Job Title: Shift Production Supervisor
Location: Ramsbury (SN8)
Contract type: Permanent
Our client are wound care providers supplying wound adhesive dressings and solutions, manufactured for the Healthcare and Industrial markets. Their focus is on creating value for customers and they have 60 years of experience in the manufacturing industry.
Due to growth, they are now looking to add a Production Superivsor to their team on a permanent basis.
This role directly supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in the manufacture or parts or products using automated and manual processes. It is the responsibility of this position to ensure that all employees responsible to it operate within company policy and procedure and applicable laws. This role focuses on customers and ensure that all activities within the area are customer and quality driven.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; talk and hear. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 kilograms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Key Responsibilities:
People & Safety
- Ensure that the working environment, working practices and general behaviour of all employees support the company policies, procedures and applicable laws.
- Supervise staff to ensure a harmonious and efficient production environment.
- Interpret business requirements to employees and assigns duties accordingly.
- Responsible for performance management, training and development of staff in conjunction with Production Manager and Production Trainers.
- Manage and control the physical work area to ensure a safe working environment at all time.
- Be technical lead for production running issues, resolve/escalate to Production Manager and Engineering team
- Responsible for time and attendance management and escalation in conjunction with the Production Manager
- To work with the Production Manager to ensure manufacturing costs are controlled
- To work with the Production Manager to monitor and work toward a zero target of machinery downtime.
- Develop and recommend and implement changes in work practices and manual and automated processes to increase efficiency
- In conjunction with Production Manager establish labour standards and routings for the clean room and component storage area and ensure those standards are met.
- Works towards the reduction / elimination of Work in Progress (WIP) within the Clean room and Component Storage Areas.
Quality
- Inspect and measure parts and products to verify conformance to specifications and to support the introduction of quality initiatives.
- Supervise equipment adjustment to prevent manufacture of products which fail to meet standards.
- Maintain all relevant production and quality documentation as required
- In conjunction with the Quality and the Production Team, investigate and close Non-conformance Reports (NCR's) in a timely manner.
- Develop, recommend, and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) within the Clean room and Component Storage Area.
- Take part in the development of initiatives to improve standards of quality within the business.
Essential experience/ qualifications:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate or develop the following skills and competencies:
- Analytical thinking
- Problem solving ability
- Customer focused
- Strong Interpersonal skills and conflict resolution
- Teamwork
- Strong oral and written communication in English
- Managing diverse ranges of people
- Quality management
- Cost consciousness
- Strong work ethic
- Ethical judgment, reasoning and decision making ability
- Planning, organizing and prioritizing
- Attention to detail
Computer Skills
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have a general knowledge of: -
- Inventory software (Sage)
- Excel Spreadsheet software
- Word Processing software.
Education and/or Experience
- 3-5 years' experience in clean room manufacture with supervisory experience.
- A good level of education and experience in GMP manufacture.
- Priority planning
- Change management
- Team Building
Desirable skills/ experience/ qualifications:
- EHS awareness/ qualification, NEBOSH diploma
- Desire to succeed and drive efficiencies
- Motivational skills/ experience within team environment
- Driving culture change, collaboration and teamwork
- SMED training and implementation
Sounds like the role for you? Please don't hesitate in sending us your CV for consideration.