Encapsulation Team Leader in Pulborough

Encapsulation Team Leader

Responsibilities

• Planning, allocating, and coordinating workload in accordance with the production schedule and internal customer capacity requirements.
• Maintaining and changing filters of the spray booth per established procedures.
• Sealing, priming, encapsulating, and mechanically assembling units for encapsulation.
• Operating automated equipment to pour encapsulation into assemblies.
• Carrying out routine maintenance checks and cleaning of the potting machine, compressor, and vacuum pump, and training other employees to ensure maintenance tasks are completed.
• Training employees to provide essential backup for encapsulation tasks.
• Raising production paperwork, including non‑compliance and rework records, and stores requisitions in accordance with company processes.
• Working as part of a team to achieve departmental objectives.
• Ensuring all quality procedures for build and workmanship standards, repair techniques, and ESD requirements are implemented.
• Collaborating with team members to continuously improve quality and processes, and to maintain and improve housekeeping in accordance with 5S tasks and cleanliness of the work area.
• Ensuring personal protective equipment, particularly respiratory protection requirements, are observed and maintained.
• Ensuring familiarity with relevant elements of the company quality management system, including static handling precautions and workmanship standards, the use of test equipment/systems, and relevant test procedures/specifications.
• Supporting the management systems and improvement team activities for ISO9001 Quality and ISO14001 Environmental and Health & Safety Management System requirements.

The above responsibilities are not exhaustive and you may be required to fulfil other duties and responsibilities from time to time for which you are reasonably qualified.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in an encapsulation process environment.
• Understanding of mechanical assembly procedures and processes.
• Appreciation of modern manufacturing techniques.
• Good communication skills.
• Supervisory / Management experience.

Working Conditions

• Use of PPE where appropriate (e.g., safety shoes, eyewear, gloves, respiratory masks).
• Operation and maintenance of electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic machinery.
• Prolonged standing and walking throughout the workday.
• Regular lifting and movement of materials up to 30kg (with mechanical aids where applicable) in accordance with risk assessment and safe working practices.
• Occasional lifting and movement of equipment/materials up to 800kg with mechanical aids in accordance with risk assessment and safe working practices.

We at Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation believe that each individual is entitled to equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status or disability. The right of equal employment opportunity extends to recruiting, hiring, selection, transfer, promotion, training and all other conditions of employment.