Our client is seeking an experienced Production Team Leader to join a fast-paced manufacturing environment, supporting day-to-day operations while developing and motivating production teams. This role plays a key part in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production aligned with operational targets.
The successful candidate will coordinate colleagues across multiple workstations, provide performance feedback, and help build team skills and confidence. You will also work closely with the Production and Operations Managers to support planning, compliance, and continuous improvement.
This is a hands‑on leadership role, ideal for someone with strong people management skills, a proactive approach to problem‑solving, and a solid understanding of health & safety within a production environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate production operatives across rolling stock workstations, ensuring tasks are completed safely, to specification, and within agreed timescales.
- Drive daily production performance in line with agreed schedules, capturing KPIs and addressing issues impacting output or quality.
- Promote a strong safety culture by completing pre‑start checks, reporting near misses, monitoring welfare, and enforcing H&S procedures.
- Troubleshoot machinery, equipment, and material issues, liaising with maintenance to minimise downtime.
- Support Production and Operations Managers with planning, communication, absence management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills & Experience
- Experience in a production or manufacturing leadership role within a heavy engineering or industrial environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Health & Safety compliance, risk awareness, and safe systems of work.
- Confident people leader with experience coaching teams, managing performance, and resolving issues on the shop floor.
- Practical, hands‑on approach with the ability to identify and resolve operational or equipment‑related problems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge shop‑floor teams and senior management.
Vacancy Summary
Full Time
Salary: c£40,000 per annum, D.O.E
Location: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Job Type: Permanent
#J-18808-Ljbffr”, “datePosted”: “2026-05-17”, “hiringOrganization”: { “@type”: “Organization”, “name”: “Express Recruitment”, “sameAs”: “https://uk.whatjobs.com/pub_api__cpl__435510397__4861?utm_campaign=publisher&utm_medium=api&utm_source=4861&geoID=293” }, “jobLocation”: { “@type”: “Place”, “address”: { “@type”: “PostalAddress”, “addressLocality”: “Mansfield” } } }Our client is seeking an experienced Production Team Leader to join a fast-paced manufacturing environment, supporting day-to-day operations while developing and motivating production teams. This role plays a key part in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production aligned with operational targets.
The successful candidate will coordinate colleagues across multiple workstations, provide performance feedback, and help build team skills and confidence. You will also work closely with the Production and Operations Managers to support planning, compliance, and continuous improvement.
This is a hands‑on leadership role, ideal for someone with strong people management skills, a proactive approach to problem‑solving, and a solid understanding of health & safety within a production environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate production operatives across rolling stock workstations, ensuring tasks are completed safely, to specification, and within agreed timescales.
- Drive daily production performance in line with agreed schedules, capturing KPIs and addressing issues impacting output or quality.
- Promote a strong safety culture by completing pre‑start checks, reporting near misses, monitoring welfare, and enforcing H&S procedures.
- Troubleshoot machinery, equipment, and material issues, liaising with maintenance to minimise downtime.
- Support Production and Operations Managers with planning, communication, absence management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills & Experience
- Experience in a production or manufacturing leadership role within a heavy engineering or industrial environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Health & Safety compliance, risk awareness, and safe systems of work.
- Confident people leader with experience coaching teams, managing performance, and resolving issues on the shop floor.
- Practical, hands‑on approach with the ability to identify and resolve operational or equipment‑related problems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge shop‑floor teams and senior management.
Vacancy Summary
Full Time
Salary: c£40,000 per annum, D.O.E
Location: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Job Type: Permanent
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