Job Description
Our client, a leading company in the aerospace industry, is currently seeking a Shop Floor Manager - Panels Assembly. The role is essential for ensuring the efficient delivery of production plans, maximising On Time Start (OTS) and On Time Finish (OTF), and optimising team organisation. This is a permanent position with early working hours from Monday to Friday.
The successful candidate will be responsible for general and operations management within the panels assembly department.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n\nEHS: Promote a safe workplace environment, ensuring compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety policies, procedures, and regulations.\nClocking and Booking: Ensure accurate and timely recordings of time and attendance, as well as job costings.\nHousekeeping: Maintain clean and organised workstations, with all tools and equipment stored correctly.\nQuality: Uphold all quality standards, processes, and procedures, ensuring work is completed with care and minimal wastage.\nCost Management: Support cost reduction and management initiatives by reducing unnecessary expenditure.\nKnowledge & Skills: Keep knowledge and training up to date, ensuring compliance with role specifications and standards.\nTeam Working: Actively participate in team meetings, share knowledge, coach and mentor trainees, and be flexible in learning other areas.\nPerform any other reasonable duties that fall within the level of the role.\n\nSpecific Role Responsibilities:\n\nManaging the Team: Lead and develop the team, ensuring compliance with internal safety and quality guidelines, and minimise staff absence and attrition.\nManaging Production Activities: Plan and control production activities to meet operational objectives, maximising OTS and OTF, and driving efficiency.\nDeveloping Preventative Activities: Enforce preventive measures to reduce occupational and environmental risks.\nCommunication: Facilitate effective communication within the team, conveying operational objectives and action plans, and serve as the point of reference for day-to-day topics.\nEnsuring Team Qualifications: Ensure team members have required qualifications and training.\nComplying with Policies and Procedures: Enforce established procedures, policies, and systems, promoting improvements as needed.\nIdentifying Risk: Identify and mitigate potential risks affecting people, products, or equipment and escalate as necessary.\nAnalysing Indicators: Analyse production, maintenance, and quality indicators, prioritise improvement plans, and lead implementation teams.\nEnergising Improvements: Propose and lead process, system, and organisation improvements.\nEnergising Meetings: Lead regular interdepartmental meetings to achieve maximum efficiency.\n\nJob Requirements:\n\nDemonstrable experience in a manufacturing supervisory position.\nKnowledge of manufacturing management disciplines such as production and inventory control, and standard cost systems.\nStrong IT skills, including MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)\nStrong oral and written communication skills, capable of communicating at all levels.\nStrong analytical skills.\nStrong influencing, interpersonal, and leadership skills.\nAbility to develop and motivate a high-involvement team.\n\nDesirable Characteristics:\n\nKnowledge of production/manufacturing operations.\nKnowledge and application of Six Sigma principles.\nPrior experience with regulatory agencies and knowledge of requirements.\nKnowledge of aerospace products, processes, customer requirements, and budgeting/financial processes.\n\nBenefits:\n\nPension contribution up to 10%.\nLife cover.\nMedical cover.\nCycle to work scheme.\nOn-site gym for a minimal monthly fee.\nRestaurant and vending services.\nEmployee Assistance Programme.\n26 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.\nEligibility for a company bonus up to 5%.\nIf you have the experience and expertise to excel as a Shop Floor Manager, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's innovative and dynamic team in the aerospace sector