Manufacturing Team Leader in Crawley

Working hours: Mon - Thurs 8:15 - 5pm and Fridays 8:15 - 12:45

Benefits

• 25 Days holiday plus BH's
• Profit Share Scheme
• Early Finish on a Friday
• 3% Pension
• A discretionary non-contractual payment is usually made in December
• Plus more
• 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.

TPA Recruit is a specialist recruitment agency acting on behalf of our client to source and assess suitable candidates for this position.

All applications will be reviewed and processed by our team, who will liaise directly with shortlisted individuals throughout the hiring process