Waxroom & Investment Area Team Leader

Position reports to: Jack Madden, Production Manager

Job purpose: As a Waxroom & Investment Area Team Leader you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of team members employed to work on production, to ensure operations run seamlessly.

To support and enable the professional and profitable running of the company by:

• Using specified production techniques that produce required production targets, quality and maintains its ISO accreditation. To meet targeted KPI’s for your area of responsibility.
• Accurately record and keep recorded data to enable further analysis and operational compliance. This can include work instructions, route cards information, labour bookings, stock locations, non-conformance reports, scrap and rework information. All EFACS (ERP system) information needs to be maintained and accurate for your area of responsibility.

• Responsibility for the Environmental, Health and Safety of yourself and your colleagues at all times.
• Ability to carry out comprehensive training and development for all staff within the Waxroom and Investment Area.
• Ensuring that the department is run efficiently and effectively to its full potential and targeted KPI’s are achieved.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with colleagues and senior members of staff at all times.
• Maintain and exceed expected targets in 5’s and housekeeping within the Waxroom and Investment Area.
• Develop and continuously improve methods of operation within your area. This means applying lean and problem-solving techniques with your team and support staff to ensure effective engineering solutions are implemented.
• Maintain high levels of product and operational quality in the area under your responsibility
• Ensure that timely maintenance is carried out on tools and machinery within the area.
• Attend and support new product introduction and product close out meeting.
• Deputise for your manager where your skills and experience allow.

Environmental, Health and Safety –

• Ensure safety of staff in your area and compliance with all relevant Company information.
• Ensuring all staff members are using the correct PPE for the task in hand and it is maintained and stored correctly.
• Monitor and record daily activities from a H&S perspective to ensure safe practices are followed. Action and report any issues to your manager.
• Report audit findings and any employee concerns to the Environmental, Health & Safety meeting.
• Investigate and action any near misses and accidents. Always ensure the area is safe, containment system in place and all staff have been briefed. For major incidents liaise with your manager.
• Undertake fire marshal responsibilities for your area.

Training and Development –

• Develop & Maintain training plans for all members of staff.
• Carry out 6 monthly review meetings to identify training needs. This may change according to need.
• Identify appropriate courses and other training for members of staff. This information then needs to be shared with your line manager and HR to allow this to be organised.
• Train staff with work instructions and health and safety procedures
• Maintain good levels of morale and discipline. This would mainly cover basic discipline issues, such as lateness and performance issues on an informal basis. Anything more serious would be reported to, and dealt with at a more senior level of staff.

Planning of Work –

• Plan and effectively manage resources to closely match the master production plan
• Provide weekly manning plan to ensure production targets are met.
• Daily/hourly allocate labour to achieve plan.
• Develop recovery plans and report any issues to your manager
• Identify backlogs and negotiate resource needs with the fellow Team Leaders
• Maintain high levels of productivity
• Ensure all operations are booked correctly on to EFACS and the number of routings are correct for your area.
• Monitor and report daily/weekly/monthly production performance vs plan, including output, labour, scrap/rework and key KPIs.
• Maintain accurate operation times and labour bookings in EFACS for all activities within your area (e.g., injection, inspection, assembly), to support planning and performance analysis.

Communication –

• Communicate effectively and professionally with colleagues at all times
• Attend and contribute appropriately to formal and informal team meetings
• Work as an effective member of the team as well as Team Leader of your area
• As and when required work with other Team Leaders to help develop the company

Housekeeping –

• Carry out weekly/monthly audits to ensure that standards are maintained and improved
• Maintain a clean, safe working environment in accordance with the 5S requirements

Problem Solving/Continuous Improvement -

• Continually challenge existing methods and techniques in a controlled way to achieve continuous improvement efficiencies

Quality –

• To carry out process checks in accordance with the quality control requirements in the departments
• Monitor, record and report inspection and scrap data to the quality department and all supporting EFACS information is correct.
• Ensure that work instructions are followed and maintained at a high level
• Set up, demonstrate and inspect first-off waxes / first-off checks to confirm tooling, machine settings and operator method are correct before full production.

Maintenance -

• Effectively manage daily checks of plant and equipment in the Waxroom and Investment Area
• Report any faults with tools or machines on the Maintenance database and where necessary isolate/lock out if deemed dangerous
• Ensure tooling is checked pre- and post-operation and is fit for use; remove from service and escalate if defects are found.

Additional requirements

You will be required to carry out additional tasks within the company as and when required, following suitable training where necessary.

From the wax injection/3d printing, to moulds being unloaded from the robot.

• Experience of supervising or leading a team within a manufacturing or production function and/or a level 2/3 team leader qualification.
• Good communication skills at all levels
• Strong organisational skills

• Experience of working in an Investment casting/Foundry is preferred but not essential
• Experience in H&S management and application of knowledge in carrying out risk assessments and COSHH Reviews would be beneficial.

To apply please send your CV to ts@deangroup-int.co.uk