Job Description

Job Title:  Line Leader

Location:  Melksham, UK

Business Unit:  Avon Protection

About Avon Technologies:

We are a world leader in protective equipment, with a reputation for innovative design, high-performance quality and specialist materials expertise. Our two brands, Avon Protection and Team Wendy, supply our respiratory and head protection portfolio to customers across the globe from our manufacturing sites in the UK and North America.  With over 900 talented people our shared purpose and core beliefs are to be #FIERCE about Protecting Lives. It's why we come to work - and it's what motivates us, every day, to do the best work we can.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Medical and health cash-back scheme
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• Share incentive scheme

Purpose of Position:

This role will manage output, productivity, quality, and personnel within their assigned cell, train and develop

direct reports and manage discipline of all employees within the cell.  This role will also implement continuous improvement activities in line with the ATW Way to increase productivity, reduce scrap, and decrease inventory in their cell and report on daily figures at tiered meetings about production targets and corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor output to production requirements in their cell on a day-to-day basis and raise any concerns.
• Track productivity, quality and inventory trends over time and implement improvements.
• Performance manage staff within their line that are not performing to required standards.
• Manage all staff within their cell, including logging holidays and sickness and completing return to work interviews.
• Assign labour to workstations, ensuring operators are trained on their given station.
• Complete stage 1 disciplinary investigations and warnings.
• Support value streams to improve and fix systemic process issues.
• Ensure all operators are trained on their assigned processes and are following the standard operating procedure (SOP).
• Compliance with health and safety policies.
• Complete 1:1’s with employees on a twice-yearly basis, identify high potential people and support with their development plans.
• To manage training records and skills matrices, identifying gaps and planning / implementing a training and development plan.
• To be responsible for SOP documentation ensuring amendments are made in line with change control procedures and audit as necessary.
• Assist in the planning of and support of trials and sampling.
• To make all operators aware of company procedures and escalate as necessary to ensure it is dealt with promptly by the relevant Engineering / Technical department.
• To maintain the highest level of housekeeping, leading 5S teams to deliver actions and goals as identified from housekeeping audits and the Site Leadership Team
• Request overtime within area when required, organise with staff.
• Create a culture of Continuous Improvement and a team that adopts change.
• Cover Team absence – step up for Tier 2 on occasion in Production Leader absence.

Requirements:

• Good verbal and written communication.
• Able to use Microsoft office suite at a basic level.
• Experience working with MRP systems.
• Lean manufacturing philosophy understanding.
• A positive attitude towards change.
• Understanding of manufacturing operations within area.
• Ability to solve problems
• Able to make difficult decisions in a fast-moving environment
• Good team player who can motivate and deal with conflict in an appropriate and professional manner.

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserve the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

Do not apply via the links below.  Interested applicants should apply by sending their CV to:  recruitmenthpw@avon-protection.com