Team Leader - CNC Machining

Introduction

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.

They will use their knowledge / previous experience in managing CNC's, Robots and team members to successfully lead their teams and provide leadership to 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.