VACGEN Ltd
Manufacturing Team Leader
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Manufacturing Team Leader
Location: Hailsham, BN27 4EL
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Hours: Monday - Friday, 37 hours
Benefits:
- A competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days holiday
- Salary sacrifice company pension
- Life insurance
- A state-of-the-art working environment!
Lead Performance. Drive Improvement. Deliver Excellence.
VACGEN is a leading manufacturer of ultra-high vacuum (UHV) technology, supplying innovative solutions to customers across scientific research, industrial applications and advanced technology sectors worldwide.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Manufacturing Team Leader to join our Production team at our Lower Dicker site.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be responsible for ensuring that quality, delivery and production targets are achieved while driving continuous improvement across the manufacturing cell.
If you have strong manufacturing leadership experience, enjoy developing people and thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, we'd love to hear from you.
As our Manufacturing Team Leader, you will be responsible for:
- Lead and support the day-to-day activities of the manufacturing cell to ensure quality, delivery and cost targets are achieved.
- Motivate, coach and develop team members to maximise performance and engagement.
- Manage attendance, performance, training and skill development across the team.
- Coordinate cross-training activities and maintain training records and competency matrices.
- Work closely with Planning to understand production priorities and ensure schedules are achieved.
- Monitor production activities, proactively resolving issues to ensure components are manufactured right first time.
- Ensure materials, tooling, programmes and documentation are available and prepared ahead of production.
- Maintain full material and product traceability throughout the manufacturing process.
- Attend daily operations meetings and provide updates on production performance and priorities.
- Support KPI achievement across quality, delivery and cost measures.
- Drive continuous improvement activities, including Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S and problem-solving initiatives.
- Support root cause investigations, corrective actions and rework activities where required.
- Ensure compliance with quality procedures, manufacturing standards and company policies.
- Maintain visual management systems and promote a safe, organised and efficient working environment.
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In order to be successful in this role it is essential that you have:
- Proven experience within a manufacturing, engineering or production environment.
- Previous experience managing or supervising a manufacturing team.
- Strong leadership, coaching and people management skills.
- Excellent understanding of manufacturing processes, fabrication and production operations.
- Experience of planning workloads, prioritising activities and delivering against deadlines.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.
- Good organisational, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Computer literate and comfortable working with production and performance data.
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It would be great if you had:
- Experience within a low-volume, high-precision manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement and 5S methodologies.
- Experience leading improvement projects and driving operational efficiencies.
- Vacuum technology industry experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
- HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Engineering apprenticeship background.
- ILM Level 3 (or above) in Leadership and Management.
No agencies please.
Vacgen Limited is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected status under the Equality Act 2010.
Please Note: We cannot accept applications from Overseas or people who do not have the right to work in the UK.
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