Toolroom Supervisor

Global Recruitment & HR Specialists across the Plastics, Packaging, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Energy, and Recycling sectors since 1975 are seeking an experienced Toolroom Supervisor to manage their recently updated facility.

• Provide hands-on leadership to support the management of the toolroom and its staff by working with planning and production to prioritize activities in line with business requirements.
• Responsible for the repair, maintenance, and improvement of all tooling in line with production and customer requirements.
• Implement a PPM tooling schedule and a pre-production tooling service to limit downtime.
• Attend tooling-related breakdowns and quality concerns at the machine to reduce the impact on productivity.
• Log all repairs to create a historical database for reference purposes in the event of repeat breakdowns.
• Provide support with training and mentor others as and when required.
• Work mostly independently with minimal supervision.
• Work closely with other departments.
• Liaise with suppliers for the efficient and timely repair of breakdowns.
• Keep on top of spares.
• Support new product introduction activities by liaising with tool manufacturers and the local plant team, including lessons learned from previous concerns.

• A Levels, ONC, City & Guilds level 3, BTEC National Diploma Level 3, IVQ Technician Diploma, NVQ level 3.
• Ability to read tool drawings.
• Experience working with CNC, Lathe, Grinders, Milling machines, and Spark eroders.
• Professional accreditation with an industry-related body would be advantageous.
• Experience of leading and developing people.
• PC skills (Excel, Word, CAD, Solidworks or equivalent).
• Experience of packages such as SAP, MATTEC (desirable).
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing techniques such as 5S, TPM.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation – IOSH (desirable).
• Understanding of design and production costs to include waste, downtime, scrap, and re-work.

For reasons of better legibility, the simultaneous use of the language forms male, female, and diverse (f/m/d) is avoided. All personal designations apply equally to all genders.

For EU roles, candidates must be eligible to work and live in the European Union. Proof of eligibility will be required with your application.