Safety - Maintain the highest levels of Safety and Environment at all times
Quality - Achieve total customer satisfaction by driving quality excellence
Cost - Optimise profitability and market competitiveness
Delivery - On-time delivery of business goals and objectives
People - Continuous development of empowered multi-skilled workforce
SAFETY
Our objective is to maintain the highest level of safety at all times and to operate best practice green facilities. We continuously review, improve, standardise processes and flow down to our supply chain.
QUALITY
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King & Fowler was established in 1887 and is proud of its reputation for providing the highest quality surface treatments. King & Fowler employs a high calibre technical, quality and production teams with more than 1000 years engineering and chemistry experience. King & Fowler has an in-house NDT Level III. King & Fowler has a broad range of OEM and Industry approvals including NADCAP and AS9100. To enable rapid growth, King & Fowler has made significant investments in training & appraisal programmes to continuously develop the knowledge of the workforce and drive world class quality levels. King & Fowler is committed to continuous improvement and 6 sigma and has developed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of Liverpool to drive world class manufacturing standards.
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COST
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Through continued investment in new facilities, King & Fowler is able to drive economies of scale through shared technical expertise. The low volume, high variety, high complexity nature of aerospace treatments restricts automation opportunities and relies heavily on skilled labour. King & Fowler is therefore establishing low cost ‘hubs’ in emerging economies to benefit from competitive labour rates. King & Fowler provides enabling contracts to OEM and 1st Tier supply chains to benefit from specification aggregation, improved demand visibility and economies of scale. The enabling contracts allow King & Fowler to commit cost down programmes and pre-agreed service levels. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of Liverpool is focused on the elimination of waste from internal and external processes. King & Fowler proactively groups part into families to drive resource utilisation and reduce set-up time. - King & Fowler is committed to invest in the latest value-adding technologies to broaden capabilities, increase capacities and drive efficiencies.
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DELIVERY
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King & Fowler operates a 24/7 shift pattern to ensure continuous efficient operation of plant and drive customer service through weekend processing. King & Fowler has created a standalone 24/7 Fast Track facility to drive unrivalled customer service through a dedicated and responsive production team. King & Fowler has separated its order book into Runners, Repeaters and Strangers. Dedicated cells have been developed for all runners. The Repeaters have been grouped into part families whereas the Strangers are processed through the Fast Track facility to prevent impact on resource utilisation. King & Fowler has developed a web-enabled planning & control system - AeroTrac™ - which enables customers to track order status on-line, review key performance measures and request Fast Track delivery dates. The commercial strategy of King & Fowler is to develop partnerships with large 1st tier customers and provide key account management services which include dedicated account managers, pre-agreed service levels, allocated capacity, key account review meetings, on-line AeroTrac™ account and regular transport.
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PEOPLE
Our aim at King & Fowler is to be regarded as an Employer of Choice that is well known and respected in the aerospace industry for employing high calibre individuals who are provided with opportunities to advance their careers.
It is our stated aim to always employ and retain the best team in the industry - we will recruit, develop, motivate and reward the pool of talent we require to achieve our goals and ambitions.
We believe that our people are our major asset and are prepared to support that belief by investing funds to train and develop the team.
In addition to providing forward thinking and ambitious individuals with excellent opportunities for career advancement, we offer competitive rates of pay and benefits including company bonus.
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