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Form of workOnsite in Leamington Spa
Candidates require a proven background working in a machine shop with extensive knowledge of tooling, CNC machine tools including multi-tasking, 5-axis, universal-grinding, gear grinding and shaping.
Key accountabilities:
- Working within the Continuous Improvement team you will ensure that all production orders are ‘machine ready’ to ensure schedule adherence.
- Proactively work alongside Manufacturing, Operations, Quality functions and suppliers to maintain and enhance processes.
- Actively contribute to annual cost save, emissions reduction and shop floor recovery targets.
- Own, complete, report out and handover to operations any CI projects assigned to you.
- Maintain an active shop-floor presence promoting and encouraging lean principles.
- Reporting back and reacting to manufacturing issues from production and ad hoc meetings.
- Work alongside operations and manufacturing to ensure smooth NPI transition to production.
- Working alongside all other functions in DFM and PFMEA for new projects.
- Actively assist all CI team members in closing projects on time.
- Identify potential improvement activities.
- Support Operations with day to day issue resolution.
- Mentor and engage with operators to encourage an improvement culture.
- Maintain a Teamwork approach and actively share knowledge with peers.
- Liaise with Quality Engineers to ensure improvements to our Total Cost of Quality, On Time in Full, delivery and other KPIs.
- Act on key manufacturing performance metrics
- Required Experience
- Experience of machining a wide range of precision components with complex routings and multiple operations.
- Lean manufacturing skills, 8D, 5 Why and 6 sigma knowledge.
Desirable Experience - Experience of working in a precision, small batch, low volume production environment (Automotive / Aerospace / Defence or similar industry).
- Gear form manufacturing knowledge/experience.
- Heat Treatment knowledge/experience.
- CAD/CAM programming experience.
- 3D modelling experience.
- Multi spindle machining experience/knowledge.
