Production Team Lead

About the role

We are seeking a proactive Production Team Lead to oversee our Mauritius operations, supporting international projects for a Swiss multinational in the food & beverage sector. The role offers the chance to drive production excellence, lead a diverse team and collaborate with European stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Lead day‑to‑day production operations, ensuring high‑quality output that meets client expectations, SLAs and deadlines.
• Drive team performance across quality, productivity and operational KPIs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Provide leadership, coaching and development to Production Supervisors, Team Leaders, Artists and Coordinators.
• Plan and allocate resources effectively to optimise workload distribution and team efficiency.
• Collaborate with Client Services and Commercial teams to anticipate workload fluctuations and ensure appropriate staffing.
• Ensure compliance with SOPs and global production standards, promoting adoption of automation tools.
• Oversee artwork production processes, maintaining high standards in prepress, colour separation, trapping, image resolution and barcode accuracy.
• Act as escalation point for production issues, leading root‑cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Lead continuous‑improvement initiatives, workflow optimisation and cross‑training to ensure business continuity.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years of experience in production, operations or a similar environment, including team leadership.
• University degree or equivalent; background in Business Management, Art & Design or Printing Technology is a plus.
• Experience in packaging, printing or prepress is highly valued but not mandatory.
• Strong leadership and team‑management capabilities.

Required skills

• Prepress production processes
• Colour separation and trapping
• Image resolution and barcode accuracy
• Production management software
• Automation and workflow optimisation tools
• Root‑cause analysis and corrective‑preventive action (CAPA) methods