Contract Type: Contract

Salary: £20 per hour

Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a Team Leader for Inspection on a contract basis. You will be supporting the preparation and build of gearboxes and axles for low volume, high value driveline systems for a variety of customers.

The Role

We are looking to recruit a Team Leader for Inspection to join our Leamington Spa Office, we would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Strong leadership skills, be able to listen, direct, advise, challenge, correct, motivate, and praise team members to achieve the performance targets of the business.
• Engage with their teams to effectively communicate the requirements of the business, empowering team members to continuously and proactively improve machining methods and processes.
• Make sure that the SQDCPE boards are up to date at the end of each shift and all holidays are visible and present this information to the team on daily basis and then once a week to management underling the good/Bad things and potentially any issues that have came up.
• Validate the team are booking work off correctly and the route cards are correct, and parts moved to the correct areas.
• Communicate with other team leaders to understand where overtime is needed and if team members need to be flexible and move to different areas. Giving the team clear guidance on what they are expected to do .

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain timing and sequencing of production order operations in line with finite capacity scheduling wherever possible, and to ensure on time delivery to schedule and maximum utilization of resources.
• Ensure Ricardo’s Health & Safety, Environmental, Confidentiality and Quality policies are always adhered to in the Manufacturing area.
• Review all risk assessments associated with their areas in line with Ricardo’s procedures and policies.
• Manage the team members ensuring suitable flexibility to realize the dynamic requirements of the business, providing time and resources for training when and where required.
• Maintain a standardised team information board including all aspects of the SDQCPE board, to proactively communicate and challenge the team members to achieve the performance targets of the business.
• Carry out annual PDR’s with team members, providing support and direction to enable them to realize their maximum potential. Collecting all scrap reports and quality issues and their productivity to have evidence to use in this in their annual performance.
• Ensure all maintenance/machine and service issues are communicated effectively to the Manufacturing Maintenance Manager ensuring overall equipment effectiveness.
• Ensure all setter / operators are suitably dressed in company clothing / PPE and keep their workstations and the immediate areas around the machines, clean, organized, and efficient at all times.
• To ensure the teams timesheets are correct and validate the information that is given on them and making sure all absences are reported in a timely manner.
• Manage the teams/people return to work process and absence review meetings, making sure they are done and up to date with actions if needed.
• We are looking for a “Can Do” approach, not afraid to challenge the norms and lead from the front taking ownership of their respective section and people.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.