Are you currently looking for a new career opportunity within Automotive Manufacturing? Are you keen to work within an Automotive OEM? If so, Expleo have the opportunity for you! Expleo Engineering are seeking a Group Leader - Paint to be responsible for achieving volume, quality and cost targets through the combined team effort of direct and indirect departments. This will be a permanent role based at our clients sites in West Midlands and South Wales. Responsibilities of the Group Leader - Paint include: Continuously improve all areas of operations including quality, schedule achievement, cost and people development. Plan and co-ordinate manufacturing operations within areas of responsibility. Ensure that the departmental area of responsibility can function at all times. Motivate, support and lead the team through coaching and mentoring. Achieve required performance in areas of housekeeping, waste management, and compliance to safety and environmental legislation. Enable the team to set work standards/processes, implement assignments/labour loading and achieve production targets. Develop and implement robust problem containment and resolution to protect the customer. Monitor team local budgetary spend on overtime, tooling, and other consumable type items. Background, skills and experience required for the Group Leader - Paint role: Previous background within Automotive production team leadership and development. Experience coaching and mentoring to enable effective team morale and performance. Ability to use diagnostic skills to determine faults and lead a team in the rectification of such faults. Facilitate team training needs by identifying team strengths and weaknesses. Experience of Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques and ability to use diagnostic skills to determine faults and lead a team in the rectification of such faults. Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe. To meet with current legislation, right to work checks will be carried out to ensure candidates are able to work within the UK, unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role. Please note, for this role, a full driving licence is required and the ability to travel at short notice. Any application will be treated in a highly confidentiality manner and all conversations will be respected. For more information on the Group Leader - Paint role, please apply now