Production Supervisor

Donaldson Timber Systems; Witney; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Donaldson Timber Systems as a Production Supervisor, where you will play a key role in managing automated production lines and ensuring safety and quality standards are met. You will lead a team, striving for excellence in production efficiency, while also benefiting from competitive pay, significant development opportunities, and a supportive company culture.

Benefits

30 days holiday per year

Pension scheme

Sick pay and life assurance

Flexible benefits programme

Cycle to work scheme

Gym membership

Dental insurance

Dine out discounts

Qualifications

• Experience supervising manufacturing facilities with a high degree of automation.
• Understanding of 5S and Design for Manufacture principles.

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed production targets while maintaining safety and quality standards.
• Manage day-to-day operations of production teams, ensuring systems are operational.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Resource planning

Problem-solving

Health and Safety best practices

Education

Experience in a manufacturing environment

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

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We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, at Witney Oxfordshire with hybrid working available.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future. In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need a Production Supervisor to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

As a Production Supervisor, you’ll be an important member of the team, responsible for meeting or exceeding production targets while ensuring our automated systems remain fully maintained and operational.

Reporting to the Manufacturing Manager, you’ll be working in a fast paced environment, where you’ll take responsibility for meeting and exceeding safety, quality and productivity targets.

You’ll be responsible for running a zero labour wall line with 8 robot cells and a one-of-a-kind automated floor cassette line, meeting production targets while maintaining a safety focused culture.

You’ll have a good working of health, safety and environmental best practice and regulation within manufacturing with an ability to monitor performance data, identify areas for improvement and efficiency.

You’ll be responsible for the day to day operations, ensuring we meet productivity, financial and quality standards targets. You’ll ensure that automated systems are fully operational with little downtime, resolving any issues as they arise, quickly to minimise impact on customers timelines.

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for success, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You have a successful career in a manufacturing environment, with experience of supervising manufacturing facilities with a high degree of automation.

You can demonstrate robust management of resource planning ensuring the right teams are in place to meet production volumes.

Ideally, you’ll have experience in lean manufacturing with the ability to seek out and improve productivity and workflows. Working knowledge of 5S and Design for Manufacture principles, proficient in ERP and root cause analysis and solutions.

You’ll be comfortable taking decisions and recommending solutions based on data.

You’ll also have excellent system skills using various software to measure and manage performance.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch. If this sounds like the right step for your career, please click here to apply and find out more.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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