Mechanical Fitter Team Lead
Harlow Recruitment
Job Purpose:
- Oversee department H&S and quality needs,
- Maintain a clean & tidy working environment – using the 5s philosophy,
- Develop & maintain individuals’ training and skill requirements,
- lead teams and direct focus towards goals for achieving production deliverables,
- Be a strong communicator and team motivator,
- Being an ambassador/voice of the mechanical fitting team,
- Demonstrate strong engineering, mechanical skills to assist with manufacturing/production problems,
- Participates in working activities & solves working problems,
- Focus on continuous improvements by creating efficiencies, implementing & completing projects,
- Covering areas/tasks in the absence of the production manager.
Key Responsibilities:
- Department H&S – work area checks at end of working day – promoting good housekeeping.
- Overseeing machine build progress.
- Achieving production deliverables ready for electrical fitting and FAT’s.
- Communicating, leading & motivating the team.
- Act as an educator, communicates expectations – processes, procedures, quality standards & mentoring individuals, e.g. apprentices, new starters.
- Encouraging collaboration & teamwork.
- Setting high quality expectations & upskilling others.
- Reviewing shelf-life of adhesives, checking stock levels of consumables – requesting purchase.
- Works strategically with production manager, updating on successes, issues, concerns & opportunities – verbally or by written report.
- Adhere to the procedures defined by All-Fill’s ISO9001 QA system.
Qualifications:
- Apprenticeship trained
- City & Guilds
- ONC
- trade qualification
- CSE, GCSE, NVQ in English Math, other.
Skills:
- Mechanical Instrument / Special machine building and fitting.
- Understanding and working to technical drawings, using measuring instruments & following SOP’s.
- Bench craft skills – marking drilling cutting, threading, forming & using various hand tools.
- Minimum of 5-year’s experience, in a mechanical manufacturing environment.
- Computer literate and competent in Microsoft