Finishing Team Leader

Job Title: Finishing Team Leader

Salary: £Excellent Package

Location: North East

Reference: J2300

Contact:

Telephone: 0141 647 6688

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Our client is one of the country’s leading printing service providers. Following continuous expansion, they are seeking a Finishing Team Leader to be the lead person responsible for the overall set up, performance, output, quality and efficiency of the perfect binding lines and its operators.

Main responsibilities and accountabilities pertaining to this role will include:

· Prepare the machines in accordance with the specifications on the job ticket

· Clean, lubricate and adjust equipment to maintain maximum production and quality finished product

· Make necessary corrections and adjustments to correct intermittent random machine stops

· Maintain constant inspection and surveillance of books on stream to prevent gathering errors and machine delays

· Inspect and examine work in process to assure quality standards are met

· Lead the team to maintain steady production flow through maximum efficiency

· Troubleshoot and ensure preventative maintenance tasks are carried out

· Undertake Layered Audits as defined by the Shift FLM for Finishing.

· Coordinate activities of team to maintain constant flow of product through feeding and logger processes to minimize errors

· Assist team with maintaining a clean and safe work environment

· Responsible for the training and development of the team and ongoing review of the team members’ performance to ensure compliance and adherence to the standard operating procedures and safety requirements of the process.

· To ensure appropriate handovers are provided between shifts and departments

· To support the First Line Managers and Department Managers on operational issues as required

· Undertake Team Leader responsibilities on other Finishing lines as defined by operational requirement

· In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by immediate manager from time to time

Person Specification

· Show the ability to demonstrate and promote a leadership style which ensures improved productivity team motivation

· Have the capability of being actively involved in regular performance reviews, where own performance is appraised, followed by development planning in accordance with own and the business needs

· Demonstrating a pro-active approach to the training of other operators as determined by business needs

· Develop and motivate the team to achieve clearly defined work standards at all times

· Must be available to work agreed shift patterns and extra shifts as required by production demand

· Proven ability to problem solve using technical knowledge and experience

Education and Professional Background

· Recognised industry qualification and/or proven technical process experience in working on perfect binding machinery.

· Numerate and with a basic level of computing skills such as Microsoft office suite

· Fluent in English and have a profound full command of the English Language in order to write reports, complete documentation to an accurate and clear standard

· Experience of machine maintenance via the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) model

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.