Production Supervisor

Production Supervisor - Days
Salary Basic £31,600 but with Overtime circa £35,000
Manufacturing
Managing a small team of circa 16 staff
Hours Standard 40 hours - Monday to Friday 07:30 to 16:30. However, during the busy season, Jan - April, overtime is often required.

My client, a dynamic and ambitious manufacturing company, is looking to recruit a Day-based Production Supervisor for their site located in Henstridge, in between Wincanton and Yeovil. My client supplies fertilisers to the amenity turf market (football pitches, bowling greens, etc.) and has recently become a member of a global group.

Role: The successful Production Team Leader / Production Supervisor will report into the Production Manager and will look after circa 16 people, ensuring that the production facility is operating at its optimum. You will ensure that the Production Facility is equipped to prepare, manufacture, pack, warehouse, receive, and dispatch the company's full range of materials and products. Your role will include direct hands-on intervention with factory activities where and when needed. The role will include supporting the Production Manager in delivering low-cost production, conformance to plan, maximum capacity, optimum yield, and minimal downtime, i.e., best efficiency.

Production Supervisor Duties will include:

1. Supporting, assisting, and deputising for the Production Manager and other members of the leadership team as needed -- both reactively and proactively.
2. Ensuring that standards and requirements of Health & Safety are robustly maintained.
3. Ensuring that standards of product and material quality, waste, and housekeeping are fully and consistently met.
4. Organising and monitoring all production activities and team members.
5. Ensuring that the production plans are completed and achieved in the most efficient way.
6. Striving to improve performance against targets, driving results, monitoring, and feeding back outcomes.
7. Ensuring that Shop Floor Data Collection is maintained accurately.

Production Supervisor Key Skills Required:

1. Previous production supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.
2. Good understanding of Health & Safety.
3. Excellent communication and people skills.
4. Flexible and happy to work the additional overtime hours during the busier times in the year (Jan-April).

This role will suit a person that may have previously worked as a Shift Manager, Shift Controller, Production Controller, Production Manager, or Production Supervisor. The role is commutable from Wincanton, Shepton Mallet, Yeovil, Henstridge, Bruton, and Shaftesbury.