Machine Shop Lead - VR/30906

Thorpe Molloy McCulloch Recruitment Ltd; Peterhead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Supervising and supporting workshop teams, ensuring on-time delivery and quality standards. Coordinating with schedulers, overseeing machine operations, leading production meetings, investigating defects, and driving continuous improvement.

Manufacturing Team Leader is directly responsible for providing supervision, guidance, and support to all team members within the workshop, driving for on-time delivery of all components and ensuring these meet the required quality standards.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Liaising with MFR Scheduler and prioritizing all manufacturing work accordingly.
• Ensuring each machine is manned according to requirements flowed down by MFR Scheduler.
• Liaising with TLs from NDT, Flow Room, Dimensional Inspection, and QA to ensure components return to the department as per agreed timelines.
• Leading weekly production meetings and providing information on cover available for the upcoming week.
• Investigating defective and/or scrap components, raising INCs where applicable, attending RCA meetings, and ensuring any actions to prevent re-occurrence are carried out in a timely manner.
• Providing technical support to all workshop personnel, and where required, making key decisions.
• Ensuring all work is conducted in accordance with company policies, procedures, and work instructions.
• Embracing continuous improvement exercises and endeavoring to improve efficiency, profitability, quality, and delivery performance at all times.

Applicants to this role require

• Previous supervisory experience in a machine shop environment.
• Machining apprenticeship (or equivalent).
• Machining SVQ Level 3 (or equivalent).
• HNC in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent).