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Maxwell Consultancy are working with a global engineering business in their search for a Machine Shop Manager. This is a permanent, full - time position working from their state of the art workshop in Glasgow.
The company operate across different industries including Renewables, Oil & Gas and Water. With an extremely healthy order book, this is a fantastic opportunity to help bolster and grow the Machine Shop.
What's required?
- Driving a positive / safe working environment ensuring housekeeping and visual management is maintained at the highest of standards across both the machine shop and weld and fabrication areas.
- Lead and manage meetings from startup meetings, communicating all key messages including but not limited to SQCDIP, safety alerts, quality warnings, toolbox talks and daily priorities.
- Maintain and communicate machine shop and weld and fabrication areas performance ensuring visual management boards are used in all areas. This will guarantee to employees, colleagues, customers, and other managers from across the organization can review and understand status and key KPI tracking.
- Steer positive KPI results, ensuring you hold true to our company values including always doing the right thing. Always leading by example.
- Be responsible for and manage a proactive and sustainable 5s culture within each accountable area.
- Take a positive approach to coaching, developing and performance managing cell team members when required.
- Monitor and Control actual versus estimated operation times. Improving where needed and holding the team accountable to the planned times.
- Identify and implement operational improvements.
- Liaise while building key relationships with appropriate support functions (quality, engineering, inspection, planning, scheduling, and supply chain etc.) to resolve issues and any potential production constraints in a timely manner.
- Technical ability and background in machining and fabrication and weld vital to allow support of the responsible areas and teams daily.
- Control and maintaining overtime working in line with production requirements.
- Working closely with the material management team to ensure efficient material flow within and between areas.
- Leading quality to the required standards, raising any quality concerns as soon as possible.
- Liaise with appropriate support functions to resolve issues and potential production stops in a timely manner.
- Implement and preserve safety Gemba walks.
- Conduct periodic audits as required by EHS and Quality departments.
- Raise NCRs as and action when required.
- Facilitate and action any corrective actions.
What to expect?
- Opportunities to develop
- Bonus
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Holiday buy and sell
- Pension
- Life Cover
- Employee Assistance Program
- Digital Benefits; Health, Wealth & Lifestyle
