Production Supervisor

Elgin Limited; Hawick; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnstons of Elgin in Hawick, Scotland, is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead daily production activities and allocate work across sections, ensuring safety, quality, and adherence to SOPs.

The role is full-time and on-site, with a 38-hour week on dayshift. You will monitor workflow, attend meetings, and support a culture of craftsmanship and sustainability in our mills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily workflow and ensure tasks are completed safely, efficiently, and to quality standards.
• Distribute work across all sections within the production process, ensuring priority items are managed and completed first.
• Allocate work based on priorities, skill levels, and production requirements.
• Monitor production levels and adjust staffing/work allocation as needed.
• Attend daily/weekly meetings to discuss production targets, priorities, and operational issues.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, health & safety, and standard operating procedures.

Job description

Job Title: Production Supervisor

We are looking for a Supervisor to join our growing team in Hawick. This role entails distributing work to different sections in our production process, liaising with Manager and other departmental supervisors as to priority items, and ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures and health and safety.

This is a full-time permanent position, working 38 hours a week on dayshift.

About the Role

You will be:

• Oversee daily workflow and ensure tasks are completed safely, efficiently, and to quality standards.
• Distribute work across all sections within the production process, ensuring priority items are managed and completed first.
• Allocate work based on priorities, skill levels, and production requirements.
• Monitor production levels and adjust staffing/work allocation as needed.
• Attend daily/weekly meetings to discuss production targets, priorities, and operational issues.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, health & safety, and standard operating procedures.

About you

You will:

• have the ability to carefully and accurately follow detailed written instructions
• take pride in doing a job well, and never compromise on high standards
• communicate well with colleagues and be an enthusiastic and supportive leader

About Us

Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world’s finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sourced cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, applying the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.

Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.

We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at [e-mail].

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement or qualification. At Johnstons of Elgin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but think your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment incountry job is based.