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

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.

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

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