Team Leader Production Resource

Responsibilities

• 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, prov

Benefits

Additional Information

If you'd like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given. Team Leader Production Operations Resource Location: Burghfield located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking . Package: £37,670- £43,000 ( depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience) Working pattern: This role operates on a rotating shift pattern as follows: 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. Let us introduce the role AWE is currently recruiting for a Team Leader Production Operations for the Operations Group 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. Who are we looking for? We do need you to have the following: 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. Key Accountabilities: 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

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