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Lead Production Engineer

Job Posted: 2 days ago

Salary: £ 30,000 - 35,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Bakewell, Derbyshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Inspire Resourcing are currently recruiting a Production Lead on behalf of our fantastic client based in Chesterfield.

This is a great opportunity to join a market leading business, who are passionate about innovation & excellence, offering superb services to their clients globally.

What You'll Do:

In this role you will be responsible for managing and supporting a team of assemblers and technicians to assemble and test monitoring equipment. The main duties are the role are as follows:-

  * To build, test, calibrate and repair of a wide variety of electronic assemblies.

  * Functional testing of both new and existing product at the sub-assembly, PCB and the completed instrument level.

  * Undertake the building and testing a wide variety of electronic assemblies, from discrete PCB’s to finished product.

  * Responsible for the fault find and repair product both at the PCB level and finished product.

  * Responsible for recording test results accurately.

  * Responsible for reviewing the build/test data and determine opportunities for improvement in yield and process performance. Knowledge,

  * Task, support and manage the team on a day-to-day basis

  * Responsible for ensuring that every member of their team is appraised in accordance with the company’s appraisal team

  * Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient workplace is always maintained and production quality is maximised

  * Establishes priorities to ensure assemble team works at peak efficiency

  * Reports on team performance to the Operations Manager.

  * Controls and organises flow of material out of WIP into assembly area to maximise efficiency

  * Makes recommendations about ways to improve team efficiency, increase quality

  * Delegates build tasks so that assemble/test team can meet production deadlines

  * Actively committed to driving team motivation, development, and commitment

  * Assist with working across all areas within test to support busier periods

  * Directly reports each day to Manufacturing coordinator on status of products and status into assembly department

  * Committed to implementation of Lean Manufacturing techniques within the department

  * Ensure 5’s that is implemented is getting completely- weekly audits

  * Attending weekly production meeting with up-to-date information of the status of orders in build and WIP

Requirements

  * You must possess strong technical skills and be able to fault find at PCB level.

  * The ability to interpret a schematic circuit diagram is therefore critical.

  * You will have some degree of manufacturing experience and be able to repair PCB assemblies and must be capable of multi-tasking and be able to manage multiple activities at once.

  * Ideally you will have experience of managing a small team and be able to work independently but be a strong team player. You must have experience of working to deadlines with shifting priorities and be an effective communicator

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