Graduate Production Engineer

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 Graduate 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