Production Lead

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:

In this role you will be responsible for managing and supporting a team of assemblers and technicians to assemble and test monitoring equipment. 

The main duties are the role are as follows:-

• 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 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. Knowledge,

• 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