Toolroom Supervisor

GLOBAL RECRUITMENT & HR SPECIALISTS ACROSS THE PLASTICS, PACKAGING, PETROCHEMICALS, CHEMICALS, ENERGY AND RECYCLING SECTORS SINCE 1975

Toolroom Supervisor
Based in Nottinghamshire

Job ref: JH/62953

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Client Overview:

Listgrove has been retained by a UK manufacturer of plastic moulded products for the home and garden. Offering injection, blow and rotational moulding enables them to meet clients needs and be a key supplier for their global customer base.

They are now looking to recruit and experienced Toolroom Supervisor to manage their recently updated facility – the ideal candidate will possess good practical knowledge and experience of working and leading a tool room in a fast moving, high volume, moulding plant.

Responsibilities:

· Provide a “hands on” leadership resource to support the management of the tool room and its staff by working with planning and production to prioritise activities in line with business requirements.
· Responsible for the repair, maintenance and improvement to all tooling in line with production and customer requirements.
· Look to implement a PPM tooling schedule and a pre-production tooling service in order 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 learnt from previous concerns

Candidate Profile:

· 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

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

Why select Listgrove?
· Five Decades of Market Intelligence
· Unrivalled Industry Networks
· Recognised International brand
· HR Qualified Professionals

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