Manufacturing Team leader
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Occupation Type
Production, factory and assembly supervisors
Occupation Code Skill LevelIneligible
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Description
Our Manufacturing teams are the driving force behind Bailey, building our caravans, motorhomes, and campervans with precision and pride.
Working in a production line environment, our caravan, motorhome and campervan teams bring designs to life through skill, teamwork, and attention to detail. As the heart of our operation, they ensure every one of our leisure vehicles meet the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship before it reaches our customers.
As one of our Manufacturing Team Leaders, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the daily activities of your team to ensure all targets are hit and delivered on time, to the agreed standard.
This role places high premiums on effective teamwork, leadership, clear communication, initiative, achieving and maintaining production efficiency. Most importantly, the postholder will need an unwavering dedication to the quality of the produced.
Specific Responsibilities
Operations
Working in a production line environment, our caravan, motorhome and campervan teams bring designs to life through skill, teamwork, and attention to detail. As the heart of our operation, they ensure every one of our leisure vehicles meet the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship before it reaches our customers.
As one of our Manufacturing Team Leaders, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the daily activities of your team to ensure all targets are hit and delivered on time, to the agreed standard.
This role places high premiums on effective teamwork, leadership, clear communication, initiative, achieving and maintaining production efficiency. Most importantly, the postholder will need an unwavering dedication to the quality of the produced.
Specific Responsibilities
Operations
- Accountable for the team’s safety, quality and delivery of product
- Responsible for setting the standard each day; ensuring team members understand exactly what is expected of them at all times, checking team members are wearing the correct uniform, are wearing relevant PPE,
- Motivate and drive team members to continually achieve excellence in all aspects of their work,
- Act as communications hub for the team, cascading important and timely information in a positive and professional manner,
- Conduct team toolbox talk at the start of every shift including H&S issues/quality problems from previous day, today’s build program, material/resource issues and AOB,
Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure each team member clearly understands the quality requirements for each operation and the implications of error. Feed issues back into the relevant departments to resolve issues in a timely manner,
- Ensure all tooling is maintained, fit for purpose and all daily checks are carried out relevant to equipment used in your areas,
- Responsible for the standard of work in your team, communicate out the standard, report poor standard and organise support or training where necessary,
- Follow the reject process, record all non-conforming parts on to the tracker and report any in-house or supplier damage to rectify. Ensure this is done in a timely manner to minimise impact to production,
- Use problem resolution to solve quality issues to root cause and prevent reoccurrence
- Identify issues and work with relevant departments to find solutions to problems. Identify improvements with a drive to makes everything safer and better,
- Responsible for all downstream quality problems that emanate and are attributable to your own area and are recorded on works card, including: Type of fault, action any simple repairs quickly without affecting the line takt time or any larger problems to be recorded and the Line Manager notified,
- Own and drive a safety culture within your team. Take ownership of accident reporting and route cause analysis. Challenging poor standards and behaviors every day. Working with the H&S Manager to complete risk assessments and ensure teams are aware and sign off against updates and operating changes. Challenging others who visit your area and are not following your own safety protocols,
- In conjunction with the Standard Operation Procedures and Risk Assessments, instruct the team member on the safe use of equipment,
- Ensure all mechanical & electrical equipment is PAT compliant, certified, labelled, inspected and approved by appropriate signee,
- Ensure the COSHH data sheet & associated risk assessments for all substances are located near each station. Ensure the team is fully briefed on the substances used within the section, associated risks and remedial action for any nonconformance,
- Ensure all PPE identified by the Risk Assessment is worn correctly & signed for by the team member upon issue or replacement.
We have been building Bailey leisure vehicles here in South Bristol since 1948 and are now very much part of the local community. We are also the tenth largest private company in Bristol and the largest recruiter in the area.
The majority of our employees live nearby and have been with us for a long time, with the average length of service around 10 years. As a result, our workforce possesses the necessary skill and experience to successfully produce a complex range of caravans, motorhome and campervans in the same production facility.
As a large business we have opportunities in many areas and can offer people wide and varied careers, all of which attract an excellent benefits package. We are continually reviewing our offering to ensure we remain an employer of choice in the local area.
All positions at Bailey attract excellent benefits including...
Financial & Remuneration
- Competitive salaries (with entry-level hourly rates above the Real Living Wage)
- Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance Cover from day 1 of employment
- Salary exchange Cycle to Work scheme
- Financial support through salary advance and travel loan schemes
- Excellent holiday entitlement (25 days a year plus Bank Holidays) with additional entitlement for long service
- Enhanced family friendly pay; Maternity pay (24 weeks full pay followed by 15 weeks statutory pay) / Paternity pay (2 weeks full pay)
- Longer weekends as a result of an early finish every Friday (role dependent & subject to business needs)
- Monthly recognition awards
- 25% discount at our partner company PRIMA Leisure
- Health cashback scheme
- Corporate gym memberships
- Bi-weekly free fruit mondays
- Employee Assistance Program
- On-site Mental Health First Aiders
- HRT treatment support
- Dedicated induction & onboarding