Supervisor Manufacturing Production Lead

Manpower UK Ltd; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing agency is seeking a Production Leader in Skelmersdale, England. The role involves providing frontline leadership to production employees, driving safety improvements, and monitoring production rates, quality, and cost. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, demonstrable leadership abilities, and background in assembly or electronic operations. This position offers an opportunity to impact operational excellence while ensuring compliance with safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in assembly operations (manual and automatic) is preferred.
• Background in the electronic or PPE industry is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise production employees effectively.
• Drive safety improvements and ensure compliance.
• Monitor production rates and maintain quality standards.
• Attend meetings and track productivity.

Skills

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to interact with stakeholders

Influencing skills for change

Impact in safety and improvement

Leadership and people skills

Ability to prioritise activities

Tools

SAP knowledge

Job description

The Production Leader will work under the guidance of the Operations Manager alongside fellow Production Area Leaders. They will direct day to day operations, primarily focused on ensuring we 'win the day' in terms of safety, quality, service, cost and engagement. An element of the role will be forward looking, driving improvements in the area, striving towards operational excellence and reducing costs. On a day to day basis they will:

Responsibilities

• Provide front line leadership and supervision to the production employees within your department
• Identify and drive safety improvements, working with crews to raise and close safety actions. Ensure Risk Assessments are relevant and up to date for all processes within the area.
• Establish an effective Tier 1 meeting and coach operators on first line problem resolution and quality conformance.
• Run Tier 2, monitoring production rates, yields, quality, costs and order status.
• Attend and collate reports/productivity, outputs etc for Tier 3

Desired background

• Assembly operations (manual and automatic).
• Electronic Industry
• PPE Industry

Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interact on a broad basis; external/internal customers, employees and senior management.
• Influencing skills to drive others to make/accept change.
• Ability to make an impact specifically in terms of safety, continuous improvement and quality improvement.
• SAP knowledge preferred but instruction and support will be given.
• Understanding and adoption of safe operations (for example, manual handling, LOTO, COSHH).
• Demonstrable Leadership and people skills.
• Able to prioritise activities and get the best from their team, sometimes under pressure.