Powder Coating Plant Leader
Jackson Hogg are supporting a North East manufacturing business with the appointment of a Powder Coating Plant Leader. This is a hands-on role to take full ownership of a busy coating operation, improving output, tightening quality, and bringing structure to how the plant runs day to day.This isn’t a paper-based management role. You’ll be on the shop floor, driving standards, solving problems, and getting the best out of the team.
What you’ll be responsible for
Operations: Running daily coating activity (prep, coating, curing, finishing, inspection), delivering production to plan, coordinating with fabrication and assembly, and removing bottlenecks.Quality: Owning finish quality (thickness, adhesion, colour), reducing defects, driving right-first-time performance, and maintaining traceability.
HSE: Ensuring safe handling of powders and chemicals, PPE compliance, and maintaining ventilation, filtration, and waste systems.
People: Leading, organising and developing operators and technicians, setting standards, and building accountability on shift.
Equipment: Keeping lines, booths, ovens and conveyors running, coordinating maintenance, and reducing downtime.
Improvement: Driving efficiency, reducing waste and rework, and implementing practical continuous improvement.
Stock: Managing powders, chemicals and consumables, working with procurement, and controlling usage and cost.
What success looks like
- Consistent output against plan
- Improved first-pass yield
- Reduced rework and defects
- Better powder utilisation
- Lower downtime
- Strong safety performance
What we’re looking for
- Experience leading or supervising a powder coating or finishing operation
- Strong understanding of coating processes, equipment and surface prep
- Hands-on leadership style, comfortable on the shop floor
- Able to manage people, prioritise work and hold standards
- Strong problem-solving and organisational ability
- Manufacturing or fabrication experience is beneficial
- Exposure to lean or CI is an advantage
If you’re leading a coating line or finishing department and want more control and progression, get in touch with Mathew Johnson at Jackson Hogg for a confidential discussion.
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Mathew Johnson
Mathew leads the Industrial team at Jackson Hogg. His experience within recruitment has predominately focused on industrial blue collar markets, both temporary and permanent placements, as well as within the logistics market. Mathew joined Jackson Hogg May 2023 and focusses on unskilled, semi skilled and skilled labour placements, in sectors such as automotive, fabrication, engineering and FMCG markets. Outside of work, his time is usually used up looking after his two daughters, following Sunderland AFC and trying to keep fit.
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