Senior Production Electrician
Ashton-under-Lyne
£45K - £50K
Permanent
To provide technical Production Engineering expertise to the business through the application of engineering skills, including process design, setup and verification. Capability assessments, problems solving and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
Undertaking projects and activities with safety and quality as prime focus. Maintaining and improving business processes and systems. Identifying and implementing effective business measures
Duties:
- Project management of operational improvement projects. Engage multidisciplinary teams, determine and define project scope, objectives, identify and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner. Develop and manage detailed project schedules, providing consistent updates to stakeholders. Utilise industry best practices and standards throughout entire project execution. Evaluate project outcomes to identify areas for improvement.
- Provide a source of Technical Engineering Leadership to the business in general and specifically for the Production Engineering Team. Be a Technical Mentor to the Production Engineers and Apprentices.
- Identify business improvement opportunities within the organisation and use appropriate LEAN tools where applicable, including root cause analysis. Promote best practice and support the development of a LEAN culture within the business.
- Support operations with solving problems that affect production delays to help ensure delivery on time to the customer.
- Identify methods for assessing the capabilities of processes and utilising this data to support production and new product development.
- Develop and maintain required controlled processes documentation and business systems, always focused on improvement of documentation and systems including the identification of opportunities for digitalisation. Develop and maintain written and video SOPs as required within operations.
- Report and escalate any concerns / Production issue etc. to senior management when needed. Communicate frequent top-level status on the progress of major production problem solutions to senior management.
- Support the development of a risk-based approach to product and business improvement utilising PFMEA where applicable
- Conduct manufacturing safety risk assessments for any new equipment, assembly aides or processes introduced, ensuring any identified risks are appropriately designed out or addressed by documented safe system of work SSoW.
- Develop, implement, and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) ensure they are met.
Essential Skill Requirements
- Engineering Qualification
- Experience in production or manufacturing engineering in a quality critical environment (5+ years).
- Experience in effective project management completion of project life cycle.
- Critical thinking ability to evaluate product and process designs and propose improvements.
- Experience in lean/ continuous improvement principles; 5S, FMEA, VSM, Process flow, A3 Problem solving etc.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- IT skills, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and Microsoft project.
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills whilst working on day-to-day actives
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as in a team, with strong communication skills and the ability to build good working relationships at all levels building
- Demonstrates a passion and enthusiasm for engineering excellence and to achieve targets.
- Demonstrates solid organisational skills including attention to detail and ability to multi-task to ensure actions are completed within the deadline.
- Demonstrates a high level of resilience, with the ability to remain calm and focused when under pressure
- Demonstrates drive to continuously identify ways to improve on processes and procedures.
Please send a copy of your CV to Andrew Guthrie at Bamford Contract Services Ltd -(url removed)
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