Process Engineering Team Leader

Reporting to the Core Operations Manager, the Process Engineering Team Leader is responsible for coordinating activities within the Process Engineering team and providing front-line hands-on’ engineering support to the Operations Department. In addition, the Process Engineering Team Leader has day-to-day responsibility for OXTS production and test processes, including calibration, and for supporting the introduction of new products into Production. Team Leadership and Coordination Plan and track work through the Process Engineering Team, prioritising and assigning tasks to appropriate team members to ensure work is completed in a timely manner, while keeping internal stakeholders and tracking systems up to date. Define, scope and coordinate resource for projects and improvement activity within the Process Engineering Team. Provide day-to-day leadership across the Process Engineering Team, ensuring responsibilities are allocated appropriately to experience, capability and development needs. Provide first-line people leadership through regular 1:1s, weekly team meetings, objective setting, development discussions, coaching, mentoring and day-to-day support. Provide hands-on technical leadership and support to Operations, leading or supporting complex technical investigations, helping remove technical blockers and ensuring production, build and test issues are progressed to resolution. Ensure clear ownership is in place across key production and test processes, including calibration, with responsibilities distributed appropriately across the Process Engineering Team. Maintain the Process Engineering roadmap and provide regular visibility of project status, priorities, risks and actions to relevant stakeholders. Support the management of the Process Engineering budget, including project spend, equipment maintenance, external services and other planned costs, providing input to the Core Operations Manager as required. Process Engineering Develop and improve test equipment capability, capacity, efficiency, and reliability in line with business growth requirements, product quantities and mix. Own first time pass yield (FTPY) for existing products and newly introduced products e.g. analyses and reports most common build/test failures, and works with Process Engineering, Engineering, Quality, Production, and Purchasing to devise and implement solutions to resolve issues. Responsible for Turnbacks process whereby first-time build, test, and process failures are logged by Operations team members and allocated to appropriate team members for resolution. Support technical investigations into quarantined components, working with Quality and Engineering to define and carry out appropriate testing and support agreed corrective actions, rework, supplier return or scrappage Lead technical investigations into mechanical and electronic supplier quality issues involving Quality, Engineering, Production, and Purchasing departments as appropriate. …