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 Trainee Production Engineer to join their team. You will be joining a rapidly growing, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and fantastic opportunities for training and to progress your career.
If you have a background in manufacturing/engineering, please apply now for an immediate response.
The Job You’ll Do;
* Planning, organising and controlling activities of production.
* 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;
* Engineering qualifications/background would be highly desirable (Apprenticeship, NVQ, HNC, HND, Degree etc.)
* Experience within a planning, control, process or engineering role would be desireable
* Ability to use Microsoft Office package (Outlook, Word and Excel).
* Confident and professional being the first 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.
* Attention to detail