Team Leader (CNC Engineering) - Double Days - Manufacturing & Engineering - Trafford Park - Competitive Salary
About the Company
The client manufactures specialist materials for Industry and Science and have built a strong global business based on delivering technical excellence and high standards of customer service.
Working pattern:
Double Days
Week 1 = Monday , Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 06.00 – 14.00
Week 2 = Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 13.45 – 22.15 but on the Friday same week it's 13.00 – 18.30
Team Leader (CNC Engineering) – The Rewards
- Competitive Salary
- Overtime available (not guaranteed)
- 25 days holiday, plus 8 days bank holidays
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Flexible holidays (purchase or sell) x 2
- 5.5% employer pension contribution and 3.5% employee contribution
- Company sick pay scheme increasing with time at the company
- Cycle to work scheme
- Non Contractual bonus scheme (based on company performance)
- Pre-employment Medical
- EAP (24/7 Helpline)
- Annual salary review
- Free beverage vending machine
- Perks at Work platform
- Social events
Team Leader (CNC Engineering) – Requirements
- Team Leader experience in a similar environment (CNC background)
- Completed an engineering apprenticeship
- Good understanding of engineering practices and methods
- Knowledge of powder metallurgy processes
- Knowledge and understanding of machining methods, particularly vertical CNC milling machines and lathes
- Able to communicate effectively through various written methods
- Assertive when required
- Able to delegate effectively
- Able to motivate and recognise opportunities for team members to develop
- Proactively identifies and deals with conflict
- Acts with initiative
- Understand what motivates his team and gets the best from them
- Knowledge of Excel, able to understand and interpret spreadsheets
- Good understanding of Word, Outlook & PowerPoint
- Able to work with MRP / ERP systems and understand the limitations/processes of these systems
- Able to think logically through solving a problem
- Able to manage frequently and rapidly changing priorities and react in a clear and rational manner
- Dedication to the job and a willingness to achieve.
Team Leader (CNC Engineering) – Responsibilities
- Supervise team members on a daily basis during the normal operation of the machine shop in line with production planning
- Ensure that team members are developed, guided & supported during the normal operations of a busy machine shop, ensuring that business KPIs are achieved.
- Must be able to lead and inspire the Manufacturing Team to achieve expectations whilst ensuring 100% quality and accuracy.
- To champion a continuous improvement culture within your team, supporting with continuous improvement activities and supporting overall team development.
- Conduct area audits and follow through with corrective actions
- Ensure that team members have an adequate workload on a daily basis
- Determine the best use of manpower in the team.
- Ensure that tooling, fixtures and relevant information is available for members when required.
- Identify any engineering requirements/issues that arise and communicate to the relevant person – (Production Planner, H&S, Commercial, Maintenance & Engineering Departments)
- Ensuring routine maintenance is carried out as necessary
- Be available to hand over from or to another team leader at the start or end of the shift.
- Manage staff attendance and development
- Complete yearly PDRs for each team member
- Monitor and manage work attendance
- Identify any training requirements for team members/capability issues
- Conduct Start of Shift / End of Shift meetings to update the ‘SQCDP' charts
- Operate VMC machines and other workshop equipment
- Set and prove out job, obtaining a first of job has been proved out.
- Run milling machines after setting, ensuring that quality is maintained throughout the entire production run.
- Ensuring routine machine maintenance is carried out as necessary
- Operate CNC and Manual CMM machines, following instructions to run programs to check drawing compliance of manufactured parts.
- Be a ‘First Of' stamp holder
- Ensure that health and safety guidelines and practices are maintained and developed.
- Ensure that team members work in a safe manner both to themselves and to their colleagues
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant H&S policies and procedures and act as a role model in demonstrating compliance within the workplace
- Ensure all operators are adequately trained and informed of all relevant H&S matters
- Attend weekly production meetings
- Ensure that work is progressed through the machine shop in a timely manner according to priorities set by the Production Planner
- Assist with problem-solving any issues that appear.
- Communicate any issues through appropriate methods to the engineering, commercial and technical departments
- Assist the operators, when required, with the day-to-day operations
- Recommend courses of action for moving capacity around, ensuring customer deliveries and KPIs are met
- Identify and develop manufacturing improvements/procedures
- Understand all of the material specifications that produces to and what that means for production
- Understand what are the individual quality requirements imposed by customers and ensure that these are met with production
- Ensure that any methods improvements are communicated through the appropriate means Knowledge/experience/skills
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