Team Leader Production Resource
AWE plc, Southcote, Reading
Team Leader Production Resource
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AWE plc, Southcote, Reading
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 weeks ago, 3 Jul | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 91657c4b419e4266a6d8318a0bfbbbdb
Location ref: Southcote, Reading
Full Job Description
- Leadership of a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet our operational plans.
- Full line management accountability for a team of up to 26 production personnel, ensuring appropriate standards of behaviour, attendance, conduct, and performance are consistently maintained
- Ownership of team performance, ensuring clear expectations are set and performance is actively managed against safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives
- Drive a high-performance culture, where individuals are held accountable, recognised for good performance, and supported or challenged where standards are not met
- Proactively manage underperformance and capability gaps, implementing structured improvement plans and taking appropriate action where required, Set clear expectations and standards, ensuring team members understand their roles, responsibilities, and performance requirements
- Actively manage individual and team performance, providing regular feedback and addressing underperformance or behavioural concerns promptly
- Work closely with the Production Task Manager to plan, prioritise, and deploy resource in line with programme demand
- Allocate workload effectively, ensuring the right skills are matched to tasks and operational priorities
- Monitor and drive KPIs across safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency, taking action where standards are not met
- Develop team capability, through coaching, mentoring, and supporting training and accreditation plans
- Lead and facilitate daily / weekly performance routines, including visual management (e.g. accountability boards)
- Identify and escalate risks to delivery, particularly around resource, capability, or performance issues
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and integration of new personnel into the team
- Drive continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and team performance
- Build effective working relationships with Task Managers, support functions, and wider operations teams
- Actively engage and support the corporate Production Operative PDG process.
- Give advice and guidance on career development including coaching, provision of feedback and providing appropriate support.
- Provide a diverse and inclusive working environment that allows individuals to flourish and realise their potential..
- Adopt a 'See It, Own It, Solve It' mind-set, by identifying obstacles to success and taking ownership to find solutions to those problems.
- Responsible for undertaking other duties as reasonably required from time to time by line and task management, including work at other places within the UK or overseas; this will be done in consultation with you, and in accordance with any requirements contained in your Contract of Employment.
- The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties as aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs; this may include additional roles as set out below (these are subject to your area of work, and where formally agreed by the individual):
- e.g. First Aider; Ballistic First Aider; RA First Aider; Assistant Zone Control Officer; Zone Control Officer
This role is ideally suited to a strong people leader with extensive line management experience, responsible for the direct management of a team of up to 26 production personnel within a high-hazard environment. The successful candidate will drive performance, manage capability, and work closely with the Production Task Manager to align resource to programme demand., Proven line management experience - Demonstrable ability to lead, motivate, and manage diverse production teams in a safety critical environment.
- Strong performance management capability, including: + -Setting clear expectations and standards + -Managing underperformance, absence, and conduct + -Driving accountability and continuous improvement
- Excellent leadership and communication skills Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:
- Experience within a high-hazard, manufacturing, defence, nuclear, or regulated environment
- Formal leadership or management qualification (e.g. ILM, NVQ Level 3/5, or equivalent)
- Experience of lean manufacturing / continuous improvement tools (e.g. 6S, visual management, waste reduction)
- Demonstrable experience in workforce planning and skills matrix management
- Experience supporting training plans, accreditation, and competence frameworks
- Knowledge of unionised environments and experience managing employee relations professionally
- Experience of incident investigation and root cause analysis
- Ability to interpret and act on operational data, using it to inform decision making
- Experience in recruitment, onboarding, and developing new staff into operational roles You'll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Two weeks of early shifts, followed by
- Two weeks of late shifts Shift times:
- Early: 06:00 - 14:45
- Late: 14:15 - 23:00 This is a site-based role, with the successful candidate expected to work on site as part of the Operations team.,
- 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
Package: £37,670- £43,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience), This role operates on a rotating shift pattern as follows:
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/team-leader-production-resource-127067227