Shop Floor Manager - Aerospace Manufacturing

Matchtech
Southampton
3 days ago
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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.Key Responsibilities:EHS: Promote a safe workplace environment, ensuring compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety policies, procedures, and regulations.Clocking and Booking: Ensure accurate and timely recordings of time and attendance, as well as job costings.Housekeeping: Maintain clean and organised workstations, with all tools and equipment stored correctly.Quality: Uphold all quality standards, processes, and procedures, ensuring work is completed with care and minimal wastage.Cost Management: Support cost reduction and management initiatives by reducing unnecessary expenditure.Knowledge & Skills: Keep knowledge and training up to date, ensuring compliance with role specifications and standards.Team Working: Actively participate in team meetings, share knowledge, coach and mentor trainees, and be flexible in learning other areas.Perform any other reasonable duties that fall within the level of the role.Specific Role Responsibilities:Managing the Team: Lead and develop the team, ensuring compliance with internal safety and quality guidelines, and minimise staff absence and attrition.Managing Production Activities: Plan and control production activities to meet operational objectives, maximising OTS and OTF, and driving efficiency.Developing Preventative Activities: Enforce preventive measures to reduce occupational and environmental risks.Communication: Facilitate effective communication within the team, conveying operational objectives and action plans, and serve as the point of reference for day-to-day topics.Ensuring Team Qualifications: Ensure team members have required qualifications and training.Complying with Policies and Procedures: Enforce established procedures, policies, and systems, promoting improvements as needed.Identifying Risk: Identify and mitigate potential risks affecting people, products, or equipment and escalate as necessary.Analysing Indicators: Analyse production, maintenance, and quality indicators, prioritise improvement plans, and lead implementation teams.Energising Improvements: Propose and lead process, system, and organisation improvements.Energising Meetings: Lead regular interdepartmental meetings to achieve maximum efficiency.Job Requirements:Demonstrable experience in a manufacturing supervisory position.Knowledge of manufacturing management disciplines such as production and inventory control, and standard cost systems.Strong IT skills, including MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)Strong oral and written communication skills, capable of communicating at all levels.Strong analytical skills.Strong influencing, interpersonal, and leadership skills.Ability to develop and motivate a high-involvement team.Desirable Characteristics:Knowledge of production/manufacturing operations.Knowledge and application of Six Sigma principles.Prior experience with regulatory agencies and knowledge of requirements.Knowledge of aerospace products, processes, customer requirements, and budgeting/financial processes.Benefits:Pension contribution up to 10%.Life cover.Medical cover.Cycle to work scheme.On-site gym for a minimal monthly fee.Restaurant and vending services.Employee Assistance Programme.26 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.Eligibility for a company bonus up to 5%.If 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

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