Heat Treatment Team Leader

Heat Treatment Team Leader

Xtrac is seeking an experienced Heat Treatment Team Leader to join our team. As a Heat Treatment Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of heat treatment specialists and ensuring the efficient and effective operation of our heat treatment processes.

About the Role

As a Heat Treatment Team Leader, you will be responsible for:

• Delegating and managing workflow to achieve the required levels of quality and output

• Ensuring that operations carried out by your team and visitors are conducted in accordance with relevant safety documentation or policies

• Coordinating with the H&S team or department manager to escalate any issues or incidents

• Maintaining accurate records and reports

Day to Day

• Ensure that operations carried out by your team and visitors are conducted in accordance with relevant safety documentation or policies

• Ensure safe working practices are in place by liaising with the H&S team or department manager to escalate any issues/incidents

• Ensure that any daily/weekly/monthly checks are completed

• Ensure that new team members are trained in accordance with the company and work area induction pack

• Be responsible for ensuring your team always maintain clean and tidy work areas (using 5S methodology)

• Participate in and utilise your skills to solve work-related problems by generating RFCs, investigating NCRs and scrap booking reasons

• Ensure your team members report any quality/manufacturing issues to the manufacturing support department

• Ensure that written processes, procedures, and standards are kept up-to-date and reflect best practice

• Ensure that team members adhere to written processes, procedures, and standards

• Ensure that set-up sheets are in place and used correctly

• Ensure that all measuring devices in your team's area are within calibration date, any items out of date shall be made available for calibration

• Assist the department manager to maintain department KPI's

• Be responsible for managing your team's workload and adherence to the 'Work to List Rules' to ensure the department KPI's are met

About You

• Leadership and management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development

• Good understanding of the heat treatment process

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office

• Good understanding of manufacturing principles

• Working with ERP Systems

• Ideally having good understanding of Lean Manufacturing Tools (5S)

• Understanding of transmission components

Where this role could take you

• Progression to department manager

• Gain understanding of metallurgy basics

• Will experience a wide range of all parts manufactured at Xtrac

• Will work close with and gain knowledge from other team leaders, senior heat treat technicians and metallurgists

• Work with production managers, quality, planning, production engineering and manufacturing engineering team

About Xtrac

Xtrac is one of the world's leading manufacturers of Motorsport and High-Performance Automotive Transmission Solutions. Our products are used internationally across the most prestigious motorsport events.