Production Team Lead

**KEY PURPOSE OF JOB**

Product development and manufacturing aerospace engineering company in Somerset West has a permanent position for a Production Team lead, responsible for managing the day to day activities of an assigned production line and team. Actively support the teams outputs with the assembly of high-reliability electro-mechanical products

**KEY TASKS**

**General: Production Team Lead**:

- Responsible for ensuring that the cleanroom always complies with NSS internal cleanliness standards
- Responsible for ensuring that cleanroom logs are completed accurately and up to date
- Responsible for reporting any deficiencies in materials, parts, or consumables to Quality
- Responsible for maintaining stock levels of materials, parts, or consumables and reporting any shortage to stores for replenishment
- Responsible for execution and adherence to the production plan
- Ensure team actively logs and complete tasks in MOM in line with the production plan
- Plan, organise, coordinate, manage and control production teams to ensure output delivery and quality standard requirements are met
- Ensure that all work standards use are current and all steps are followed and adhered to
- Responsible for identifying issues and potential line stops, that may impact the capacity planning and the reporting thereof to the Production Shift Supervisor
- Report and escalate problems, findings and discipline problems to the next level
- Assign duties, set goals, communicate to all levels, conduct team meetings and ensure a smooth shift hand over
- Ensure good time keeping at all times. Address time keeping problems and escalate to Production Shift Supervisor. Team must be on time and deliver on time
- Ensure personnel is working safely and following health and safety rules and regulations.

**Operations: Assembly Technician**:

- Responsible for the day-to-day cleanroom operations
- Population and hand-soldering of PCBs to the highest (space/satellite) standards.
- Assembly of harnesses
- Assembly of boards and other components into chasses
- Application of glues, thermal compounds, and conformal coatings
- Operation of related assembly aids, such as curing oven, vacuum tank, compressor, solder pots, crimping tools, etc
- Ensuring traceability of all parts during the assembly process
- Logging and controlling the storage of electronic and other components as well as work in progress and completed products
- Secure packing of completed products suitable for international shipments
- Capturing of tasks and job status in line with build operations
- Reporting production progress and issues to line manager
- Review assembly documentation/build instructions and understand what needs to be done and how it is to be done
- Ensure all documentation is signed off for traceability
- Ensure correct procedures, processes are followed during manufacturing

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE**
- Relevant Degree or Diploma form a recognised institution

**Experience & Knowledge**:

- Experience (ideally within the aerospace or defence industry)
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in a manufacturing environment
- 3-5 year experience as a Team Leader in a manufacturing environment (preferable)
- Ability to interpret mechanical and electronic drawings
- Appreciation and experience of ISO9001 requirements
- Knowledge of satellite subsystems and the space environment
- Cleanroom, ESD, and optical assembly environment
- Good knowledge and experience in technical support in a manufacturing environment

**COMPETENCIES & SKILLS**
- Positive self-motivated, self-starter attitude
- Responsible
- Team player
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Customer focused
- Able to persuade and influence others
- Flexible and able to multi-task, can work within an ambiguous, fast-moving environment
- Resourcefulness in setting priorities

**LANGUAGE**

English

**APPLICATION**

To learn more about Newspace Systems, visit our website:
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Experience**:

- Team leader: 3 years (preferred)