Production Supervisor

Production Supervisor
Permanent:
Shift based
Excellent starting salary + shift premiums & benefits!

The Supervisor role is a critical position within our MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) operations where you will play an active role in the completion of production plans (MPS) with responsibility for the operational processes for the multiple Landing Gears.

Are you ready to contribute to ambitious projects and create a positive impact in the aerospace industry?

At Safran, you'll work with the brightest minds and best technologies, building valuable experience and joining an innovative, supportive team.

Safran Landing Systems are a global leader in aircraft landing and braking systems, from commercial and business travel to military and defence fleets.

Our expertise cover the entire life cycle of our products from end-to-end; OEM Design, Engineering & Manufacturing, through to Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO).

Looking after the people who make Safran great is a priority for us. We offer a range of benefits designed to support you, both in and outside of work:

Time to unwind:
Start with 25 days of holiday, plus UK Bank Holidays, and we offer options to buy or sell days to fit your needs
Sharing in our success:
We believe in rewarding your contributions with an annual bonus and share scheme options
Planning for your future:
We offer a generous pension scheme, with up to 8% matched contributions, and life assurance at 4x your salary
Making your work life easier:
Enjoy onsite parking, including EV chargers, a subsidised restaurant, bicycle storage, and shower facilities
Flexibility that works for you:
We offer a wide range of flexible benefits

We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Production team as a Supervisor at our Landing Systems MRO site in Gloucester.

Your Role:

The Supervisor role is a critical position within our MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) operations where you will play an active role in the completion of production plans (MPS) with responsibility for the operational processes for the multiple Landing Gears.

You'll lead from the front and collaborate with other supervisors to coordinate completion of kits to enable assembly prior to despatch. Technically strong, drive and a structured approach will be vital!

Key responsibilities:

Lead the Assembly team, ensuring effective people management and use of reports and application of tool kits to support performance, conduct, absence, wellbeing, annual leave management, overtime reviews
Take accountability for dedicated focals in your area of responsibility to control key processes, including but not limited to 5S, Calibration, Maintenance, Health & Safety, Tooling, technical documentation reviews and GPI's
Ensure that works procedures and SOP's are adhered to at all times
Lead on Continuous Improvement initiatives including process mapping, kaizen events, 5S etc
Effectively cascade policy deployment initiatives and information across your team and wider business
Control of WIP levels, rotable piece parts and SPT reduction.
Champion adherence to the Airworthiness regulations and ensure compliance via robust and accurate works procedure reviews
Enhance Employee Engagement - Contribute to QRQC meetings and own action plans associated to improvements in internal quality/rejects. Update during monthly reviews

What You'll Bring:

A strong engineering background is highly desired, ideally within a production, manufacturing or assembly environment (aerospace would be advantageous but not essential)
Demonstrable experience of leading & managing a team
A working knowledge of lean principles, and how to deploy these to drive continuous improvement
The ability to adopt an efficient 'hands-on' approach as appropriate
Capable of interpreting and communicating KPI's and developing appropriate actions
Good knowledge of Microsoft applications
Familiarity of 8D and QRQC tools would be advantageous
At Safran, we understand that diversity and inclusion make teams stronger and more effective, and as an organisation, we are committed to fair and equitable employment practices for everyone

We also know that some candidates may be put off applying for jobs where they don't meet 100% of the criteria outlined in the advert, however, we encourage anybody to apply if you can demonstrate a variety of skills and experience relevant to the requirements of this role

Please let us know if you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to the application or hiring process that may better facilitate your participation

Offers of employment will be subject to a relevant level of company security vetting, which may include a criminal record check