Total 2 Manager level Manufacturing / Production job vacancies in Dorchester, Dorset

Production Engineering Manager

Job Location: Bournemouth, Dorset

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Excellent starting salary

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 7.30am to 4pm & Friday 7.30am – 12.30pm

Benefits: 25 days holiday + Bank holidays; enhanced company pension; life and health insurance; employee assistance program; professional development / training, modern working environment.

A global manufacturer in Bournemouth who design & manufacture a catalogue of Electro-Mechanical applications worldwide are looking to recruit a Production Engineering Manager to lead the Production Engineering team.

As the Production Engineering Manager, you will be leading a team of 8 to undertake new product development / introduction (NPD / NPI), design for manufacture and responsible for all current product lines.

Your role will see you leading and developing the team, optimising processes, providing production support, and new product introduction.

Some of your duties will include:

• Lead with a passion for operational excellence and instil this within the culture of the team.
• Be skilled in team management, empowering others and delegating.
• Demonstrate commitment to Continuous Professional Development and maximising team performance
• Support the timely and consistent delivery of all production demand.
• Respond to stoppages and quality issues.
• Plan, organise and manage resources and parts, to maintain all equipment maintenance schedules required to operate effectively to meet schedule requirements and minimise downtime.
• Utilise lean manufacturing principles to streamline production processes, eliminate waste, and improve overall efficiency.
• Implement changes to enhance productivity, reduce costs, and ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Working with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth transition of new products from design to production.
• Contribute to the design process ensuring design for manufacture is embedded throughout.
• Develop manufacturing plans, process documentation, and training materials for NPI projects.
• Lead the transfer of product lines to alternative manufacturing facilities.
• Working across the teams to ensure transfers are delivered on-time, within budget and with risks identified and appropriately mitigated.

We also ask that you have the following key capabilities / knowledge:

• Production Engineering experience within an Electro-Mechanical industry
• Strong people management experience
• Confident, energetic with the ability to drive the business forward
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with various internal departments, customers, 3rd party manufacturers to achieve success
• Good IT skills with experience of Microsoft packages
• LEAN manufacturing experience
• Any formal Engineering or Technical qualifications would be beneficial.

For more information about this brilliant opportunity, please apply with a full CV by email to jobs@rrm.uk.com or call our Recruitment Team on 01202 686000.

Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so if you do not hear from us within 3
days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.

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Frontline Recruitment Weymouth are looking for 2 x Production Line Leaders for our client in Dorchester in their Packing Department.

You will be responsible for a specific line or area and management of the teams to maintain normal production running conditions using logical reasoning and decision making to operate and adjust production equipment as per the company’s standard operating procedures (SOP’s), to achieve product that is within internal and external specifications and within critical control points (CCP’s).

Key Responsibilities:

1. Able to undertake and support any area of production as required using knowledge and skills of operating processes, equipment, and quality systems.

2. Support team members to improve job knowledge and pass on information between shifts and departments as required and raise performance issues with team members to the Supervisor.

3. Taking samples from the process and using equipment and/or systems to monitor and record results, on relevant systems to meet the company’s Audit Compliance and Manufacturing Monitoring Systems

4. Monitor and plan production equipment availability to maintain normal running conditions. Adjusting settings to meet specifications. If further support is required, refer technical issues to Technical Operative and/or Supervisor for resolution.

5. Fully accountable for KPI delivery and improvements in quality and performance, and service levels

6. Work within all company policies and procedures, including Health & Safety and Food Safety Standards and ensuring the team as a whole are also following the set standards. Raising quality and safety near-miss incidents.

7. Identifying and suggesting ideas for continuous improvement and participating in problem solving and improvement activities

8. To carry out any other work or task determined to be within your level of competence, to meet the needs of the business.

9. Working within all company policies and procedures, including Health and Safety, Food Safety, Authenticity, Legality and Quality Standards.

The successful applicants will have the following:

Essential

· 4 GCSEs at Grade 4/5 of which English Language, English Literature and Mathematics are required.

· Competent in the use of computers.

· Knowledge and experience gained in operating within a food manufacturing environment.

· Forklift Certificate (for relevant areas).

· Food Hygiene – Level 2 and 3.

· Manual Handling.

Desirable

· People Management Training.

· Able to work in a role that has physical demands.

· Competent in using Microsoft software packages.

· Awareness of LEAN principles.

Skills:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, maintains constructive relationships with team members across departments, proficient in the use of all working processes and equipment for the area /department, methodical and good attention to detail, analyses and resolves issues, knowing when to refer to a senior for advice, make decisions using available resources and sound judgement, calm, analytical, measured approach with good team and computer skills.

Ethics:

INTEGRITY:

Sets example to others through positive behaviors and good engagement, open, honest, and calm – even under pressure, respect diversity and be open minded, caring and empathetic towards others, trustworthy and reliable with good moral standards – doing the right thing, even when no-one is looking.

RESPONSIBILITY:

Embrace change with an open mind, adaptable & polite, proud to respect our environment, our resources and our community, apply a quality & safety mindset at all times and challenge others who don’t, take personal ownership of issues, ambition to exceed personal and team goals, driver of your own self-development.

Contractual Hours – 42.5hrs per week (Monday to Friday) from January to June 2024 and 45hrs per week (Monday to Friday) from July to December 2024.

Holiday entitlement – 29 days per annum (including Public & Bank Holidays in England & Wales) rising to 30 days after 5 years continuous service as at 1st April and 31 days after 10 years continuous service as at 1st April.

Pension – 5% Employee/5% Employer contribution

Life Assurance – 2 x annual salary (after completion of 3 months service)

Bike to Work Scheme – Capped

Employees can purchase company products at a discounted price

On site parking.