain workflow.
• Collaborate with plant administration to ensure policies compliance.
• Assist Plant leadership in ensuring operational efficiency.
• Act as a subject matter expert for specialized areas.
• Fulfil assigned production duties ensuring quality and efficiency.
• Supervise and develop employees for good relationships with management.
• Drive continuous improvement based on data analysis.
• Own all quality related issues on their site.
• Conduct tours in the Management Observation Tool.
• Lead root cause analysis of all incidents.
• Control Yard and Warehouse movements effectively.
• Hold daily shift briefs and report KPIs.
• Monitor responses to zero harm and production KPI.
• Manage employee holidays in compliance with policy.

Skills

Adaptability

Active Learning

Curiosity

Empathy

Initiative

Emotional Intelligence

Digital Literacy

Problem Solving

Cross-Functional Work

Job description

Description

Sunday - Thursday, night shift; 2200 - 0600

About the Role:

Serve as the functional subject matter expert and peer leader for the assigned area, ensuring operational excellence in safety, service, quality, and cost.

Provide hands‑on support to teams, driving performance to exceed expectations and contribute to customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities may include:

• Lead by example within the assigned functional area, offering guidance and support to peers, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring smooth production operations.
• Actively support production activities, stepping in during shifts or breaks to maintain workflow and operational continuity.
• Collaborate with plant administration to ensure adherence to established policies and procedures, promoting consistency and operational compliance.
• Assist Plant leadership in enforcing policies and procedures to maintain inventory accuracy and ensure operational efficiency.
• Act as the subject matter expert for specialized areas, such as forklift operations, pallet sorting, or repair lines, providing expertise and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Fulfil assigned production duties, ensuring quality and efficiency in line with plant performance goals.

The primary purpose of the role is to deputies for and support the Site Lead and promote continuous improvement in production, safety and quality metrics and provide leadership to operations teams on site. Build and maintain good relations with 3rd party management teams

• Supervise, develop, and coach employees to build and maintain good relationships with third party management teams.
• Continuous improvement via systemic change based on data and root cause (i.e. Data analysis and improvement / correction plans)
• Ownership and control of all quality related issues on their site / shift.
• Drive a zero-harm culture within the site / shift.Conduct tours in the 1-CHEP Management Observation Tool (MOT)
• Lead root cause analysis of all incidents that happen on shift.
• Recognise change as necessary and willingly share knowledge across business areas.
• Adapt and learn in new situations.
• Control Yard and Warehouse movements delegating relevant tasks to FLT drivers bearing in mind warehouse needs.
• Hold daily shift briefs and report plant KPIs.
• Monitor and ensure consistent, timely responses to all relating to zero harm and production KPI.
• Owning the controls on safety, quality, production.
• Assist in monitoring of employee’s holidays in compliance with the holiday policy booking system.
• Monitor and ensure consistent, timely responses to all relating to zero harm and production.
• Managing and monitoring absence levels in accordance with Company procedures.
• Deputise for the Site Lead in their absence.

Remote Type

Not Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Adaptabilité, Apprentissage actif, Curiosity, Empathie, Initiative, Intelligence émotionnelle, Littératie numérique, Résolution de problème, Travail interfonctionnel

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.