Production Leader

Brose; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global manufacturing company in Coventry is seeking an experienced Production Leader to guide a multi-functional team in achieving world-class production standards. Responsibilities include driving quality improvement, managing budgets, and building effective operational teams. Ideal candidates will have a degree in Production or Engineering, leadership experience in manufacturing, and strong communication skills. Applicants should be passionate about employee engagement and continuous improvement within a lean environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced in leading teams in a manufacturing/JIT environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage diverse teams.
• Strong people management approach focused on employee engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-functional team to achieve production targets.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and quality standards.
• Manage budgets and monitor KPIs for production efficiency.

Skills

Leadership

Lean management

Communication

Team building

Capacity planning

Education

Degree or equivalent in Production or Engineering

Job description

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company's success. We are seeking an experienced Production Leader who will lead a multi functional team in the manufacture of welded/ painted/ assembled and tested products to world class quality standards. You will be responsible for ensuring that your team and the production achieves the business targets for HS&E, Quality, Cost and Delivery for current production/ aftersales and new programme introductions. This is a significant leadership role that requires a wide range of skills to deliver and drive lean improvements through great engagement with our talented people.

• Communicate, lead, and inspire in line with the Brose FIRST Principles so that our teams can achieve their full potential.
• Drive Quality and Continual Improvement in line with our Brose Production System and the Company's Mission, vision, and strategic goals
• Build and lead an effective operational team, including recruitment, training, coaching, developing and performance reviews
• Liaise and develop close working relationship with customers and suppliers
• Capacity planning, monitoring for all resources; manpower, machines, methods, and materials
• Plan and execute budgets, monitor and drive KPIs and improve the enablers to drive results, for all aspects of the business
• Working with our customer teams, both locally and in the headquarters ensuring effective controlled change management including new program introduction
• Absence and Disciplinary management
• Degree or equivalent in Production or Engineering
• Previous experience in leading teams in a manufacturing / JIT environment. We do not believe that this position would suit someone stepping into Leadership for the first time.
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work well with employees at different levels, leading cross-functional teams and possesses the ability to make sound business decisions and escal... (text truncated for brevity)
• Strong, demonstrable people management experience, that is employee centric in approach and someone who possess the passion to achieve through sustaining trusted and open relationships.
• Embracing Lean leadership behaviours to drive day-to-day improvement activity like 5S and longer-term lean projects to enable continuous improvement in performance and the way we operate. Encouraging participation in our employee recognition and IDEAs schemes.
• Demonstrating ability to respond at pace, to changing demands through robust planning, teamwork, and collaboration