Team Leader - Viaflo

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

We are seeking an experienced Production Team Leader to join our Thetford Manufacturing plant within our Viaflo team. With a high emphasis on visible Leadership, accountability and building a real team ethos, this role is ideal for anyone looking to make a difference in our quest to deliver products timely and accurately. The daily responsibilities of the Team Leader is to ensure and drive manufacturing activities to ensure that they are aligned to the commercial business requirements by close collaboration with supply planning, engineering, quality and warehouse/logistics and pack teams on site.

This role is rotating shifts, Monday-Sunday between 06:00-18:00/18:00-06:00 which is 42 hours per week. This could look like 3 days on, 4 off, 2 nights on, 3 off etc. We offer a competitive salary AND a weekly shift allowance of £109.86.

We offer some fantastic benefits which are listed below:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Employee discount scheme

• Blue light card

• Fantastic internal progression opportunities

• Subsided canteen

• Westfield healthcare

• Up to 8% pension contribution

• Employee assistance programme

Essential Duties and Responsibilities.

• Form part of the operations team working online as part of the crew support in all areas

• Responsible for the team’s performance and lead accordingly

• Recording of labour hours accurately and advance issues when required

• Responsible for recording of hourly performance and act when needed, gather data to enable process/ reliability improvements

• Organize the teams daily work routine, ensuring focus on safety & quality

• Document preparation, Batch document review, batch doc errors.

• Booking of materials to the line, maintain stock accuracy

• Provide process guidance, raise process deviation as applicable

• Training execution and documentation

• Ensure all areas of responsibility are GMP compliant, housekeeping standards are always maintained.

Skills / Experience

• Operational experience in a manufacturing environment

• Team Leader experience is cruicial within this role

• Team player and able to motivate & empower others

• Accurate and attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills

What happens next?

Baxter Talent Acquisition team will review your application (please make sure your up to date CV is attached) and if deemed suitable you will receive an invitation to complete an online assessment via hirevue. This acts as a 1st stage interview and allows us to learn a little more about you. We will review this together with the hiring managers and let you know if you have been invited to site for a final stage interview.

Thank you for your interest in Baxter and we look forward to hearing from you!

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