Mpeople recruitment have a fantastic opportunity for a Lead Engineer to join a well-established and growing Engineering business based in Oldham. A Progressive company, highly ethical, ongoing staff training, death in service, yearly staff bonus, Christmas shutdown, your birthday off, excellent work to life balance with supportive colleagues.  Salary £28,000 - £30,000 plus O/T and bonuses, Hours Monday to Thursday 8am – 5pm, Friday 8.00 am – 2.00pm.

Lead Engineer Duties:

• Planning and monitoring work within the workshop, supervising staff, ensure all required dates are met.
• Undertake Supervision of manufacturing tasks and progress chase to ensure weekly/monthly production targets are met.
• Project lead planning and understand bespoke/ modification requirements, BOM, schedule, parts List, reading drawings, conversion of metric and imperial figures and implement effectively through entire process.
• Supervising the manufacturing and assembly jobs to OTIF standards.
• Reports on workloads, participating in project reviews and giving advice to Managers.
• Ensure that the workshop maximises its capacity to meet monthly KPIS on value/unit numbers completed, to ensure efficiencies and return on investment.
• Required offsite field service visits on occasion.
• Maintaining material, COSHH, H & S, Test, Method records for all projects completed in the workshop.
• Mentoring of workshop personnel who are undertaking the ILM scheme.
• Quality Control-QC of all products that leaves the workshop.
• Responsible for the quality of the work carried out by the workshop and perform incoming and outgoing inspections on all parts, modifications, equipment, and assemblies.
• Responsible for maintaining safe work practices, keeping COSHH information up to date and ensuring staff is conversant and compliant.

Lead Engineer Requirements:

• Multi skilled in both electrical and mechanical disciplines with relevant experience in automation or complex MHE.
• Required must hold current driving licence as occasional work out in the field required.
• Capable of diagnostic, modifications work on unfamiliar equipment with limited technical reference documents and work to high quality standards.
• Solid foundational knowledge of PLC based controls systems.
• Understand bespoke/ modification requirements, BOM, schedule, parts List, reading drawings, conversion of metric and imperial figures.
• Knowledge of Statutory Compliance requirements.
• Must have experience in managing teams and create a positive working environment.
• Have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Possess the ability to manage detail, establish root cause and be able to extract and demonstrate effective problem-solving and analytical capability.

Lead Engineer Benefits:

• 20 days holidays plus bank holiday and your birthday off, Christmas Shut down.
• Yearly staff bonus
• Onsite Parking.
• Death in Service.
• Pension 3%/5%.