Production Team Leader - Downstream

Telford, England, United Kingdom

7/22/2025

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What We Offer

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary

Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

Job Responsibilities

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Business Unit Supervisor, the Team Leader for the Safety, Quality, Output of the assigned area on a day to day basis, whilst upholding Magna’s standards and driving continuous Improvement.

Role Responsibilities

This role entails but is not limited to: -

• Safety promotion of employees and processes – PPE Auditing, LOTO, COSHH
• Job ability – quality sign off and building of competence and confidence of technical skills
• Leading Teams and delivering Tier 1 daily meetings, supporting escalation when required
• Problem solving and Kaizen – seeking root cause for downtime or quality issues using CI tools
• Deliver the Autonomous Maintenance schedule
• Human Relations – building and developing a high performing Team addressing T&A issues, Return to Work and recognition of high performing individuals
• Able to lead investigations, resolve grievances and monitor absenteeism and take appropriate action where needed
• Promote the companies HSE policies across the department and plant and adhere to all Health and Safety environmental requirements
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Good problem-solving skills
• Team player and promotes a team approach to problem solving
• Confidence to challenge the status quo
• Confident delivery of positive and negative information to single and multiple audiences
• Target driven
• Work collaboratively to achieve project/company goals
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Good communicator both written and verbal
• Ability to work under pressure
• Organised and able to multi-task
• Proactive in approach with a “can do attitude”
• Self-motivated
• Eligibility to work in the UK
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Proven Production leadership experience
• Experience of problem solving – 3C
• Use of 5S to improve production environment
• Group communication delivery
• Ability to carry out Risk Assessments
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft
• Able to create SWIs
• Use of KPI’s to track performance
• Ability to carry out audits
  
  

Desirable

• White belt trained
• IOSH Qualification
• Tier 1 automotive supply
• Familiar with CLAIR approach (Clean, Lubricate, Adjust, Inspect, Repair)
• Experience within castings sector
  
  

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.

Worker Type

Regular / Permanent

Group

Cosma International