Production Team Leader - Moulding

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) : Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for good enough when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments.

And where is our help most needed? The places we live in : cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.

It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Production Team Leader - Moulding to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

• Ensure full presence on the shopfloor for constant monitoring and policing of the shift.
• Standard Cycle Times to target.
• Complete and record daily / shift quality checks.
• Performance to work to list.
• Shift Operator activities to target.
• Ensure department visual management is populated in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ownership of all department communication tools (Machine Boards, Level 1 and 6S)
• Exceptions reported to the departmental Supervisor.
• Ensure a high level of all cross-shift communications.
• Adherence of direct reports & the department to level II responsibilities.
• All accidents fully investigated, and paperwork completed in timely manner.
• All non-conforming incidents reported, and relevant paperwork completed with shift team members.
• Behavioural & safety audits completed to plan.
• Ensure that all team members complete a minimum of one Peer to Peer audit per month.
• Ensure all production and process recording systems are completed accurately.
• Ensure that issues are being highlighted and progressed to resolution with appropriate support function.
• All production figures are captured accurately as required SAP booking accuracy.
• Attendance and participation demonstrated in site improvement teams.
• Departmental teams fully involved with improvement process and delivering improvements.
• Regularly keep team informed of performance against planned outputs.
• Identify training requirements to departmental Supervisor.
• When required complete all absence reporting paperwork and conduct RTW interviews with team members
• Use capability, attendance and disciplinary procedures when required to manage non-conformance within shift team

The profile

• General secondary education
• ILM Level 3 qualification (preferred).
• IOSH Managing Safely
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to lead and support.
• Must be able to demonstrate a flexible management style.
• Must be able to plan and organise activities of self and team, to achieve balance of proactive and reactive tasks.
• Must be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Have an overview of the moulding processes or similar production environment.
• Good communication skills.
• Practical experience of the moulding process
• Practical experience of medium batch production process.
• Previous SAP experience.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company.

We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world.

Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as as strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day.

Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry.

Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens.

Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes.

Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Our key commercial brands are : Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia a company driven by a shared purpose : to advance life around the world.

Orbia operates in several sectors including : Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura).

These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions.

Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.

The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.