Lead Production Engineer

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:

• 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 of 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.
• 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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