Production Supervisor
Inspire Resourcing are recruiting a Production Supervisor on behalf of our client in Sheffield.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Production Supervisor, who is looking to join an established and friendly team.
Duties:
- Apply lean manufacturing techniques and methods towards production processes.
- Read and interpret work orders, patterns and plan production processes in line with the business requirements to meet production targets.
- Supervise and coordinate the activities for production workers, reporting any concerns to the operations manager.
- Solve and review queries and concerns in the production areas with support from the operations manager. Troubleshooting equipment/process issues to minimise downtime.
- Ensure products are manufactured on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
- Train, support and evaluate team members to improve performance and productivity.
- Maintain production records, prepare reports, and communicate progress to the operations manager.
- Identify areas for process improvement and implement best practices for efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and industrial regulations following safety guidelines & enforce safety protocols.
- Work with other health and safety representatives, promoting positive changes.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure smooth workflow.
- Undertake any training required & support the training matrix making sure all employees are appropriately trained. You will be responsible for initiating employee learning and new training methods as appropriate.
- Learn the production processes and initiate improvement methods, ensuring that production processes are in line with company and regulatory requirements.
- Support resources making sure assets are used efficiently and correctly. Organising materials, support material shortages, stock levels and stock controls. Control tools, equipment and machinery within production environments.
- Calculate and evaluate materials in support of booking out goods to maintain stock accuracy.
- Add and update the manufacturing planner daily, preparing all processes to be discussed in the daily production meeting.
- Organise manufacturing sheets, works orders in line with production plans and other documentation.
- Organise daily requirements and employees to achieve production plans .
- Record daily cell figures and details into data to define average production targets and gaps towards the planner.
- Calculating powder coating/painting costs working with purchasing and organising processes to hit planning targets continually.
- Support the creation of works order, picking lists, crate sizes and weights.
- Support inductions, probations, back to work interviews, holidays, sickness and other daily requirements etc.,
- Use tools and techniques to support customer defects and manufacturing concerns to improve processes.
- Supervise and support the factory supervisor and team leaders to make sure the production flows are sufficient.
Requirements:
- 3 Years experience in a similar role
- Understanding of lean manufacturing is advantageous