Production Team Leader

• Lead the team to achieve daily production targets, maintaining safe working, quality standards and operational discipline
• Plan and organise work on shift, allocating tasks and resources to meet demand and priorities
• Monitor and report performance through daily shop floor board meetings, updating KPIs and highlighting risks, delays and recovery actions
• Maintain accurate production transactions and records in QAD, ensuring timely and correct updates
• Ensure effective handovers between shifts, maintaining continuity of output, quality and information
• Provide clear direction, coaching and support to team members, setting expectations and maintaining professional standards
• Identify training needs and support delivery of training and competence development on the job
• Complete core people administration as required, including attendance, timekeeping, training records and related documentation
• Support recruitment and onboarding within the team where required
• Lead shift start meetings and toolbox talks, reinforcing safety, quality and daily priorities
• Ensure compliance with health and safety policy, including risk assessments, safe working practices and escalation of hazards or near misses
• Drive problem solving and corrective actions when issues arise, using root cause and practical countermeasures to prevent recurrence
• Promote a continuous improvement culture, encouraging ideas from the team and supporting implementation of improvements
• Work closely with Quality and Production teams to maintain product standards, reduce defects, and improve right first-time performance
• Ensure non-conformances are identified, contained and escalated appropriately, supporting investigations and corrective actions
• Conduct regular workplace safety checks and report hazards
• Promote safe working practices and encourage colleagues to follow procedures
• Support incident reporting and help investigate near misses
• Act as a point of contact for safety concerns within the team
• Share safety updates, lessons learned, and best practices with the team
• Help onboard new starters with basic safety expectations

• Experience as a Team Leader or Supervisor in a production or manufacturing environment
• Experience working to targets and KPIs, with a track record of improving performance on shift
• Experience of Standardised Work Confirmation / 5s Audits / LPA Audits / Kaizen / Kanban / Training Logs
• Experience of problem solving / 8D’s / 7 wastes reduction
• Experience managing people matters such as performance, absence and standards
• Strong awareness of health and safety responsibilities in a factory environment
• Experience using production systems for reporting and data entry, ideally QAD or similar
• Good IT skills on Excel, word, PowerPoint and OEE system (Intouch)
• Experience of using AI tools or demonstrates a willingness to learn and apply AI in role

Experience in finishing processes is desirable, for example preparation, trimming, paint, inspection or similar production environments

• Performance rewards – discretionary bonus opportunities
• 25 days’ holiday + 8 bank holidays, with the option to buy more through our Holiday Purchase Scheme
• two weeks’ paid leave for Reservists and Cadets, plus paid leave for Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs)
• competitive pension scheme (9% combined employer/employee contributions
• life cover at 3x base salary
• BHSF Cash Healthcare Plan to support everyday health costs
• career development and advancement opportunities within a global business