Lead Night Shift: Sheet Metal Supervisor

Andrews Recruitment Group; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking an experienced Metal Work Supervisor to lead the night-shift production team in a busy manufacturing environment. The role focuses on hands-on leadership in sheet metal fabrication, ensuring work is produced to drawings and specifications while maintaining high safety standards.

You will allocate tasks, monitor quality and output, and collaborate with maintenance to resolve issues, driving continuous improvement and staff development on a permanent night

Qualifications

• Supervisory or team leader experience within manufacturing.
• Strong fabrication / sheet-metal background.
• Understanding of press brake and metal-forming operations.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.
• Strong people-management capability.
• Comfortable working permanent nights.
• Health & Safety focused.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the night-shift metalwork team.
• Allocate work and manage daily production priorities.
• Monitor output, quality and productivity.
• Support press brake, fabrication and sheet-metal operations.
• Ensure work is completed to drawings and specifications.
• Identify and resolve production issues.
• Maintain Health & Safety standards.
• Support training and development of team members.
• Monitor machine and equipment requirements.
• Work with maintenance teams where issues arise.
• Report production performance and outstanding actions.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Sheet metal

Fabrication

Leadership

Engineering drawings

People management

Night shift

Health & safety

Problem solving

Night shift experience

Job description

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking an experienced Metal Work Supervisor to lead the night-shift production team in a busy manufacturing environment. The role focuses on hands-on leadership in sheet metal fabrication, ensuring work is produced to drawings and specifications while maintaining high safety standards.

You will allocate tasks, monitor quality and output, and collaborate with maintenance to resolve issues, driving continuous improvement and staff development on a permanent night