Senior Team Leader

  • The Recruitment Group
  • Loughborough, Leicestershire
  • Dec 05, 2025
Full time

Job Description


The Role

As a Senior Team Leader you will lead a team and be responsible for the safe running of the Manufacturing Facility ensuring efficient production is maintained to the highest quality. The Senior Team Leader will be responsible for understanding the production plan requirements and ensuring adherence to it, taking ownership of any issues and seeking an agile response and remedy. You will own the performance measures of your shift and wider team. The Senior Team Leader will drive high team performance, embracing all aspects of the culture and functional requirements, making continuous improvements and elevating us to the next level.

The Hours

  • This role will involve working a shift pattern of 2 days, 2 nights, 4 off (07:00-19:00, 19:00-07:00

Salary

  • £39,000 Per Annum

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide strong leadership of Health, Safety and Environmental issues by setting high standards that will drive a continued improvement in performance, with a clear target of causing zero harm, with safety at the heart of everything we do
  • Ensure compliance with UK H&S regulations
  • Head up shift HSE meetings
  • Provide training and development, maintaining up to date training matrix of all training
  • Develop a culture of continuous improvement within the team through the encouragement of improvement suggestion, whilst ensuring that the team have received the appropriate CI training.
  • Ensure that all products being manufactured meet quality standards, and line speeds are running at target. Completing all relevant paperwork and carrying out clear handovers and team meetings to enable the consistent management of production operations.

Qualifications/ Experience

  • Previous experience working within manufacturing, leading a multi-skilled team
  • Knowledge and experience of delivering safety metrics
  • Strong computer skills
  • Proven experience of delivering results within timescales
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
  • Highly computer literate
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels

Benefits

  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee discount
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking
  • Sick Pay

For more information and to apply, get in touch with Tonia at our Loughborough Branch to submit your application.

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