Team Leader, Manufacturing Tradesperson

**Team Leader, Manufacturing - Timber Worker and Metal Fabrication**
- **About the role**

Team Leaders provides effective supervision and support to a small team to carry out day to day operations. Team Leaders assists to maintain a high-quality standard to achieve business outcomes and to provide excellent customer service, ensuring repeat business. This role will focus on providing specific coaching, sometimes on a one-to-one basis, enabling employees with varying abilities to develop skills that meet key performance outcomes for Aruma’s growing business services. will have the opportunity to grow and to assist in different areas on site across metal fabrication, woodwork, recycling, and logistics. Skilled and experienced team leaders (functioning at level 6) will carry out additional duties as a Senior Team Leader.

**Key Focus Areas**
- Full time Employment
- Salary Sacrifice 15,900 benefit
- $27-31 Hourly rate
- Positive work-life-balance

**Daily Procedures**
- Works collaboratively with Supervisor Production Coordinator and other Team Leaders, sharing knowledge that assists supported employees to develop skills to achieve their employment goals
- Undertakes performance development such as supporting induction and onboarding, probation reviews, performance appraisal and formal performance management, with the support of the Production Coordinator
- Ensures team members are always supervised, covering absences or shifts for other Team Leaders, if required
- Models safe work practices, including personal protective equipment, coaching all team members to utilise equipment appropriately
- Displays positive team behaviours that reflect our values, contributing to team results and effectiveness
- Attends and actively participate in scheduled team meetings and other training or development, engaging with opportunities to develop new skills
- Adopts new processes or technology and aligns with the changing needs of the business and customer requirements.
- Provides appropriate care for a diverse team of supported employees with a variety of complex requirements, displaying appropriate tact, sensitivity, and confidentiality
- Adapts communication and supervision style to differing needs and situations, to resolve conflict effectively with assistance
- Works collaboratively with team and internal stakeholders to achieve business or customer goals
- Maintains a professional appearance and manner, including maintaining clear and organised work areas
- Maintains and updates appropriate personal records on Supported Employment supports provided, goals and wellbeing (CIMS or Scout and/ or personnel file), escalating promptly to appropriate manager and Periscope any matters of concern.

What you need to be successful in this role
- Demonstrate respect towards people with a disability
- Excellent customer service
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Sound organisational skills and ability to prioritise work of a small team
- Brings a positive attitude consistent with Aruma’s values and purpose, contributing to an engaging workplace culture celebrating diversity and continuous improvement
- Basic computer skills (MS Office, Sharepoint).
- Continuous improvement approach
- People centred approach to positive workplace culture

**Skills and Experience**

**Must have’s OR Essential**
- A demonstrated commitment to the Aruma’s Code of Conduct
- Trade Qualification
- Production and/or Manufacturing experience
- Forklift licence or must be willing to obtain
- First Aid Certificate or must be willing to obtain
- Demonstrated experience in supervising employees and or teams
- A ent physical fitness to meet the manual handling and environmental requirements of the position
- NDIS Worker Screening Check

**Nice to have’s OR Desirable**
- Formal team leadership training and/or equivalent knowledge and experience with demonstrated ability to supervise and support staff
- Formal qualifications in relevant woodworking, metal fabrication industry or another relevant trade. Please refer to appendix for industry specific requirements
- A Cert III qualification in Disability or related field, and/ or equivalent experience working with people with disabilities, particularly in a service provision context.

**Culture**

People love to work at Aruma because they get the satisfaction of knowing they are Supporting people to live a great life, the life they want, the life they choose. Aruma is also BRAVE. That's what makes us a trailblazer, being part of our team means you need to meet our BRAVE behaviours (**Bold**, **Respectful**, **Authentic**, **Value Teamwork**, **Excellent**)

**How to apply**

If this sounds like you and you would love to join our team, we would love to hear from you.

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All short-listed applicants will be asked to consent to and complete to a criminal record check and NDIS background check via our online systems. We'll also require evidence of current influenza and COVID