Halstock Cabinet Makers are seeking a Workshop Floor Manager & Skills Coach to join our production team.

Based in Somerset; we design, manufacture, and install bespoke interiors for the high-end residential market.

Why come and work for Halstock?

Opportunities to take on more responsibility for ambitious individuals.
Working for a company that offers new modern facilities through our continual investment back into the business.
Full, professional training is provided on our high-tech machinery.
Join our friendly production team and learn from the best in our industry. We have a total of 104 staff with a combined 500+ years of cabinet-making experience across the whole business.

Job Description:

The role is all about leadership, support, coaching, and training of makers, setting the conditions for all to succeed and leading by example.

Leadership:

Motivates the production team and encourages Halstock team spirit.
Leading the making teams to use HCML tried and tested processes to ensure efficiency.
Lead by example with exceptional organisation and planning of machinery usage.
Champions cleanliness, tidiness, and flow of the workshop.
Champions take pride in their work and strive for the highest quality standards.
Champions makers take pride in their tool kit and HCML fixed and portable machinery.
Process planning, aiming to minimise handling and getting the processes in the right order for each department to maximise flow.

Training and development of Halstock staff:

Observing working practices, offering advice, and coaching staff.
Support, training, and coaching of makers, offering guidance on best practices and taking the time to work with people to explain and show how best to do things.
Works with the Production Manager to set out how planned training is to be delivered by Apprentice Trainers.
Ensures all staff are trained to use machinery and plan in refresher training with our machine trainers.
Ensure best practises are shared amongst making teams.

Scheduling/Planning:

Encourages the team to plan overtime to ensure compliance to key dates.
Batch processing of multiple components for efficiency gains as set out by the Production Manager and maximising pre-finishing to reduce reassembly tasks.

Health & Safety:

Productivity:

Attends process planning with Lead Makers & Production Manager, aiming to minimise handling and getting the processes in the right order for each department to maximise flow and run through in the least number of hours.
Actions change around for space planning of where the next jobs are to be set out, and jobs moving to the next departments.

KPIs:

Skills & Abilities:

Extensive Cabinet Making experience and a passion for the highest quality standards
Thorough attention to detail
Work well under pressure and remain calm
Dynamic and quick-thinking
Ambition and desire to succeed
Excellent communication skills
Excellent organisational skills
Enthusiastic and hard-working
Work well as part of a team
Ability to use your initiative

Behaviours:

Encourage a culture of checking and right-first-time
Set a standard of excellence
Focus action on the top priorities
Focus energy and attention to detail
Respond to requests promptly and correctly
Specific praise
Systematically ask people/teams who excel to share effectiveness with other teams

Halstock Cabinet Makers Ltd

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