Production Engineer

Newcastle upon Tyne
4 days ago
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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 permanent 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

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