Production Leader

Brose Ltd, Coventry West Midlands

Production Leader

Visa Sponsership NOT offered

Company Benefits:

• Free car park
• Long service days
• Company App
• Cycle to work scheme
• Exciting career progression opportunities.
• Pension contribution
• Life assurance up to 3x salary
• On site counsellor and occupational nurse
• Employee assistance programme

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

We are seeking an experienced Production Leader who will lead a multi functional team in the manufacture of welded/ painted/ assembled and tested products to world class quality standards.

You will be responsible for ensuring that your team and the production achieves the business targets for HS&E, Quality, Cost and Delivery for current production/ aftersales and new programme introductions.

This is a significant leadership role that requires a wide range of skills to deliver and drive lean improvements through great engagement with our talented people.

As a Production Leader, your tasks will be:

• Communicate, lead, and inspire in line with the Brose FIRST Principles so that our teams can achieve their full potential.
• Drive Quality and Continual Improvement in line with our Brose Production System and the Company’s Mission, vision, and strategic goals
• Build and lead an effective operational team, including recruitment, training, coaching, developing and performance reviews
• Liaise and develop close working relationship with customers and suppliers
• Capacity planning, monitoring for all resources; manpower, machines, methods, and materials
• Plan and execute budgets, monitor and drive KPIs and improve the enablers to drive results, for all aspects of the business
• Working with our customer teams, both locally and in the headquarters ensuring effective controlled change management including new program introduction
• Absence and Disciplinary management

We are on a journey to make Brose Coventry "a better place to work". Underpinned by our FIRST principles of Family, Identification (Proud to work at Brose), Respect, Success & Team, which are fundamental qualities that we seek for all our employees and Leaders.

What we’re looking for in a Production Leader :

• Degree or equivalent in Production or Engineering
• Previous experience in leading teams in a manufacturing / JIT environment. We do not believe that this position would suit someone stepping into Leadership for the first time.
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work well with employees at different levels, leading cross-functional teams and possesses the ability to make sound business decisions and escalate issues as required
• Strong, demonstrable people management experience, that is employee centric in approach and someone who possess the passion to achieve through sustaining trusted and open relationships.
• Embracing Lean leadership behaviours to drive day-to day improvement activity like 5S and longer-term lean projects to enable continuous improvement in performance and the way we operate. Encouraging participation in our employee recognition and IDEAs schemes.
• Demonstrating ability to respond at pace, to changing demands through robust planning, teamwork, and collaboration

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives and the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

If you believe you can successfully contribute to our business and would like to join us on our journey of making Brose Coventry a "better place to work", please click apply and complete the application process. We welcome the opportunity to review your application and welcome you to our team!