Vacancy Details

Job Reference: OPS0424006
Application deadline: 16/05/2024

Job Description

At Scottish Leather Group, we produce the world's lowest carbon leather due to our passion for leading sustainable manufacturing practices, continuous innovation, and outstanding services!

 

Our People

 

At Scottish Leather Group, we make it personal. We recognise that the uniqueness of everyone who works for us, contributes to our success and resilience. We believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to consider a rewarding career with us. By joining us you will be embarking on an exciting career, where we will help you achieve your professional goals and encourage you to reach your full potential.

 

Our Values

 

Scottish Leather Group desires to establish the highest industry standards for quality, innovation, value, service, and care for the environment whilst upholding our Company values: We Make it Personal, We are Committed to Quality, and We are Naturally Progressive

 

Our Portfolio

 

We are the largest leather manufacturer in the United Kingdom and employ over 900 employees globally!

 

Our specialist leathers are produced for a wide range of industries, including automotive, aviation, bus & coach, rail, furniture, and custom projects. We partner with hundreds of prestigious brands in more than 60 countries. Our customers include the likes of Aston Martin, Jaguar Land Rover, Polestar, Lucid, Emirates Airlines, Boeing, and Philips.

 

Role purpose:

 

The role of the Team Leader (Cutting) is to support the Production Supervisor in ensuring the safe and operational efficiency of day to day production which guarantees optimum performance, achieving all production KPI’s, and fulfil customer demands whilst ensuring all company procedures and compliances (both internal and external) are fully met. The day to day operation will typically involve reviewing the daily production demands and scheduling the material through each part of the operation then providing coaching and support to the team ensuring that the schedule is delivered on time and in full.

 

Key accountabilities:

 

• Embed H&S culture of zero tolerance ensuring the policy is fully understood, owned and implemented by every individual – ensuring machine operators have set up machines correctly and all pre-shift safety checks have been carried out and recorded.
• Promote the use of TCards for near miss and hazard reporting– ensuring appropriate feedback and recognition to operators.
• Ensure all prescribed quality checks are carried out by machine operators, to ensure product quality is not compromised.
• Live and breathe workplace organisation ensuring the factory is always customer ready.
• Supervise to execute the production plan, communicating and highlighting any risk to OTIF to Supervisor at earliest opportunity while reviewing department targets on an hourly basis.
• Takes ownership of daily production information recording monitoring and improving KPIs
• Monitor efficiencies on shift start up’s, change overs and batch order RAF’s at each stage.
• Conduct weekly stock checks on all consumables within the department and highlight any shortages at the earliest opportunity.
• Create an open and honest culture of communications between management and factory employees, always aligned to our core values.
• Deliver optimum results by creating a can-do attitude through motivating and encouraging employees.
• Liaising with Maintenance Department to ensure plant and machinery is kept in full working order, ensuring job requests are logged on maintain.

 

Experience Desired:

 

• Excellent team player – demonstrating practical leadership in people, product process and plant.
• Experience in a similar role – preferably in a manufacturing/industrial setting with a good understanding of operational metrics and drivers and the use of KPIs to manage an operation.
• Experience of meeting and exceeding health and safety/environmental/ workplace organisation requirements
• Demonstrable supervisory and line management skills with a coaching style that gets the best out of people, focused on collaboration and continual improvement.
• Skilled in logistics
• Competent IT Skills
• Excellent organisational skills

 

Key Competencies Required:

 

Role Model

• Being an exemplary role model and taking the lead in promoting and living our values
• Establishes norms of behaviour (from the shadow he/she casts) for the team and takes appropriate actions if they are broken.

 

Develop Yourself

• Invests in Personal Development
• Is self-aware and authentic
• Is open to feedback

 

Develop your People

• Develops, empowers and motivates teams and individuals
• Drives employee engagement

 

Provides Direction

• Translates strategy, creating a positive vision
• Inspires while managing change

 

Drives for results

• Delivers against targets in a way which is fast, agile and in line with our company values

 

Communicating

• Uses effective influencing strategies
• Clear, concise, consistent, and relevant for individual situations. Understands, manages, and clarifies expectations
• Engages with key stakeholders prior to an important presentation/meeting to enlist their support

 

Problem solving

• Always seeking valid information to solve and eliminate root causes of problems/ issues.

 

Key relationships:

 

• Cutting Manager
• Lead Supervisor
• Shift Lead
• Dynamics Support
• Operators
• Manufacturing Support
• Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

 

Benefits

 

• Scottish Leather Group Pension Plan
• Holiday entitlement package (additional days granted for long service)
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP): Work-related support & counselling
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to a network of fully trained internal coaches & mentors to support career development.
• Additional training and development opportunities including SCQF qualifications, secondments, and external training.
• Access to SLG & Me Benefits & Wellbeing Portal: A range of discounts across various retailers and health & wellbeing support.
• Dedicated network of Mental Health first Aiders.
• Employee voice: opinion surveys to enhance our workplace culture.
• Employee recognition platform.
• Group Life Assurance plan

 

We are now an SCQF inclusive recruiter to support and develop diversity, equality and inclusion in our organisation to create a talent diverse workplace that embraces individuality. For further information visit https://scqf.org.uk/about-the-framework/