Graduate Production Engineer

Rewards and Benefits on Offer; * Option to work a 4 or 5 day week * Competitive pension contribution * Dayshift hours * Opportunity to gain experience across all aspects of the business to develop your skills * Natural progression into the engineering side of the business within 12-18 months * Working with various prestigious blue-chip customers on a daily basis Working Hours: * 39 hours, Mon – Thurs * 7am – 5:15pm MTrec’s New Opportunity; MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious manufacturing client based just outside Newcastle, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a Graduate Production Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a rapidly growing, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and fantastic opportunities to progress your career. If you have a background in production or process engineering, ideally with some additional experience in planning/control, please apply now for an immediate response. The Job You’ll Do; * Planning, organising and controlling activities of production through the Production Supervisors. * Responsible for production plan preparation based on forecasts, stock positions and orders. * Ensures compliance with specification, company policies and procedures, rules and regulations including welfare, H&S, quality (ISO 9001) and environment (ISO 1400)1. * Resource management within the production area including reporting on performance and attendance of the resource to the General Manager. * Maintaining profitable and efficient throughput of production items in accordance with specifications (including packaging and transport). * Liaising with the quality department, the General Manager and Project and Tooling Manager (as necessary). * Any additional duties that the General Manager deems appropriate to the job role and to assist the business. * Assisting the General Manager with forecasting and production planning discussing any present or future business volume, including adjustments of shipping commitments due to production constraints. * Reviewing and approving monthly production schedule for the month execution of production plan. * Providing accurate daily reports on produced items, rejects and scrap. * Liaising with the Procurement and Production Co-ordinator to ensure that records are accurate and up to date daily. * Identifying manpower forecasts, then allocating workload per employee with Supervisors to satisfy customer needs and to meet delivery schedules. * Reacting to poor performance and lack of productivity either through human resource or machinery / equipment. * Implementing and monitoring the preventive maintenance plan for equipment in line with production levels and forecasting. * Reviewing and assisting in any disciplinary action, leave application, overtime work, employee and Supervisor reporting, ISO documents and other matters related to employee\’s compensation. About You; * Mechanical Engineering qualifications/background would be highly desirable (Apprenticeship, NVQ, HNC, HND, Degree). * Experience within a Production planning, control, process or engineering role * Ability to use Microsoft Office package (Outlook, Word and Excel). * Confident and professional being the 1st point of contact for customers. * Good organisational and communication skills at all levels. * Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation, adapting quickly to change where necessary. * Absolute attention to detail