£35K/yr to £41K/yr
Trafford, England
Permanent, Variable

Team Leader

Posted by Detail2Recruitment.

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

About Us

Detail2Recruitment acts as an employment agency in respect of this position. Please note, due to a high volume of applications, you may not receive a response if unsuccessful. For information on how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please refer to privacy-policy

We use cookies to measure usage and analytics according to our privacy policy.