Operations Supervisor - Lead Safety, Quality & Growth

Precision People; Loughborough; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term career progression

Ongoing training and development

Supportive management team

Opportunity to make a genuine impact

Stable and growing manufacturing busin

Job summary

Precision People is recruiting an Operations Supervisor for a growing manufacturing business in the UK. The role focuses on leading daily manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, quality, and timely production against targets.

The successful candidate will develop teams, implement process improvements, and drive performance across production, quality, engineering, and management functions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading manufacturing teams in a production or engineering environment.
• Strong focus on safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to drive productivity and meet KPIs.
• Excellent communication and people management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise day-to-day manufacturing activities.
• Promote a strong health and safety culture across the operation.
• Conduct safety inspections and support risk assessments.
• Drive quality standards and ensure procedures are followed.
• Manage staff performance, training and development.
• Coordinate resources to achieve production plans.
• Monitor productivity and KPIs.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee WIP, materials and product control.
• Support NPI activities and operational readiness.
• Facilitate problem solving to minimise downtime.
• Collaborate with other departments to meet business objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Health & safety

Continuous improvement

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

Precision People is recruiting an Operations Supervisor for a growing manufacturing business in the UK. The role focuses on leading daily manufacturing operations, ensuring safety, quality, and timely production against targets.

The successful candidate will develop teams, implement process improvements, and drive performance across production, quality, engineering, and management functions.