Production Manager

ChilliFrog Ltd


Date: 10 hours ago
City: Portsmouth
Contract type: Full time

Production Manager / Lead Production Engineer (strain gauging experience critical) sought by exciting market leading electronics & analytics systems business, focused on designing, building, installing and operating measurement systems for the marine sector.


Contract type: Permanent

Salary : Negotiable but as a guide £35K-£47K (depending on competency) basic plus excellent staff benefits package


Location – Havant / Portsmouth, Hampshire area


Start date - asap

Working conditions: Normal office and light workshop environment


THE ROLE & OPPORTUNITY

As a result of expansion, my client has an exciting new vacancy for a Production Manager for their R&D function who MUST have strong experience with strain gauging.

Reporting directly to the Head of Operations, duties will include:

  • Run and oversee the day-to-day operation of our load cell production facility
  • Manage the team building, calibrating, and testing load sensors
  • Own production schedules, output targets, and quality standards
  • Work with operations to optimise parts forecast


CANDIDATE PROFILE:

The ideal applicant will have;

  • Firm knowledge of strain gauging & tenure within the industry
  • Analog electronics
  • Material impacts on strain gauge/adhesive choice
  • Surface preparations
  • Strain gauge suppliers
  • Strong background in mechanical and electronic assembly, ideally with sensor style products
  • Experience in leading a production team or be ready to step-up to lead a team – hands-on manager, not just desk-based
  • 2-3 people in the team
  • Has worked with calibration procedures and is comfortable with test equipment
  • Can interpret engineering drawings
  • Ideally, from a low-to-medium volume, high-precision production environment
  • Understands capacity management
  • Comfortable with small batch / precision manufacturing, not just mass production
  • Experience with digital twin-like systems, production data logging and quality control
  • Experience with ISO9001
  • Has worked with and applied of lean, six-sigma, kaizen methodologies


Character;

  • Calm, practical, and organised
  • Leads by example — gets hands dirty when needed
  • Can train up onboardings
  • Can balance speed vs. care — knows when to slow down and when to push
  • Wants to take ownership of a growing facility and help shape it long-term


WHAT'S ON OFFER;

• A highly competitive financial rewards package, including benefits package

  • The chance to join a highly established proven market leader who continually invest in their solutions to stay ahead of the competition

• A comprehensive learning and development program and genuine career prospects

• An excellent hard working but fun close “family” oriented collaborative working environment



If you are a good match then please send a CV immediately to learn more about this excellent, rare and diverse permanent career opportunity!


Keywords: Production Manager, strain guaging, Supervisor, Lead, Leader, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, Engineering, Electro-Mechanical, aerospace, electronics, defence


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