Location: Wellingborough
Department: Inspection
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 40 Hours

About the company:

Crosby Composites (established in 1982) is the number one composite manufacturer in the UK, excelling in the design and manufacture of high-quality carbon fibre parts. Our global customers cover Formula 1, motorsport but primarily automotive, making components and bodywork for some of the most prestigious and outrageous hyper cars in the world. Our services in supporting this include conceptual design, bespoke tolling and manufacturing (with inhouse state of the art spray painting, kit cutting and multiple large autoclaves).

About our employees:

As a member of the Crosby Composites team, we expect all our employees to:

• Adhere to all Crosby Composites policies and procedures
• Represent the Company in a professional manner at all times
• Ensure workplace safety is practiced at all times
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment

Core Values:

• Teamwork – At the heart of everything we do
• Reliability – Honesty and dependability in our everyday business
• Accountability – It up to me and its up to us, we all take responsibility for our actions
• Continuous Improvements – Always striving to improve all that we do
• Exceeding Expectations – Never excepting the minimum standard
• Driving Safety First – Looking out for ourselves and each other

Mission:

• Increase efficiency to +90%
• Reduce scrap to less than 2%
• Ensure 100% Plan Adherence
• Increase staff retention
• Develop and maintain the pace of staff development

Measures:

• Meeting the mission objectives (detailed above) which are measured and monitored through the data and metrics collected by the company

Purpose of the job:

This role is primarily to ensure that the Metrology and calibration functions meets the needs of the business and customers requirements, ensuring any issues are escalated appropriately.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall execution and delivery of the Metrology schedule for the inspection department, ensuring the schedule is completed and any issues with it are escalated to the !
• Responsible for ensuring that components, patterns, fixtures and any other items are measured I.A.W customer/ company requirements (tolerances, datum structures and GD&T)
• Responsible for the calibration of all company equipment, within the set timescales
• Ensure all relevant paperwork and admin is completed in a timely manner
• Liaise with other departments to ensure smooth production of current and future work
• Keeping the Metrology area in visit ready condition always
• Maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment

Quality and Standards

• Responsible for ensuring all work is always completed to the correct quality standard (both the customer and companies)
• Liaising with the Quality Manager, Operations Manager and Inspection Leader to debrief quality performance, issues, failures of process, corrective actions and ensuring any actions are followed and resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Ensure Metrology equipment is in good working condition and faults are immediately reported
• Ensuring the calibration function (within metrology) meets the requirements of the business

People Mentoring

• Responsible for the day to day mentoring of the Metrology staff
• Responsible for ongoing Metrology staff development and training

SKILLS:

• Programming the measurement of items using both Arm probing and laser scanning techniques (preferably with PowerInspect software)
• Good Understanding of GD&T
• Capable of interpreting complex engineering drawings
• Capable of reaching set targets within given time frame
• Knows when to escalate issues to management

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