Manufacturing Test Team Leader

Job description

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Manufacturing Test Team Leader

Location: Templecombe
4 day working week - Monday to Thursday - 9.25 hours per day

Our Opportunity

To lead a team of assembly/repair and test staff in the manufacture and/or repair of customer and developmental items as defined by product defining data. To support the APRU Manager in the distribution of tasks and be responsible for work deployed throughout the team.

To ensure the team follow and maintain company processes and procedures in an effective and efficient manner. To deploy and ensure the team is capable of maintaining throughput requirements to routed times and ensure quality of work & paperwork.

What the role has to offer:

• To support the APRU Manager in driving delivery and ensuring that production/repair items are progressed efficiently (e.g. assy/test/insp) to achieve the plan.
• Support the APRU in resolution of problems to achieving Quality Cost Delivery (QCD) requirements and escalation where required
• Ensure team follows the defined process for the relevant production/repair activity (e.g. material flow, work instructions, routing, tooling)
• Responsible for managing performance of team, particularly initial discussions with transition to APRU manager as appropriate / necessary.
• Support APRU Manager in execution of successful SIM meetings
• Ensure team follows general processes in line with role (e.g. raising non-conformances, completing route-cards, timesheets etc).
• Point of contact for capturing process/paperwork issues and education of process with team.
• To maintain expected HS&E standards appropriate to the activities and ensure PPE is worn in line with risk assessments and COSHH requirements.
• Ensure workplace management is adhered to for areas covered.
• Encourage teams to identify and implement improvements using lean methodology.
• Contribute to the generation of estimates for new build and repairs.
• Conduct regular check-ins with team members to review objectives and complete year-end review
• Support the APRU Manager in identifying training needs of the team and maintain training matrix
• Execute TPM plans as defined by the Process Engineering team
• Ensure availability of Tooling/Test Equipment is present and calibrated at the point of use.
• Recruit, lead, develop, encourage and support the team

About You

• Good communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels both verbally and written.
• Good understanding of office tools
• Attention to detail and ability to ensure all work is carried out accurately and conscientiously within quality and governance
• Shows Initiative to define and implement improvement activities
• Ability to work independently and lead a team effectively
• Experience of successfully managing Teams in a manufacturing environment
• An understanding of MRP/PDM system principles.
• A high level of manufacturing knowledge to ensure that the best methods are utilised by the team

What We Can Offer

We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the assigned recruiter.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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