Production Leader - Bristol

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Production Leader to inspire and coach a team at their Bristol site. This role involves ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency within manufacturing operations while driving a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in operational performance and team leadership, with a focus on lean methodologies. Join a company that values innovation and inclusivity, offering excellent development opportunities and a competitive salary. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact in a forward-thinking environment.

Benefits

Employee Support Assistance

Employee Discounts

Development Opportunities

Competitive Salary

Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of health and safety standards.
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proven track record in operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team within a manufacturing cell.
• Ensure compliance with engineering specifications.
• Drive productivity and reduce costs in the cell.

Skills

Continuous Improvement

Lean Methodologies

Six Sigma

Team Leadership

Health and Safety Standards

Education

Higher Education

Leadership Development Programmes

Tools

Digital Tools for Management

Load and Capacity Tools

Job description

Job Description

Production Leader

Full Time

Bristol

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Bristol - BTF Foundry site as a Production Leader.

The successful Production Leader will 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.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century.

We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

You will lead the drive towards a performance and culture of Zero harm.

Ensuring our teams are trained and compliant to safety standards, driving environmental targets and promote wellbeing, you will also:

• Be 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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 able to communicate digital strategy and use of innovative technology.

Who we're looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

For this role you will need to demonstrate understanding of the applicable health and safety standards and we are looking for someone who is/has:

• Has a 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.

We are an equal opportunities employer.
We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be.

By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.