Job Opportunities - Internal

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:

To be a member of the Valhalla Body Construction team and support daily build operations across build stations responsible to the Group Leader ensuring the highest quality of work.

• To motivate and lead the team through effective communication, identifying and controlling clear roles and responsibilities for all team members, promoting a culture of self-discipline and control.
• To co-ordinate and enable team activities engaged in the immediate area of responsibility, in accordance with laid down schedule requirements and all company standards/processes, (Quality, ISO 9000, Environmental, and H&S).
• Ensure effective team working by efficient use of labour/resource and engagement with all build support staff including Engineers.
• Removal of all ‘waste’ within the team’s area of responsibility such as non-value-added work, rework, and rejects.
• To ensure that all record/legal build requirements are maintained in accordance with area of responsibility.

Grade: The successful candidate will retain their current personal grade, with the addition of a Lead Technician Allowance.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Enable team members sufficient time to complete work within their agreed area of responsibility (including updating visual management).
• Ensure the team can function at all times in terms of appropriately skilled labour, standardised performance, consumable materials and effectively maintained equipment, to achieve production schedules.
• Control and reduce all forms of waste using Kaizen, 5S, PPS and FTPM principles in order to meet departmental targets including cost, housekeeping, scrap reduction, off-std reduction, rework and ISO14001.
• Monitor, control, and improve the quality level within the team, referring to Company and customer quality standards at all times.
• Lead the team in the development of world-class performance in the establishment of housekeeping principals, 5S, compliance and adherence to safety/environmental regulations.
• Enable the team to agree work standards with industrial engineers and implement man assignments/labour loading to achieve the required production and quality targets /standards. However lean principles should be used as a key driver in establishing standard processes, resource allocation and process/work area layout.
• Enable the key team members to update and maintain all visual management boards including AMPS, Quality, and team communication boards.
• Promote the use of techniques for controlling and improving processes, e.g. Standard Operations, Kaizen, SPC, Variability reduction teams etc. to ensure efficient and standardised production operations.
• Plan and control the re-allocation of labour when skill shortages occur due to absence, off-job training, job rotation, etc. Maintain accurate and relevant skill matrices, versatility matrices and operator training sign-off sheets for all training and development.
• Building a culture within a team that does not knowingly ship a defect forward.

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.
• Required to meet the quality and safety standards at all times.
• The role must observe all AML systems and processes that support the production process, EASE, FLAGS, shortage process and build instructions.
• Needs to have the ability to use diagnostic skill 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 training in Kaizen, Industrial Engineering, Quality and Process Management, Disciplinary procedure understanding as well as ISO 14001 appreciation.
• Computer Literate.
• Flexibility to work shift patterns, overtime, weekends to achieve production targets.
• The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
• The post holder will be required to comply with all policies and procedures issued by and on behalf of Aston Martin Lagonda ltd.

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).

All production employees are required to align with fixed holidays throughout the year in line with production shutdowns. Your annual leave ‘floating days’ are on a pro-rota basis based on your start date and can be taken outside of those shutdowns.

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.

We will only be looking to consider applications from those who are permanently eligible to work in the United Kingdom, as no ongoing sponsorship is available for this particular position.