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Amazing opportunities.\nGKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.\nJob Summary\nLead assigned manufacturing teams to safely produce conforming aerospace transparencies on time, at the required cost and productivity levels, while building employee capability and engagement.\nExecute daily management, leader standard work, performance coaching, and structured problem solving to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance in a fast-paced, regulated manufacturing environment.\nServe as the first-line connection between employees and site leadership by setting clear expectations, removing barriers, escalating risk, and sustaining disciplined operating standards.\nJob Responsibilities\n1. Safety, Environmental and Workplace Control\nLead daily work with a safety-first mindset; verify employees understand applicable hazards, controls, personal protective equipment, and site procedures before work begins.\nConduct routine floor presence, safety observations, pre-shift communications, and prompt escalation of hazards, injuries, near misses, environmental concerns, and unsafe conditions.\nEnsure compliance with lockout/tagout, machine guarding, material handling, housekeeping, chemical, ergonomic, emergency, and other requirements applicable to the assigned area.\nStop or redirect work when conditions could compromise employee safety, product integrity, equipment, or the environment.\n2. Production, Quality and Delivery Execution\nSupervise daily activities of assigned employees so parts, products, materials, and production records conform to established quality and manufacturing standards.\nTranslate the production plan into clear shift priorities, staffing assignments, work sequencing, and escalation needs; coordinate constraints with support functions and peer Team Leaders.\nMonitor safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, attendance, work-in-process, scrap, rework, and downtime performance; take timely action when results deviate from plan.\nEnsure required work instructions, process specifications, tooling, materials, training, and resources are available and used as intended.\n3. Daily Management and Structured Problem Solving\nExecute Daily Management and Standardized Work through Leader Standard Work, tiered communication, visible metrics, routine floor reviews, and disciplined action follow-up.\nIdentify abnormalities, contain immediate risks, escalate barriers, and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions with accountable owners.\nUse practical Lean and continuous-improvement methods to reduce waste, improve flow, simplify work, and strengthen repeatable performance.\nVerify that improvements are documented, communicated, trained, and sustained without compromising safety, quality, configuration control, or customer requirements.\n(Cont...)\n4. People Leadership, Engagement and Development\nBuild and lead a highly engaged team; set clear expectations, ensure employees have the resources needed to succeed, and recognize meaningful contributions.\nCreate and sustain a culture aligned with Great Place to Grow values through visible leadership, respectful communication, consistency, and follow-through.\nProvide timely, candid performance feedback; conduct performance appraisals; coach employees to close gaps and strengthen capability.\nIdentify development opportunities, support cross-training and succession readiness, and help employees leverage their strengths and pursue growth.\nDrive employee engagement actions and partner with Human Resources on attendance, performance, conduct, labor-relations, and employee-support matters in accordance with company practices.\n5. Cross-Functional Coordination and Compliance\nCollaborate with other Team Leaders and with quality, engineering, planning, maintenance, EH&S, supply chain, Human Resources, and continuous-improvement partners to optimize site performance.\nCommunicate shift status, risks, constraints, priorities, and required decisions accurately and promptly across shifts and leadership levels.\nComply with applicable Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Export Control, labor, security, quality, environmental, health, and safety requirements.\nPerform other related duties consistent with the role and business needs.\nJob Qualifications\nHigh school diploma or GED equivalent.\nFive years of experience in a manufacturing environment.\nDemonstrated ability to organize daily work, communicate expectations, address operating issues, and work effectively with production employees and support functions.\nAbility to use basic business and manufacturing systems for communication, performance tracking, documentation, and follow-up.\nAbility to work on-site in an active manufacturing environment and support the schedule required by the assigned operation.\nMust satisfy all position-specific employment eligibility, export-control, site-access, and security requirements applicable to the work performed, including ITAR/EAR requirements.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Management, Business, or a related field.\nExperience supervising and leading production personnel in aerospace, defense, aviation, or another regulated manufacturing environment.\nExperience leading teams in a unionized environment.\nDemonstrated ability to engage, train, coach, evaluate, and develop direct reports.\nExperience with Lean manufacturing, daily management, leader standard work, structured problem solving, or continuous improvement.\nExperience supporting aerospace manufacturing operations or supply-chain commitments.\nCompensation Data\nSalary Range: $85,898 - $107,372\nWe’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?\nA Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working\nEveryone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.\nWe’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.\nWe are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7474,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Aerospace Manufacturing","Aircraft Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T09:24:10Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.814,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":27,"expected_fill_days":19,"reasons":["conf:3","wave","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":107372,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gkn-aerospace-team-leader-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gkn-aerospace-team-leader-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T16:45:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22486,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1833182},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1833182"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-team-leader-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-team-leader-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-team-leader-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gkn-aerospace-team-leader-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgkn-aerospace-team-leader-3"}]}