Head of Fabrication

Salary: £66,000 – £78,000 per year

As Head of Fabrications, you will be responsible for driving the Fabrications, Machine shop and tool room teams ensuring products are efficiently produced, to specification, meeting delivery objectives, core values, business plan and Health and Safety requirements whilst reducing manufacturing costs.

Job Description:

• Responsible for the manufacturing of all Fabricated, made parts, painting and tooling, ensuring teams are correctly resourced and operate to a robust, realistic production plan which is being achieved.
• Champion a Lean Culture and develop a Lean continuous improvement strategy for Fabrications, ensuring Production layout, equipment and tact time for optimum performance and best practice.
• Develop KPIs for all teams, regularly monitor and review productivity with team leaders and report on deviations from the target.
• Drive productivity improvements with team leaders, ensure daily production targets are up to date (PCBS), analyse the information to identify problems, resolve and implement improvements.
• Ensure team leaders are maintaining an accurate stock of materials in their areas and materials are being transacted correctly in line with company processes and procedures by production staff.
• Accountable for multiskilling, ensure it is up to date to meet the needs of the business, staff are multiskilled to work in other production areas and records of competence and training are kept up to date.
• Ensure all manufactured products meet the manufacturing specification, work with the Quality team to implement corrective actions and reduce non-conformities.
• Champion safety in the workplace, ensure all staff work in a safe working environment and meet all company and legal requirements.
• Introduce and Oversee a Total Productive Maintenance Process (TPM). Ensure preventative maintenance is performed to schedule, checklists are visible on all machines, breakdown analysis is performed to identify route cause and maintenance is improved to stop the re-occurrence of the breakdown.
• Ensure targets for OEE are in place and are being met and develop plans with team leaders to improve performance.
• Ensure there is a process to measure process capability CP / CPK, process rejects are analysed to identify process improvements and improvements implemented.
• Ensure equipment change-over targets are monitored and met. Introduce and oversee SMED (Single Minutes Exchange of Dies) to drive the reduction of equipment setup times.
• Accountable for the correct disposal of all process waste, oil, chemicals etc. to ensure it is disposed of responsible meeting all current legislation.
• Mentor and coach Production staff to develop potential, improve knowledge job, improve problem-solving, decision making and mange a program of succession planning.
• Ensure attendance, holiday and absence is managed correctly, problems are identified, actions are taken if required, Production staff has back-to-work interviews identifying the reason for the absence, timesheets are completed correctly, and information is sent to the Finance Team and agencies.
• Conduct disciplinary meetings in accordance with company policy.
• Any other additional tasks that are appropriate to the role.

Education / Qualifications / Experience:

The following qualifications and experience are essential:

• Current experience working in a manufacturing leadership role within a manufacturing company using complex metal forming equipment with more than 50 people.
• Experience working in a business with £15m turnover.
• Experience in setting and meeting SMART Production targets.
• Has mentored other leadership staff driving performance improvement
• Has been an agent for change, using Data to deliver significant changes in a manufacturing organisation.
• Has implemented or had responsibility for TPM, Process capability analysis (CPK), SMED, OEE Processes
• Black belt in Lean Six Sigma with experience in using a DMAIC approach and Lean tools to get results
• Experience in providing reports to Senior Management
• Background in engineering or production Engineering
• HNC or equivalent in Manufacturing Management
• IOSH Certified, Managing Safely
• 3 -5 Years’ experience as a Manufacturing Manager in complex metal forming business
• Project Management experience in introducing new equipment