Production

The Manufacturing Workshop Manager role demands a professional and driven person possessing excellent technical, management, organisation and commercial skills.  This is a broad role including the planning and management of the company’s in-house manufacturing facility to ensure the efficient and timely manufacture of components.  As a core member of the company’s production team, it is critical that the Manufacturing Workshop Manager takes a proactive approach to ensuring that shipment dates are met.  The role includes responsibility for production planning, quality control and daily management of machinists

.  The following highlights key aspects of the role: -

General responsibilities

·         To review machine shop capacity with the Operations Manager in respect of staff absences, planned overtime and sub-contract options on a weekly basis.

·         To produce works orders from MRP and schedule according to due dates as set at weekly meetings.

·         To ensure that work scheduling is processed and maintained to ensure on time delivery with respect to customer due dates.

·         Hold weekly production meetings with shop floor staff to discuss workload, priority setting, and technical issues. 

·         Produce and suggest improvement ideas on KPI’s relating to productivity, error rates, on time works order completion.

·         To manage the tooling, consumables, raw material and production overtime budgets.  Any non-budgeted items to have business case presented for review by the Operations Manager.

·         Day to day management of the machine shop staff including maintenance of agreed work scheduling, holiday requests, overtime levels work practices and general discipline. 

·         To ensure the current stringent levels of manufacturing quality are maintained.

·         Ensure that actual production times are recorded and loaded into costing system.

·         To assist with implementation of Bar Code Scanning system for works order tracking.

·         Highlight Raw Material issues to Purchasing to ensure availability and prevent over-stocking.

Health and Safety responsibilities

·         Monitoring workshop practices to ensure a safe working environment and safe working procedures are both adopted and adhered to at all times.

·         To ensure the staff are trained to meet the requirements of their appointments.

·         Ensuring hygienic practices for staff used facilities.

·         Scheduling machine maintenance procedures.

You may be required to carry out other reasonable duties within your capabilities as required and instructed, should the needs of the business require it.

Salary: Negotiable

For more information contact Julie Fretwell at JobSearch Sussex

3 - 4 months contract

Job Purpose:

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