ROLE TYPE: Permanent
HOURS: 41.5 hours per week
SALARY: £30,000 – £40,000 per annum dependent on experience
Due to the Company’s ongoing success and growth, we have an exciting new position for a Wet Paint Foreman. This role requires a team player with expert knowledge in all types of wet paint spraying processes, who will oversee the operational delivery, success and growth in this area of the business.
- To have a background as an experienced paint sprayer with extensive knowledge of spraying many types of substrates in all types of materials (from primers to metallics and lacquers), using 1 and 2k products.
- 5+ years’ experience, managing a shop floor team running multiple paint lines / departments, achieving company objectives.
- Knowledge and understanding of IS0 9007:2015 or equivalent.
- To have good people management skills with experience in actioning and maintaining company disciplinary and H&S requirements.
- Ensure high levels of Housekeeping, working to 5S.
- Able to work to the highest quality required for A1 automotive standards.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Understand how equipment, from spray guns to spray booths and ovens, operate.
- Ability to simultaneously perform multiple tasks, meeting deadlines and responding positively to pressure
- Problem-solving attitude makes effective decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- IT skills: Excel and Word.
- Able to train ALL operators on a line, from General Operatives, Sprayers and Inspectors.
- Responsible for the daily operational management of a Wet Paint Team.
- Production and Labour planning, working closely with Account Managers.
- Monitor production efficiency and able to produce performance KPI information.
- Conduct briefings to the teams providing performance feedback and targets and objectives.
- Attending and contributing to internal and external (customer) meetings.
- Ensuring daily operation KPI’s are met effectively and efficiently.
- Able to identify areas of continuous improvement and deliver the relevant training.
- Highlight to senior management any critical situations which could impact on production.
- To be responsible for the day-to-day quality and production output of your team.
- Escalate issues as and when they occur.
- Support other teams in achieving company targets.
- Ensuring compliance with Health & Safety regulation
- Excellent work life balance
- Company pension
- Competitive salary
- Company benefits/rewards scheme
Frederick Cooper (Birmingham) Ltd is recognised as a service-driven, cost-effective and friendly, Wet Paint Spraying & Powder Coating Business. We finish components for a wide variety of Industries, covering Automotive (customers include Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti, JLR, McLaren, Rolls Royce amongst others), General Industrial, Engineering, Drinks (Dispense), and Medical and have a very strong reputation in all sectors.
We provide our customers with end-to-end bespoke finishing solutions, including component preparation, paint application and post application, finishing processes, which includes polishing and/or printing. Our teams are used to dealing with volumes of products, from 5 million parts per year down to one or two parts per day for high-end projects.
We have multiple coating lines, booths and wet spray rooms, meaning we can offer our customers an agile service, and react swiftly to last-minute fluctuations in scheduling and priorities. Frederick Cooper is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 accredited.
