Encapsulation Team Leader in Pulborough

About Us

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation, a family owned business for over 75 years, takes pride in powering progress in health, security and quality of life. We are key partners with the world’s leading medical devices, semiconductor, scientific analytics and industrial systems manufacturers. When they want to push the limits of what’s possible with high voltage applications, they turn to us to make it happen.

While Spellman is not a household name, our products are used to make and often power many of the most advanced technologies that make modern life possible. With design and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia, we have become the preferred provider of high voltage power solutions for OEMs pushing the boundaries of technology around the world by designing and producing the products they need to power progress.

MAIN OBJECTIVES

Responsible for the supervision of the encapsulation process for electro mechanical assemblies and hands-on encapsulation processes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Planning, allocating, and co-ordinating workload in accordance with production schedule and other internal customers in line with capacity requirements.
• Maintenance and filter change of Spray booth in accordance with procedures.
• Sealing, priming, encapsulating and mechanical assembly of units for encapsulation. Operating automated equipment to pour encapsulation into assemblies.
• Carrying out routine maintenance checks and cleaning of potting machine, compressor and vac pump and training other employees to ensure maintenance tasks are completed.
• Training employees to ensure there is essential backup for encapsulation tasks.
• Raising production paperwork including non-compliance/rework records and stores requisitions in accordance with company processes.
• Working as part of a team to ensure departmental objectives are achieved.
• Ensuring all quality procedures for build and workmanship standards, repair techniques and ESD requirements are implemented.
• Working with other team members to continuously improve quality and processes, maintain and improve housekeeping in accordance with 5S tasks and cleanliness of work area.
• Ensuring personal protective equipment, particularly respiratory protection requirements, are observed and maintained.
• Ensuring familiarisation 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 and safety management system requirements.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE 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

• The role includes the 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 use of mechanical aids where applicable) in accordance with risk assessment and safe working practices.
• Occasional lifting and movement of equipment/materials up to 800kg with use of mechanical aids in accordance with risk assessment and safe working practices.

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.

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.