Machine Shop Team Leader
Posted 26/07/2024 by Sewtec
Reporting to
Production Manager / Head of Manufacturing
Purpose of the Role
Supervise the machine shop to assist in the timely delivery of parts to high standards, maintaining a high level of diligence, ensuring safety, quality and customer specifications are met.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise the machine shop (Team of approx.10)
- Ensure the team produce specific component parts to high tolerance.
- Carry out all responsibilities as instructed by the Production Management team.
- Offer insights and feedback into work allocation.
- Ensure teams members are clear and concise on the shift objectives.
- Daily hand overs with the night shift
- Work closely with Fabrication Lead, delegate cut lists, manage saw man’s time in line with production needs.
- Ensure production deadlines are met.
- Champion and standardise good working practices / initiatives ensuring innovative processes are implemented and maintained
- Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement
- Produce component parts in tolerance of drawing specifications.
- Maintain a high standard of quality control.
- Investigate Dept. NCR’s and offer ‘lessons learnt’
- Communicate regularly with the Production Management team on specific production requirements.
- Ensure the work environment is conducive to product and service quality
- Comply with the Management System requirements for Health and Safety ensuring others work to company and policies and procedures.
- Report any accidents to line manager.
- Comply with Risk Assessments, Method Statements and the Health and Safety Management System.
- Ensure compliance with the management systems requirement for the Environment and Quality by working to company policies and procedures.
- Liaise and work in partnership with all other functions
- Undertake additional responsibilities and tasks as required
Key Skills
- Supervisory experience.
- Competent in the technical aspects of CNC Turning / Milling / Manual Machining.
- Experience working with both ferrous and non-ferrous materials.
- Able to produce components to a high standard whilst working to tight deadlines
- Working knowledge and general awareness of health and safety issues
- Team-player and ability to work on own initiative
- Attention to detail
Desirable Qualifications
- Minimum City & Guilds or NVQ in relevant discipline (Desirable)
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- Immediate
- Contract Length:
- Permanent
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- MSTL / JC24
- Job ID:
- 221924594
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