Engineering & Production Jobs In Hampshire

Key duties:

1. Co-ordinate and prioritise the products through the RST area in conjunction with other RST and production shop floor personnel.
2. Load, un-load and carry out test procedures, where required, on all products that go through RST.
3. Complete all test history information on relevant paperwork as determined by the procedure used.
4. Complete relevant documentation in the event of unit failure.
5. Carry out assembly tasks such as conformal coating, basic rework, IC programming and the like during periods where the main objective allows.
6. Ensure site security by locking up during evening and night shift.

Essential Experience:

• Able to follow written procedures to test a product in accordance with the requirements of the RST environment.
• Sound knowledge of electro-mechanical practices, gained from hands-on experience.
• Able to read and interpret technical data (drawings and technical publications).
• Understanding of basic business processes eg customer requirements.
• Good level of manual dexterity.
• Computer literate, familiar with Excel and Word.
• Good team player.
• Good communication skills (written & verbal).
• Methodical and analytical approach to work.
• Safety orientated
Good understanding of the need to satisfy customer demands and expectations.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.

Overall Purpose/Objectives of Role

Operating within a matrix oriented organisation to provide focus and leadership for the Company’s activities on one or more programmes and/or bid activities to meet cost, quality and schedule objectives.

Key duties:

1. To provide leadership on one or more programmes/projects with accountability for project performance against its key success criteria. Key success criteria will typically relate to performance within budget, achieving technical performance requirements and completing activities to schedule.
2. Risk management: to identify and quantify risks to the achievement of the key success criteria and planning and executing activities to minimise the impact of each risk.
3. To maintain customer relations through development of an honest business relationship with procurement and engineering staff based on effective communication and adherence to promises.
4. To prepare and maintain project plans to include budgets, resource requirements, task allocation, task dependencies, quality standards etc.
5. To prepare management reports covering progress against budget, schedule etc with recommendations for corrective actions.
6. To maximise opportunities for follow-on business by understanding how we can further help customers to our mutual benefit.
7. To contribute to the further development of project management processes within the Company.

Essential Experience:

Planning and control
Familiarity with at least some of the following project management techniques such as:
- Work breakdown structures (WBS)
- Organisational breakdown structures (OBS)
- Cost breakdown structures (CBS)
- Earned value measurement
- Preparation of network programme plans
- Stakeholder analysis
Risk Management
- Familiarity with risk management techniques
- Experience of implementing risk mitigation plans within time and cost constraints
- An understanding of how to produce a strategy for managing problems when they occur
- Able to rank and manage the issues that arise

Time management
- Ability to demonstrate time management skills.
- Can demonstrate on-going ability to meet fixed timescales for delivery of goals and
objectives.
- Can show flexibility if there is slippage on projects, to minimise the problem.
- Can work on a number of projects at the same time.

Customer focus
- Focused on customer support.
- Aware of customer requirements and can schedule work in accordance with this.
- Able to build customer relationships.
- Experience of keeping customers informed of progress.
- Able to exercise judgement in managing customer relationships and expectations.

Influencing and leadership
- Experience of leading meetings and agreeing actions with peers.
- Good influencing and listening skills.
- Able to command respect.
- Able to encourage people to work together.
- Able to get people to come up with their own solutions and to own these.
- Able to vary style as appropriate.
- Good facilitation skills.
- Able to show resilience in the face of criticism.

Decision making
- A mix of approaches in making decisions, so that they are made at an appropriate speed.
- Ability to judge the appropriate decision in given circumstances.

Communication
- Ability to communicate effectively on technical and programme issues to Senior Management, peers and project team members via written reports, formal presentations, briefings and workshops and in one to one contacts.
- Able to read, understand and interpret customer enquiries, requests for proposals and quotations.
- Good two-way verbal communicator.
- Experience of working with customers, suppliers and other company departments especially sales and marketing.
- Can communicate with different levels of staff.
- Experience of report and proposal writing.
- Experience of word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, web browsers and email.

Team work
- Experience of cross functional teams
- Experience of matrix management
- Used to working with other disciplines to solve problems
Commercial and financial awareness with respect to
- Understanding the implications of common terms and conditions on the way in which programmes are managed and
- In being comfortable with working within budgets and expressing estimates to complete in monetary terms.

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

- Ensure delivery documentation satisfies the company and regulatory requirements.
- Accept First Article Inspection Reports to the requirements of AS9102 from the supply chain.
- Maintain a level of supplier contact to ensure any nonconformance is identified, recorded and actioned.
- Develop internal measuring systems including co-ordinate measuring machines.
- Maintain and operate to internal company sampling schemes.
- Aid with equipment calibration as necessary, particularly within the Goods Inwards function.
- Aid other functions with statistical techniques in respect of the supply chain (i.e. SPC, Cpk analysis, etc.).
- Compile First Article Inspection reports to AS9102 as required.
- Actively take part in the nonconformance and MRB Processes.
- Understand the Source Change Process with respect to receipt of product.
- Support supplier KPI activity with Supplier Quality Assurance.
- Aid with supplier development programmes and conduction on-site measurement analysis/assessment.
- Liaison with other parties regarding quality, technical (product failure) and other issues to ensure quality of product and process is maximised.
- High standard of housekeeping to lean/5S requirements.
- Prepared to undertake training relevant to existing or new equipment/processes relevant to the job.
- Willingness to undertake any broadly similar and relevant work within capabilities to further the company’s quality aims.

Education

Educated to a GCSE Grade C or above in Mathematics and English. Engineering apprenticeship or BTEC equivalent preferred.

Specialist Knowledge

· Knowledge of Quality Management Systems AS9100.
· General Aerospace experience.
· Knowledge of Quality Control techniques.
· Auditing knowledge (non-essential).
· AS9102 First Article Inspection.
· Knowledge and experience of measurement techniques.
· Experience of use and programming of Co-ordinate Measuring Machines (CMM).
· Customer and supplier interaction.
· Excellent communication skills.
· Ability to work under pressure and under own initiative.
· Reading Engineering Drawings.
· Good level of expertise to assist in problem solving.
· All applicable visual and electro-mechanical inspection and test measuring equipment required to perform function;
o CMM, vernier, micrometer, calliper, height gauges.
o Multi-testers, speed, pressure company proprietary test fixtures.
o Desktop PC

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR are those of an Employment Agency.