Graduate Production Engineer

Rewards and Benefits on Offer;

• Option to work a 4 or 5 day week
  
  
• Competitive pension contribution
  
  
• Dayshift hours
  
  
• Opportunity to gain experience across all aspects of the business to develop your skills
  
  
• Natural progression into the engineering side of the business within 12-18 months
  
  
• Working with various prestigious blue-chip customers on a daily basis
  
  Working Hours:
  
  
• 39 hours, Mon – Thurs
  
  
• 7am – 5:15pm
  
  MTrec’s New Opportunity;
  
  MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious manufacturing client based just outside Newcastle, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a Graduate Production Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a rapidly growing, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and fantastic opportunities to progress your career.
  
  If you have a background in production or process engineering, ideally with some additional experience in planning/control, please apply now for an immediate response.
  
  The Job You’ll Do;
  
  
• Planning, organising and controlling activities of production through the Production Supervisors.
  
  
• Responsible for production plan preparation based on forecasts, stock positions and orders.
  
  
• Ensures compliance with specification, company policies and procedures, rules and regulations including welfare, H&S, quality (ISO 9001) and environment (ISO 1400)1.
  
  
• Resource management within the production area including reporting on performance and attendance of the resource to the General Manager.
  
  
• Maintaining profitable and efficient throughput of production items in accordance with specifications (including packaging and transport).
  
  
• Liaising with the quality department, the General Manager and Project and Tooling Manager (as necessary).
  
  
• Any additional duties that the General Manager deems appropriate to the job role and to assist the business.
  
  
• Assisting the General Manager with forecasting and production planning discussing any present or future business volume, including adjustments of shipping commitments due to production constraints.
  
  
• Reviewing and approving monthly production schedule for the month execution of production plan.
  
  
• Providing accurate daily reports on produced items, rejects and scrap.
  
  
• Liaising with the Procurement and Production Co-ordinator to ensure that records are accurate and up to date daily.
  
  
• Identifying manpower forecasts, then allocating workload per employee with Supervisors to satisfy customer needs and to meet delivery schedules.
  
  
• Reacting to poor performance and lack of productivity either through human resource or machinery / equipment.
  
  
• Implementing and monitoring the preventive maintenance plan for equipment in line with production levels and forecasting.
  
  
• Reviewing and assisting in any disciplinary action, leave application, overtime work, employee and Supervisor reporting, ISO documents and other matters related to employee's compensation.
  
  About You;
  
  
• Mechanical Engineering qualifications/background would be highly desirable (Apprenticeship, NVQ, HNC, HND, Degree).
  
  
• Experience within a Production planning, control, process or engineering role
  
  
• Ability to use Microsoft Office package (Outlook, Word and Excel).
  
  
• Confident and professional being the 1st point of contact for customers.
  
  
• Good organisational and communication skills at all levels.
  
  
• Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation, adapting quickly to change where necessary.
  
  
• Absolute attention to detail