Section Leader

Our production teams build our ventilation products to the highest standards, ensuring that Nuaire's reputation for quality, safety and innovation is upheld. Working closely with internal cross-functional teams, we ensure that customer orders are built to schedule, providing them with the excellent products they have come to expect from Nuaire., Reporting to the Production Manager, the Section Leader is responsible for the health, safety, and wellbeing of team members; ensuring they are effectively trained, with a focus on company quality standards whilst meeting efficiency and productivity targets. The Section Leader consistently promotes high team standards through personal example of the behaviours and values that Nuaire is committed to., Health & Safety/ Wellbeing

• Ensure that team members understand and comply with health and safety regulations, company quality and environmental standards always following safe working practices within standard operating procedures.
• Identify team training needs by reviewing and maintaining the section training matrix and arranging/ undertaking training to ensure that team members are competent, developed and flexibility of operations achieved.
• Support employee wellbeing by having regular check-ins with team members and conducting return to work meetings after absences.
• Conduct incident, accident and non-conformity investigations and provide timely reports to management; ensuring all remedial actions are completed.
Quality
• Coordinate with internal teams to solve production planning issues and resource/skill allocation to ensure products are delivered to schedule and build quality standards maintained.
• Perform regular product checks to ensure consistency of quality and build conformity, supporting team members with a continuous improvement focus.
• Be a role model for quality and proactively seek team process improvements.
Efficiency
• Ensure that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored, and targets achieved.
• Apply lean manufacturing techniques to team operations, aiming to exceed company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality.
Continuous Improvement
• Proactively help to resolve customer product concerns by root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions, ensuring team buy-in to changes.
• Lead regular shift team briefings that focus on quality, cost and delivery ensuring that team members are encouraged to contribute continuous improvement ideas that are fed back through management processes.
• Effectively implement engineering changes, production trials and model changes.
• Ensure that internal and external audit standards are maintained, and that timely action is taken to address any improvement requirements identified.
  
  Demonstrates a full understanding of customer expectations with an awareness of the impact that poor product quality has on customer trust and Nuaire's reputation. Enthusiastic about the team and able to anticipate issues and problem solve in a fast-paced changing environment., Experience of people management in a manufacturing environment
• Experience of promoting process improvements
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques
• Knowledge of continuous improvement techniques
• Good people skills - has an available and approachable style, able to gain the respect and trust of team members
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Good problem-solving skills.
Desirable:
• Team briefing skills
• First aid and mental health first aid trained, although training will be provided
• Experience of delivering 'toolbox' talks / training
• Experience of conducting performance reviews and return to work meetings
• Technical knowledge of ventilation products would be advantageous, but not essential as training will be provided
• A good standard of English literacy and Mathematics (GCSE or equivalent)
  
  Here at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group's success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.