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MTrecs new career opportunity
As a Production Supervisor you will manage the machine shop to maximise output with a key focus on proactively driving and implementing continuous improvement in a precision engineering manufacturing environment.
If you have supervised within a machining environment then this position could be ideal for you.
The job you’ll do
- Lead, motivate and develop your team to achieve business goals, ensuring work standards are met and aligned with company policies and procedures.
- Create a process driven culture and remove variation supporting achievement of short and medium-term goals.
- Communicate and implement company policies, procedures and practices.
- Drive the Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People (SQCDP) culture.
- Implement and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Lead daily SQCDP cell meetings.
- Proactive management of absence and performance issues.
- Ensure full compliance to all business standards (H&S, quality and site performance).
- Ensure incidents/accidents are captured, reported and contained with corrective actions.
- Support in delivering business objectives.
- Provide guidance and feedback to team members, setting clear expectations.
- Identify poor performance and manage through performance improvement plans.
- Ensure training and development needs are identified and met.
- Contain faults and put corrective actions in place.
- Understand and drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) across the site.
- Ensure constructive handover and capture of all issues is completed.
- Practice and maintain 5S standards.
- Ensure quality systems and procedures are being adhered to i.e. first and last off inspections, in-process checks, Statistical Process Control (SPC) data and completion of documentation.
- Liaise with production engineers to jig and fixture design and routing amendments to ensure processes are capable of achieving drawing tolerances.
- Support with amendments to work lists on a daily basis.
- Promote and ensure high standards of quality at all times.
- Drive, implement and support continuous improvements ensuring improvements are acted upon
- Trouble shoot manufacturing problems to achieve optimal manufacturing outcome.
- Collate and report data to identify problem areas.
- Ensure that you work in a safe manner and comply with the British Engines Group Health, Safety and Environmental Policy.
About You
- To apply, we ask that you are an experienced Production Supervisor with significant experience working in a fast-paced engineering/manufacturing environment, ideally in high precision machining.
- You will have experience managing teams in manufacturing processes, including staffing levels and machine capacity planning.
- You will be experienced in implementing and maintaining HSE standards and able to demonstrate people management to motivate and develop your team.
- We are looking for someone who is a strong leader, results orientated, with ability to plan and deliver against production deadlines.
- If you can demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive, positive and enthusiastic approach to adopt and implement new ideas and processes we would love to hear from you.
- NEBOSH general certificate and six-sigma green belt qualification would be advantageous.
- This position will be on a full time, permanent basis, and working day shift hours of 38.75 per week.
The Rewards and the Benefits
- Wellbeing app (Employee Assistance Program)
- Holiday buy and sell
- Car scheme
- Competitive pay
- Enhanced pension
- Training and development
