Production Supervisor

Job Description

Production supervisor effectively leads operations and manufacturing processes, through supervision of team members to ensure the efficient delivery of products, whilst meeting appropriate industry standards.

• Responsible for the quality of all production outputs ensuring appropriate quality standard are maintained and improved as appropriate.
• Organise workflow by assigning responsibilities and preparing schedules in conjunction or independently of the Production Manager
• Ensure that all staff in your team are trained in and adhere to relevant SOPs and EHS guidelines.
• Responsible for ensuring that all materials, including consumables are in place ahead of manufacturing requirements.
• Set daily/weekly/monthly objectives and communicate them to employees.
• Work in conjunction with the quality department to highlight and determine root causes with corrective action to issues that arise.
• Responsible for Batch Record Reviews, thus ensuring Quality Right First Time.
• Responsible for the appropriate recording, reporting and communicating of daily, weekly, monthly metrics and key performance indicators.
• Responsible for the appropriate training of all production staff, thus maintaining required staffing to meet the production demand. Report deficiencies to the Production Manager
• Highlight improvement ideas to improve processes and working conditions.
• Working in conjunction with the Production Manager establish improvement idea’s that can be both managed through production staff of with assistance from Technical Support.
• When required, work as an operator to help achieve departmental schedules and goals.
• Perform any ad hoc requests from the production manager to help the production department achieve its goals, e.g., project work, liaise with other departments, lead process improvement initiatives, create roster’s.
• Ensure the safe use of equipment and enforce strict safety guidelines and company standards.
• Report appropriately any safety issue through required documentation, work with the Health & Safety co-ordinator to maintain and improve Health & Safety in the Production environment.
• Create and complete appropriate annual Performance Reviews for all direct reports.
• Ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Comply with all policies, guidelines and regulatory requirements of Biocomposites.

• Level 4 in Management or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years manufacturing experience within Production Supervisor job role or equivalent.
• IT skills inclusive of Microsoft Office.
• Working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice.
• People management skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to take initiative within controlled working environment.
• Ability to meet deadlines with high attention to detail and well organised.

Competitive salary and benefits!

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• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking

• People who are passionate about what we do.
• People who are open minded to evolving the way we work.
• People who can work together to transform outcomes and change lives.