An excellent opportunity for an experienced Machine Shop Cell Leader to join a well-established company

Job Type: Full-Time – Permanent.

Salary: £38,000 Per Annum, Depending on Experience.

Location: Coventry CV6.

Please note: The employer does not hold a Sponsorship License and therefore are unable to sponsor any employees.

About The Role:

A skilled, innovative CNC Milling Machine Shop Cell Leader, capable of implementing processes and procedures as part of the company’s development and delivery of safety critical products, while equally versed in problem solving and continuous improvement techniques. You will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplined team, as well as being a self-driven individual capable of achieving project target requirements and timescales.

Applicants MUST have experience with Mazaks programmes and MAZATROL language.

Job Purpose / Objectives:

• To effectively organise and manage people; machines and workflow to ensure that production plans are achieved, and customer requirements satisfied.
• To ensure that daily; weekly and monthly production targets are achieved across the Cell – as measured by Schedule Adherence and other KPIs.
• To maintain a Safe, Clean and Organised (6S) working environment by ensuring that all health, safety and 6S practices; policies and procedures are understood and adhered to.

Responsibilities:

• ‘Hands-on’ working cell leader role - able to programme; set; operate and troubleshoot each process within the cell.
• Production of parts within the cell – target of 80% of time producing parts.
• Prioritise and manage the order in which works orders are completed within the Cell, ensuring that Works Order due dates are achieved; production capacity is maximised, and Cell downtime is minimised.
• Lead daily ‘start of shift’ and ‘end of shift’ production plan and KPI meetings with all Cell team members (and support staff as required) monitor and manage Cell performance, and to identify and agree daily priorities with members of other Departments and work collectively to ship products to our customers by the required ship date.
• Promote and embed good standards of housekeeping; cleanliness and 6S across the cell to maintain a safe; clean and organised working environment always.
• Promote a team working environment across the Cell, and encourage and support continuous improvement activities to achieve identified improvements.
• Identify and resolve quality issues using daily scrap walks and root cause analysis in order to reduce scrap, non-conformance and rework.
• Work closely with Production Engineering and Maintenance teams to ensure optimal running of manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Recruitment and training of team members, ensuring that team members are trained to a defined standard and are competent to perform their duties at both quality and output standards as identified by the skills matrix for each operator.  Manage holidays; time keeping; grievances and discipline across the team (with support from HR) to ensure that manpower is always in place to deliver the production plan.
• Ensure that daily shopfloor work booking, and route card disciplines are instilled into the team’s daily activities.

This role profile is not intended to be exhaustive, the job holder will on occasions be expected to perform tasks and support the business as required delivering the business objectives identified.

If you feel that you have the relative skills/attributes to fulfil this role then please apply now for immediate consideration.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability. The employer welcomes applications from all candidates who match their requirements and their decision for employment will be based purely on your skills/qualifications.