Production Team Lead

PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD
BASED LIVINGSTON – SALARY EXCELLENT TO £42,000 PLUS BENS

Based in Livingston, ESS Recruit’s client comprises of a group of European companies engaged in the design, development, manufacture and distribution of analytical systems, life science equipment and laboratory instruments with operations dating a number of years.  They design, develop, supply and support Gas Chromatography (GC) and Mass Spectrometry (MS) product lines for a range of markets including forensics, food quality, environmental, pharma and life sciences.  The company maintains a global infrastructure to support sales around the world.  Reporting to the Operations Manager in The Netherlands, in this role you will have a varied workload.  Manufacturing is in both The Netherlands and Livingston and the R&D department is based in Livingston.
  
Reporting to the Operations Manager, this Production Team Lead role is a key part of their ambitious plans for UK production and manufacturing growth.  You will be responsible for the day to day running of their brand new high performance MS production facility in Livingston.
  
Responsibilities:

• Managing the cleanroom production facility to ensure the complex electro-mechanical products are produced on time to a pre-determined production schedule, made to specification and correct configuration, fully documented and traceable within the internal ERP system
• Day to Day management of a small production team (2-5) including workload planning against preprepared production schedules.
• Management of the production facility to ensure that all equipment remains operational and that activities are conducted within the existing HS&E risk measures.
• Managing the warehousing within the production facility ensuring deliveries and shipments are correctly entered in the ERP system (EPICOR)
• Conducting and documenting goods in inspections of mechanical and electrical components and sub-assemblies against preprepared inspection criteria.
• Ensuring product quality through monitoring, sign off and recording of test results produced by the production team.
• Lead troubleshooting activities on modules or units that have failed quality control inspections/tests through Conducting root cause analysis activities
• Manage any changes to product definition (e.g. BoM alterations, ECO issues etc)
• Assist the procurement team with management of suppliers to ensure delivery of parts/subassemblies to cost, delivery schedule and specification.  

You should ideally have a recognised engineering qualification (HNC /HND or equivalent) in either electrical or mechanical disciplines or significant relevant experience in a similar role is also fine.   Experience of working in ISO 9001 certified electro-mechanical production facilities and knowledge of reading and interpreting technical specifications or drawings is also needed as is experience of working in an ISO 9001 certified manufacturing environment and ideally of working in cleanroom and ESD safe environments and the associated good working practices an advantage.  It would also be great if you have a sound working knowledge of Office 365, Outlook, Word, Excel and TEAMS and of ERP systems (ideally experienced in the use of EPICOR).  Lastly knowledge of Analytical Equipment for Organic Chemistry/Life Sciences is an advantage.
  
A highly competitive salary and benefits / bonus package tailored to your experience is on offer for the right candidate.  Hours of work 37.5 hours per week. The Company operates a flexible working week.  The chance to be part of something truly unique makes this too good to refuse.  Please send your CV to our recruitment partner Katie Hydes at ESS Recruit.