Senior Group Leader Maintenance

For over 110 years Aston Martin has made the most exquisitely addictive performance sports cars.

But no one builds an Aston Martin on their own. Behind these legends and landmarks are hundreds of dreamers, darers and doers who make extraordinary happen, every single day. That’s why the name of everyone who has ever worn our famous wings is inscribed on the wall of our factory.

As we embark on an exciting new era for the business, we need the very best people to write their own chapter on our journey to become the world’s most desirable ultra-luxury British performance brand.

Join us.

JOB PURPOSE:

This is a position that will be responsible for coaching and mentoring all direct reports, creating an environment of genuine employee empowerment to achieve ‘World Class’ standards. The incumbent will be responsible for achieving volume, quality, and cost targets through the combined team effort of direct and indirect departments.

The Senior Group Leader in Maintenance will ensure the reliability and efficiency of the plant to support all safety and production requirements and will be responsible for overseeing all aspects involved with the maintenance of the entire site of St Athan. Building a strong and flexible maintenance team that can adapt to the ever-changing world of manufacturing.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Liaise with the Production and Facilities team to ensure all targets are met. Maintain all manufacturing plant, equipment and facilities to a high standard and good working order. Improve equipment reliability by increasing the mean time between failures (MTBF) while reducing the mean time to repair.

• Continuously improve all areas of operations including quality, schedule achievement, cost, and people development.
• Plan and co-ordinate manufacturing operations within areas of responsibility.
• Monitor, control and maintain the quality level within the areas of responsibility to the company quality standards ensuring that the customer (internal and external) is protected.
• Ensure that the departmental area of responsibility can function at all times in terms of labour, consumable materials and maintained equipment in order to achieve the required volume and quality levels.
• Motivate, support, and lead the team through coaching and mentoring.
• Achieve required performance in areas of housekeeping, waste management, and compliance to safety and environmental legislation.
• Control all waste to meet departmental budgets ensuring cost effective use of both company and natural resources.
• Enable the team to set work standards / processes, implement assignments / labour loading and achieve production targets.
• Facilitate the removal of non-value-added work within the manufacturing team in line with company improvement processes (including Six Sigma, Kaizen, AMPS).
• Facilitate team measurement of performance in line with departmental measurables, enabling the team to work on problem resolution and customer protection.
• Plan labour requirements and ensure procedures are followed to recruit labour.
• Maintain an effective level of communication across all areas and levels of the business.
• Manage level one / 8D problem resolution and facilitate team efforts in level zero / 8D investigation.
• Assist and facilitate training to develop team members and minimise impact of labour shortages.
• Ensure data collection is up to date and accurate.
• Audit all visual management in area of responsibility ensuring any corrective action plans are put in place.
• Develop and implement robust problem containment and resolution to protect the customer (internal and external).
• Manage and resolve Industrial Relations issues at a local level.
• Monitor team local budgetary spend on overtime, tooling, and other consumable type items.
• Challenge the status quo by not accepting the current ‘situation’ as the best or the normal.
• Maintain a level of confidentiality with delicate or sensitive company information.

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:

• The job requires team leadership and team development experience in the understanding of technician range of skills that are required within the area.
• Coaching and mentoring experience to enable effective team morale and performance.
• Able to identify team strengths and weaknesses and facilitate training needs.
• Requires a degree of business acumen to enable team reporting systems and procedures to operate effectively.
• Experience of ‘lean Manufacturing’ tools and techniques.
• Needs to have the ability to use diagnostic skills to determine faults and lead a team in the rectification of such faults.
• The job holder will require to have or be willing to undertake in Kaizen, Industrial Engineering, Quality and Process Management, Disciplinary procedure understanding as well as ISO 14001 appreciation.
• Computer Literate
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence others.
• Enthusiastic and determined, highly self-motivated.
• Flexibility to work shift patterns, overtime, weekends to achieve production targets.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• Successful candidates will be required to support/work in other areas as may be necessary.

Volume protection contractual overtime arrangements are in place to ensure required production demands can be met. Stand up and Stand down balances are managed as part of each employees Working Time Account (WTA).

Belong at Aston Martin!

We understand that the incredible beauty, craft, and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. We celebrate diversity and are seeking applicants who can bring something different. Please speak to us if there is anything you need to support making an application with us.