Team Leader

Niftylift Ltd; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Healthcare & benefits

5% contributory pension

Life insurance

Free on-site parking

Subsidised refreshments

Cycle-to-work

Referral Programme

Job summary

Niftylift Limited, a global leader in the design and manufacture of mobile elevating work platforms, invites applications for a Team Leader at our Hoyland site in Barnsley. You will supervise a production area, drive output KPIs, and lead a multi-skilled team to meet daily targets.

The role emphasizes lean manufacturing, 5S housekeeping, quality control, and safety. We offer competitive pay (£39,395 per annum base, overtime premiums) plus a pension, health benefits, 25 days holiday and

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage a multi-skilled production team.
• Experience in capacity planning and scheduling workloads.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing and 5S housekeeping.

Responsibilities

• Organise and control staff with daily shift start-up meetings.
• Guide and support flexible operations to meet standards.
• Enforce health and safety standards and carry out risk assessments.
• Ensure ISO 9001 procedures and quality controls are followed.
• Maintain accurate manufacturing system records.
• Balance line flow and manage overtime and attendance.
• Drive continuous improvement through Kaizen and waste reduction.
• Monitor performance metrics and escalate issues as needed.

Skills

Team leadership

Capacity planning

Lean manufacturing

Microsoft Office

Tools

Manufacturing software

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Leader to join our growing friendly team at Niftylift. The role is based at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Hoyland, Barnsley.

We offer competitive pay rates, excellent working conditions, overtime premiums, business performance bonus, 25 days holiday which increases with service (plus bank holidays), healthcare & benefits scheme, 5% contributory pension, death in service/life insurance, profit related bonus scheme, and subsidised refreshments (lunch and drinks).

Niftylift Limited is one of the world's leading privately owned designers and manufacturers of mobile elevated work platforms. Our customer base is global, with products sold and locally supported in over 40 different countries. This success is comprehensively supported by a team of over 400 full-time members of staff across our three UK centres of excellence sites in the UK.

The Team Leader is responsible for the control of a production area, within the overall production function team. Provide leadership to the team and drive targets to meet output KPI's.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Efficient organisation and control of staff. Regular and structured communication with teams, through daily team shift start-up meetings and Stakeholder Meeting held and chaired to set agenda.
• Guidance and support to achieve full flexibility, balancing and achievement to standards.
• Compliance with health and safety standards. Risk assessments, COSHH Assessments, Manual Handling Assessments, Safety Barometers.
• Ensuring ISO 9001 procedures are complied with, including in process inspection sheets, auditing and controlling line quality, control of internal / external quality notes, and the implementation of preventative actions.
• Maintaining accurate information on the companies manufacturing systems (i.e. engineering masters / works orders etc).
• Control attainment to build plan delivery requirements, through liaison with Production Administrator and Section Managers. Hands on maintenance to balance the flow line, and minimise line stoppages, including absence cover. Flexibility to ensure targets are met.
• Continuous improvement, through Kaizen. Actual times to be achieved and beaten through the implementation of lean manufacturing, including removal of all non-value-added operations (7 Wastes). Maintain a high standard of housekeeping and organisation (5s).
• Measuring and managing performance in accidents/incidents, internal quality defects, cell productivity/utilisation, takt analysis, overall stock accuracy and WIP (flow line adherence).
• Ensuring all related company procedures are audited and complied with.
• Owning the area in its entirety and escalating where and when required

Experience

• Computer literate in Microsoft office and manufacturing software systems;
• Proven ability to manage a multi skilled team;
• Experienced and knowledgeable in capacity planning and scheduling work load requirements;
• Basic technical / inspection knowledge on the above disciplines;
• Experience of operating within a lean manufacturing/continuous improvement team environment;
• Able to develop continuous improvement in all aspects of the people, facility, processes and products;
• Ability to work to high commercial quality standards.

Shifts of Monday to Thursday 07:30-16:30 & Friday 07:30-13:30 (40 hours per week) Guaranteed basic starting salary £17.69 x 40 hours per week plus guaranteed minimum £50 per week bonus - £39,395.00 per annum plus structured overtime paid at premium rates outlined below: Level A - Overtime paid at premium rate of £26.54 per hour (i.e. x 1.5). Level B - Overtime paid at premium rate of £35.38 per hour (i.e. x 2.0). Plus additional monthly bonus aligned to business performance that equates to total bonus payments of £280 - £350 per month on average (for reference only).

Pay & Benefits

• Annual bonus (for indication only) based on recent average £500 per annum.
• 25 days holiday (increases with service, up to 30 days), plus bank holidays.
• Staff discounts
• Free on-site parking
• Subsidised refreshments
• Health cover scheme for dental, optical etc. (Additional Membership available for Partners, paid for by employee. Kids membership included for free)
• 5% contributory pension
• Life insurance scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Referral Programme