Foreperson - Moulding Department

**Position**:Production Foreperson

**Department**:Moulding

**Reporting**:Site Supervisor/Manager

**Start Date in Position**:
**Salary: £11.27 per hour**

**The Job Holder Covers For (holiday etc)**:
**Job Purpose **:Responsible for overseeing the Company’s production Operations, ensuring targets are met within the specified timeframes. Whilst also maintaining excellent levels of quality. Supporting the demand of production in a busy and fast paced production environment.

**1.** **Overall Job Purpose**:
**1.1** **Main Objectives/Responsibilities**
- Take responsibility for a team of workers, whilst conducting relevant direct duties.
- Ensure the smooth daily running of the site.
- Responsible for the equipment in its entirety within the department and associated processes.
- Work to manufacturing programme, monitoring productivity and ensuring targets are met.
- Provide support in allocation of labour in order to meet manufacturing programme.
- Monitor and maintain all quality controls and daily workflow.
- Enforce and verify standard operating procedures (SOP’s) are being followed.
- Oversees accurate records of daily activities are maintained.
- Performs inventory control and order selecting.
- Collaborates with the Site Supervisor/Manager to ensure timely resolutions of issues resulting from plan deviations.
- Ensures that quality of work meet quality standards and raises inconsistencies to the Site Supervisor/Manager.
- Assists the team as needed without compromising primary responsibilities.
- Conducts investigations.
- Ensure that H & S requirements are met.
- Ensure all work areas are cleaned and maintained to Company standard.

**1.2** **Additional Tasks/Responsibilities**:

- Any other reasonable tasks as requested by the Company

**2.** **Required qualifications**:

- **Qualifications**:_
- Demonstrable IT Skills.
- Team Leading Qualifications/Experience.
- Knowledge of MRP systems.
- Educated to a high standard in English and Mathematics.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Attention to detail.

**3.** **Job Experience/Additional Skills**:

- **Required**:_
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and meet set KPI’s/targets
- Work experience within a manufacturing organisation in the role of Foreperson/Team Leader.
- Positive attitude to work.
- Be open to flexible working patterns.
- Ability to read and understand technical drawings.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- **Advantages**:_
- Knowledge of paint coatings and finishing

**4.** **Business/Social Skills**:

- Strive continuously for a harmonious flow of work
- Constantly looks to improve the department, gathers information, challenges assumptions and questions the status quo.
- Prepared to take the necessary action to achieve objectives.
- Identifies opportunities and develops new ideas.
- Responds to requests and situations.
- Keeps Managers informed and is dependable.
- Always prepared to state opinions and offer knowledge.
- Willing to learn. Accepts change and modifies approach and methods to suit the circumstances.
- Does not pre-judge or react. Always listens and considers differing views.
- Determined to perform well. Approaches all work with drive and enthusiasm. Competes against targets, despite obstacles or setbacks and see things through to completion.
- Develops fresh ideas.

**5.** **Training (required after recruitment if not already obtained)**
- Appraisal Training
- Fork Lift Truck Training
- Reach Truck Training
- Investigation Training
- Absence Management Training
- Return to Work Training
- Fire Evacuation Training
- Level 3 Team Leading

**6.** **Personal Protective Equipment (required to be worn for the role)**
- Safety Footwear
- Hi Vis
- Safety Goggles (if required)
- Bump Cap (If required)
- Protective overalls (if required)
- Cut resistant gloves (if required)
- Kevlar Sleeve (if required)

**Salary**: £11.27 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- Supervising: 2 years (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day shift (preferred)

Work Location: In person