team member Fareham, England
Job description
Job Tittle: PSC Team Member
Location: Fareham
As an active member of the Cell/Area Team achieve world-class QCD (Quality, Cost and Delivery) performance by rigorously applying standard work, and actively supporting the improvement of the Personalization processes and machine performance.
Primary Purpose of the Role:
Apply standard work to achieve consistent QCD (Quality, Cost and Delivery) performance: Sustain and promote the WCE personalisation system: standard work, quality standards, Health and Safety procedures. (80%) Sustain Cell/area and machine conditions: 5S, autonomous maintenance, trouble-shooting. (10%) Actively contribute to improvement activities to achieve world-class QCD results: PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) / DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) problem solving teams, improve 5S and work standards, proposing and implementing improvements. (10%)
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
Gemalto considers the core areas of Health, Safety, Environment and Security as key to our business. The following generic responsibilities are therefore applicable to all employees, in all job functions.
Health, Safety and Environmental Responsibilities
It is the responsibility of all employees to:
Wear the correct protective equipment, in using appropriate safety devices, and in adhering to all laid down rules and procedures. Employees must take adequate care for their own health and safety and for the health and safety of other employees who may be affected by what they do.
Report all accidents, no matter how small, and co-operate fully with the Company in the investigation of any accident.
Promote good standards of health and safety. This duty particularly extends to the maintenance of good housekeeping, to the proper use of machinery and equipment, and to the avoidance of actions that is known or believed to be unsafe.
Any employee who knows, or believes, that a hazard or other health and safety problem exists must, without delay, report the circumstances to their Manager or Loss Prevention Team (LPT) member utilising the Risk Identification Reporting (RIR) system.
Employees who have suggestions for the improvement of the Company’s health and safety performance are encouraged to make these suggestions known to their Manager or LPT member.
Security Responsibilities
It is the responsibility of all employees to fully adhere to the security standards within our business.
Security doors must never be propped, held, or left open when not in immediate use for the transfer of people or product. Employees must wear their badge visibly at all times, respect the level of access control provided by their access card and ensure that their card is not used by anyone other than themselves.
Employees within the production areas must abide by the procedures within the production processes that are applicable to the reconciliation of the audit trail. All operators are responsible for their production process and the reconciliation of work within that process.
Employees using PCs must abide by the IT Security procedures at all times. Mandatory elements include, but are not limited to:
Hard-drive and BIOS passwords must be activated on all Gemalto laptops.
Antivirus must be running.
Passwords must never be divulged to others.
Personal accounts must never be shared with others (you must not allow anyone to use your login).
Unapproved Peer-to-peer software must not be used.
About You:
Essential knowledge and competencies
Knowledge of the work (facts and reasons):
Understands complete personalisation process and flow.
Intimate understanding of customer-supplier link: Knows the needs of all of his/her internal and external customers and his/her own role in fulfilling these, including performance and quality requirements, information exchanges and dependencies. Knows his/her requirements as an internal customer.
Understands and able to run to standard all machines and processes in their Cell/area (Skill Level: Team Member), and an additional Cell/area (Skill Level: Senior Team Member).
Understands and able to use cell metrics, where applicable. Can explain their links to operations/business objectives and how they can be used to drive process improvement.
Able to maintain the machines so that they are clean and in excellent working condition, identify and fix faults (increasing complexity according to Skills Level).
Level 3 NVQ (or equivalent) in Engineering Maintenance (Skill Level: Expert (Tech)).
Knowledge of responsibilities:
Understands and rigorously follows standard work.
Understands performance and strives to meet objectives and targets.
Skill in Improving Methods:
Yellow Belt (Skill Level: Team Member).
Orange Belt (Skill Level: Senior Team Member), including PDCA root-cause analysis.
Green Belt (Skill Level: Expert).
Skill in Instructing (Skill Level: Senior Team Member)
Training within Gemalto – Job Instruction (TWG-JI).
Skill in Leading (Skill Level: Senior Team Member)
Training within Gemalto – Job Relations (TWG-JR).
If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
You will be working under shifts (Early & Night Shift)
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organization.
Company Story
The future is full of excitement and change; each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today.
Our 3 priorities throughout the crisis remain constant:
To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.
To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.
And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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