Production Leader

Rolls-Royce; Derby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the industrial machinery manufacturing industry seeks a Production Leader. This role focuses on inspiring and coaching a team, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will have management experience in an engineering environment and a strong background in lean methodologies.

Qualifications

• Experience in the manufacturing sector.
• Understanding of different disciplines and product integrity.
• Experience with lean and six sigma methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a manufacturing team ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Drive performance towards Zero Harm and Zero Defects.
• Manage cell cost centre budget and team productivity.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Continuous Improvement

Problem-Solving

Education

Higher Education or Leadership Development

Job description

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Job Description

To lead, inspire and coach a team within a defined manufacturing cell. Accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards.

Job Description

To lead, inspire and coach a team within a defined manufacturing cell. Accountable for ensuring that customer commitments are met in full, measured against agreed HSE, quality, cost, delivery, people and responsiveness standards.

Key Accountabilities

• HSE - Drive towards a performance and culture of Zero Harm. Ensuring our teams are trained and compliant to safety standards, driving environmental targets and promoting wellbeing.
• PRODUCT SAFETY - Accountable for ensuring that all work is carried out in compliance with the required standard to ensure conformance to the engineering specification, and for promoting a product safety culture in the organisation.
• QUALITY - Drive to Zero Defects. Work with all functions to reduce risks and drive product and service right first time. Ensure compliance to all relevant company legislative and technical policies and standards.
• COST - Develop and manage agreed people budget (headcount, productivity, absenteeism). Understand and manage the cell cost centre budget and work with the team to drive productivity and reduce consumable cost.
• DELIVERY - Deliver our products and services to customer commitments on time. Plan using load and capacity tools and manage bottlenecks and constraints to achieve flow through the cell. Understand WIP and inventory levels and drive to meet business targets.
• PEOPLE - Optimise the capability and capacity of the cell by developing a flexible team. Develop and motivate team members ensuring they are trained, capable and effective.
• LEAN - Ensure that all relevant Production System minimum standards are fully deployed and sustained within the business in support of performance objectives and coaching the team to fully participate in continuous improvement.
• LEAD - Inspire the manufacturing team to consistently deliver high levels of performance through facilitation, coaching and the demonstration of lean leadership behaviours. Motivate, delegate and empower team members to act and make their own decisions.
• ASSETS - Optimise the performance of manufacturing assets in order to maximise facility productivity and meet current and future customer demand. Understand current constraints and develop a future state.
• DIGITAL MANUFACTURING - Understand the IT systems we use to drive our management and leadership activity. Be competent in the use of the tools to manage cell and people performance. Communicate to the team using digital tools, and be able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology.
  
  

Key Experiences And Any Qualifications

• Has Company wide outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• Understanding/knowledge of multiple disciplines demonstrating breadth of experience. Appreciation of product integrity.
• Has a proven track record delivering improved operational performance in both favourable and unfavourable conditions, utilising cross-functional teams.
• Has experience of deploying continuous improvement methodologies such as lean and six sigma, ideally with Green Belt accreditation.
• Management experience in an engineering industry is ideal, but not essential.
• Attended higher education and/or leadership development programmes.
  
  

Job Category

Manufacturing

Posting Date

23 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

06 Jul 2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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