Manufacturing Team Leader

Location: Abingdon
Salary: £50,000 £60,000 per annum
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am 5:00pm

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Manufacturing Team Leader to join a growing advanced manufacturing organisation based in Abingdon. This role leads a manufacturing team, responsible for all production activities following manufacture and treatment through to quality control readiness.

The Manufacturing Team Leader combines hands on technical support with people management, task planning, and process ownership to ensure the safe, compliant, and on time delivery of production requirements. You will work closely with Production Management, Engineering, and Continuous Improvement teams to support manufacturability, resolve production challenges, and drive process improvements.

Key Responsibilities of the Manufacturing Team Leader

• Lead, motivate, and manage the performance of a postprocessing manufacturing team
• Allocate daily workloads and manage shift handovers
• Provide handson technical support where required
• Ensure adherence to SOPs, work instructions, and quality standards
• Maintain high standards of Health & Safety, housekeeping, and 5S
• Manage consumables and oversee routine equipment maintenance
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and manufacturing best practice

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus UK Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme
• Private Healthcare
• Employee Share Option Scheme, with periodic grants of options

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of a critical manufacturing function within a forward thinking engineering environment, offering strong benefits, a competitive salary, and genuine scope to influence operational performance.

If you would like to know more please apply or contact Charlie at Orion.

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