Manufacturing Process Lead
Glasgow & Renfrewshire
Nine Twenty Engineering & Manufacturing are proud to be working with an industry leading company that produces products for a variety of industries including aviation, automotive and transport industries. We are actively looking for 2 Manufacturing Process Leads, with a strong background in leading smaller teams within manufacturing or industrial settings.
Responsibilities
- Health & Safety
- Embed a H&S culture of zero tolerance ensuring the policy is fully understood, owned and implemented by every employee.
- Ensure machine operators have set up their machines correctly and all pre-shift safety checks have been completed and recorded.
- Promote the use of TCards for near miss and hazard reporting and ensure appropriate action is taken to close T-cards with feedback and recognition to employees.
- Operational
- Deliver the production plan, communicating and highlighting any risk to OTIF in a timely manner to the Lead Supervisor.
- Liaise with the Maintenance team to ensure plant and machinery is kept in full working order, ensuring job requests are logged on Maintain.
- Conduct daily cycle checks and carry out and maintain a monthly stock take.
- Takes ownership of production information recording monitoring and improving KPIs.
- Implement actions identified through internal and external audits (including health & safety and quality inspections) to ensure they are completed in a timely manner.
- Ensure all prescribed quality checks are carried out by machine operators, to ensure product quality is not compromised.
- Prioritise workplace Organisation ensuring the factory is always customer ready.
- Investigate defective material, supporting root cause analysis, measuring effectiveness of corrective actions.
- Manage holiday requests in line with the agreed holiday allocation per area.
- Review holiday balances quarterly to ensure holiday requests are evenly spread throughout the calendar year and not left until the last quarter.
- Manage each absence in line with company policy and ensure all return-to-work meetings are completed within 24 hours of the employee’s return.
- Assist in the recruitment of team members.
- Ensure all payroll related documents are accurately completed and submitted the next working day.
- Training
- Identify and deliver all operational training.
- Conduct on job assessments.
- Monitor and ensure completion of e-learning refresher training.
Requirements
- Experience in leading a small team/cell preferably manufacturing/industrial setting.
- Basic understanding of operational metrics and use of KPI’s.
- Experience of meeting and exceeding health and safety/environmental/quality requirements.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Skilled in multi-tasking and prioritising to achieve set targets.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure.
- Competent IT skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Awareness of managing internal customers within a production environment.