Job Description |
Role Summary (Your Role) |
The Team Leader plays a key leadership role within the production team, balancing hands-on involvement on the production line with guiding and supporting team members. As subject matter experts, Team Leaders ensure production activities meet safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency standards. They take the lead in troubleshooting, resolving issues, managing line schedules, and providing training on procedures. While actively contributing to the team’s daily operations, Team Leaders also hold responsibility for driving shift performance targets. Acting as role models, they develop team members, foster effective communication across shifts and with supervisors, and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team performance and operational success. Team Lead role is responsible for supporting daily production activities, ensuring safety, quality and efficiency while meeting performance targets by leading troubleshooting, managing escalations, covering team members for efficiency, as needed. They also play an active role in developing team members, facilitating communication, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. |
Leadership Capabilities |
Employee Training and Development: - Aid in operator training within the department, by coordinating and identifying training needs for operators.
- Fosters teamwork, efficiency & effectiveness, promote right first time approach.
- Develop a flexible and adaptable work force to meet the business needs.
- Demonstrates through his/her management style respect for the organisations core values and commitment to teamwork.
Supervision of operators: - Co-ordination of operator tasks to meet weekly plan.
- Co-ordination of overtime to meet weekly plan.
- Empowering style of leadership to enable direct reports to fulfil their potential.
- Is a strong and capable decision maker who provides clear direction to all team members including all support functions.
Material Flow: - Partner with the planning department to deliver on the manufacturing plan.
- Accountable for physical movement and information flow of materials from order opening to order closing
- Responsible for Batch Record Lot Review.
- Responsible for reviewing ADS integrity Testing results.
- Responsible for taking QC samples and logging into the QC lab using LIMS.
- Responsible for Kitting & Closing Process Orders.
- Responsible for adherence to Cycle Count Procedure.
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Global Functional Capabilities |
The following capabilities are actively being developed within your function and are essential to enhance performance, drive innovation, and achieve strategic goals. Not all capabilities are relevant to every role, please refer to your role’s technical capabilities and skills to ensure alignment with the global function: - Safety and Quality Excellence: Ensuring the adherence to safety and quality regulations, specifications, and policies to enable strong delivery to the customer. Enabling team members to pre-empt injuries and quality non-conformances by using data-driven insights, formal risk assessments, and proactive safety and quality observations.
- Building & Empowering Autonomous Teams: Establishing a unified, customer-centric delivery approach by forming cross-functional teams within the organization promoting teamwork and collaboration. Developing autonomous culture within these teams by enhancing individual contributors' skills through targeted training programs & enabling team members to work independently to drive efficiency and innovation.
- Operational & Supply Chain Excellence: Ability to manage processes and resources to enhance workforce agility, by leveraging tools and processes of Life Science Production System to ensure reliable supply and cost efficiency. Knowledgeable about supply chain components and the flow of goods and services from raw materials to customers.
- Change Management: Proactively guides teams through change using basic change management concepts. Ability to translate strategic initiatives into clear, actionable plans for production floor with storytelling and examples. Ability to minimize resistance, engage stakeholders, and promote adaptability to achieve operational goals.
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Technical Capabilities & Skills |
In developing your career aspirations, these are the areas of focus to help build your own skillset, while supporting the future state of your functional area: - Tactical Operations Management: Plays an active role in leading day-to-day production activities, while active troubleshooting, implementation of production strategies that align with overall business goals, to ensure daily goals are achieved ensuring safety and quality of products.
- Operational Excellence & Lean Expertise: Drives the adoption of Lean practices within the team by being an early change adopter, focusing on continuous improvement initiatives to reduce waste and enhance overall process efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborates with other team leads to share best practices; communicates team needs to the supervisor, be a role model in embracing Autonomous Concept to promote acceptance within the rest of the team.
- Data-driven Decision Making: Collects and reports team performance data; uses metrics to inform immediate operational decisions.
- Change Management Skills: Supports team members through changes; encourages feedback and adaptation to new processes.
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Key accountabilities |
These Key Accountabilites are possible inputs that the site would have to detail/edit based on local configuration: - Accountable for overall manufacturing performance within shift on all fronts (Safety, Quality, Supply Continuity)
- Responsible for Actively identify areas for immediate improvement and implement best practices at the team level to enhance operational efficiency and product quality.
- Effectively use automation tools and digital applications to streamline daily operations, providing feedback on their effectiveness and troubleshooting any issues that arise.
- Act as Owner & Collaborate with other team leads to share best practices and communicate team needs to supervisors, ensuring alignment and support across departments.
- Data Collection and Reporting: Collect and report team performance data, using metrics to inform immediate operational decisions and drive performance improvements.
- Support Change Management: Assist team members through changes in processes and technologies, encouraging feedback and adaptation to new methods while promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
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Strategic Impact |
Aligned with corporate and site level goals. |