Cell Leader

Posted 03/09/2024 by Ltek Recruitment Ltd

Location:
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Salary/Rate:
£38,000/annum + overtime available

Job Purpose / Objectives:

  • To effectively organise and manage people; machines and workflow to ensure that production plans are achieved, and customer requirements satisfied
  • To ensure that daily; weekly and monthly production targets are achieved across the Cell – as measured by Schedule Adherence and other KPIs
  • To maintain a Safe, Clean and Organised (6S) working environment by ensuring that all health, safety and 6S practices; policies and procedures are understood and adhered to.

Responsibilities:

  • ‘Hands-on’ working cell leader role - able to programme; set; operate and troubleshoot each process within the cell.
  • Production of parts within the cell – target of 80% of time producing parts.
  • Prioritise and manage the order in which works orders are completed within the Cell, ensuring that Works Order due dates are achieved; production capacity is maximised, and Cell downtime is minimised.
  • Lead daily ‘start of shift’ and ‘end of shift’ production plan and KPI meetings with all Cell team members (and support staff as required) monitor and manage Cell performance, and to identify and agree daily priorities with members of other Departments and work collectively to ship products to our customers by the required ship date.
  • Promote and embed good standards of housekeeping; cleanliness and 6S across the cell to maintain a safe; clean and organised working environment always.
  • Promote a team working environment across the Cell, and encourage and support continuous improvement activities to achieve identified improvements.
  • Identify and resolve quality issues using daily scrap walks and root cause analysis in order to reduce scrap, non-conformance and rework.
  • Work closely with Production Engineering and Maintenance teams to ensure optimal running of manufacturing processes and equipment.
  • Recruitment and training of team members, ensuring that team members are trained to a defined standard and are competent to perform their duties at both quality and output standards as identified by the skills matrix for each operator.  Manage holidays; time keeping; grievances and discipline across the team (with support from HR) to ensure that manpower is always in place to deliver the production plan.
  • Ensure that daily shopfloor work booking, and route card disciplines are instilled into the team’s daily activities.

This role profile is not intended to be exhaustive, the job holder will on occasions be expected to perform tasks and support the business as required delivering the business objectives identified.

Type:
Permanent
Start Date:
ASAP
Contract Length:
Permanent
Job Reference:
Pailton
Job ID:
222256362
Applications:
Less than 10

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