Production Supervisor
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £27,000 per annum + permanent employee benefits
This is a demanding and dynamic role which has huge potential to deliver operational change and radically raise standards within the client. Successful candidates will be required to work on a rotational shift basis of days and nights.
With responsibility for safety, resourcing, staff training and development, the achievement of production targets, in addition to actively promoting a culture of continuous improvement, every day will be varied, challenging and rewarding
Key activities:
Ensuring exceptional housekeeping (5s) and compliance with health, safety and environmental procedures and legislation.
Ensuring product quality meets, if not exceeds customer expectations (internal & external customers).
Ensuring ‘Green’ repairs are effective whilst undertaking root cause analysis to learn and ‘bake in’ in quality process changes.
Management of QA inspections ensuring daily checks are performed and reported in full.
Delivery of short, medium and long term production targets. Meet or exceed specific KPI in respect of Productivity, Waste Reduction, Rejects, Machine Uptime and Staff availability.
Effectively manage a team, within a defined area, to ensure just in time delivery of materials and other resources aligned to production plan (for example steel, seals, raw materials, admixtures, loose tools, PPE).
Develop a fully competent, knowledgeable team who strictly adhere to fit for purpose underpinning SOPs.
Identify and implement productivity improvements using lean principles.
Be aware of associated costs of production and endeavour to reduce, using the 8-waste principles, where possible.
Grow and develop the team making sure that personnel are not permitted to undertake tasks without the correct training, review and approval processes in place (sign-off).
Qualifications and Skills:
Knowledge and experience of supervising / managing a production team, including performance & attendance management (essential).
Experience of implementing Lean / leading Continuous Improvement events (preferable).
Ability to create and maintain production reports summarizing plant performance & achievement of objectives will be necessary.
Commitment to promoting and actively developing safe behaviours & attitudes in line with the Company values (essential).
Experience of managing people with the confidence to tackle a variety of performance and other related issues, whilst ensuring adherence to HR compliance, processes & policies (preferable).
A commitment to own continued personal professional development is a prerequisite.
Displaying personal attributes such as tenacity, resilience, a positive mindset, assertiveness & strong desire to succeed (extremely desirable).
Good communication skills and ability to work under own initiative is (essential).
To already have, or ability to quickly attain an IOSH Certificate in Managing Safety (3 day) (essential).
To commit to undertake VFL Training and actively practise techniques as part of routine safety based conversations (essential).
To already have, or be able to quickly and successfully achieve “Train The Trainer” status (essential) – to support formal sign off of staff T&D plans
To be First Aid trained – Emergency Responder - essential, willingness to become an Appointed Person – very desirable.
To be capable of organising and leading daily team pre-shift briefings (essential).
So, if you have the right experience and skills please contact 01332 854 188 or email info@mackayservices.com
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