Production Supervisor

Tatton Recruitment Group; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Certain Advantage seeks an experienced Production Supervisor to oversee a team of operators and apprentices in a metal manufacturing environment. You will allocate work, ensure safety, and drive continuous improvement on a fast-paced shop floor.

Collaborating with production schedulers, you will plan capacity, meet deadlines, and apply lean practices to remove waste while upholding quality and compliance, including UK SC clearance when required.

Qualifications

• Proactiveness and timely problem solving with forward thinking.
• Professional verbal and written communication in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC) and meet residency requirements.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of operators and apprentices, including work allocation.
• Work with production schedulers to plan capacity and meet deadlines.
• Apply lean manufacturing practices and eliminate the 8 wastes.
• Resolve operational issues while maintaining high quality.

Skills

Proactiveness

Problem solving

Decision making

Team leadership

Job description

Certain Advantage is partnering with a well-established Aerospace engineering business to recruit an experienced Production Supervisor. In this role, you will be responsible for supervising a team of operators and apprentices, including work allocation, enablement within a metal manufacturing environment.

• Must be committed to working safely and comply with the 5S standards in place.
• Production supervisor within a metallic sheet metal or machining manufacturing environment

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for supervising a team of operators and apprentices - including work allocation, enablement
• Working closely with the production schedulers to plan capacity and ensure that the required operations are completed on time
• Ensure that lean manufacturing operational practices are in place and that 8 waste are eliminated
• Actively resolve operational issues and ensure high levels of quality are achieved

Personal skills/qualifications:

• Proactiveness, timely problem solving, effective decision making, pragmatic and solution based forward thinking
• Must be highly professional when interacting internally and externally; verbally + email communication and be able to manage time and tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Due to the nature of the work, you must have the ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC) - must meet standard UK nationality/residency eligibility requirements for site access.