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Deputy Team Leader - Production (Night Shift) at DC Thomson: Dundee, Royaume-Uni; Sur site; Contrat; Lead; Ingénierie, fabrication et construction. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Dundee, Royaume-Uni, Sur site
- Role classification: Ingénierie, fabrication et construction, Contrat, Lead
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-09.
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DC Thomson are hiring a Deputy Team Leader - Production (Night Shift) to join the team in Kingsway, Dundee on a permanent basis.
This role exists to ensure consistent, safe, and efficient night‑shift production delivery, acting as the operational anchor that enables continuity, rapid response, and capability building within a time‑critical environment. The Deputy Team Leader supports the Team Leader in delivering production outcomes and assumes full operational accountability during periods of cover, ensuring no loss of performance, quality, or control.
Our Kingsway site produces 11 daily newspaper titles (including the DC Thomson titles The Courier, Press and Journal, Evening Express and Evening Telegraph as well as contracted titles such as the Daily Record and The Guardian among others) alongside Sunday Titles including The Sunday Post and many other weekly and periodicals.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Operating within a challenging high speed environment, on time delivery is the first target of every shift, as would be expected there are cost pressure, asset constraints, and changing customer and workforce expectations, the Deputy Team Leader focuses on execution excellence, resilience, and skills flexibility. It plays a key part in a portfolio-based production model, sharing learning across shifts and supporting the move towards skills-based deployment and outcomes driven performance, rather than reliance on individual roles.
The successful candidate is accountable for shift‑level delivery, discipline, and escalation quality. You will own how work is coordinated, risks are surfaced, and standards are maintained on night shift.
While this role comes a high level of responsibility, you will receive, training, support and guidance when needed with support from the management team day or night.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Supporting safe and compliant production delivery, actively reinforcing Health & Safety standards on shift.
- On‑shift coordination of people and activities effectively, minimising downtime and disruption.
- Accountable for high‑quality incident reporting and escalation, ensuring issues are understood and acted on quickly.
- Maintaining production quality and documentation, enabling traceability and operational learning.
- Role‑modelling standards and behaviours, supporting team skill development and engagement.
- Ensuring smooth handovers and continuity, ensuring clear communication across shifts.