Production Supervisor

Location:

Haydock, St Helens (4 days per week in the office)

Job type:
Permanent / Temporary / FTC / Contract etc.

Contracted hours:
Full time – 36hrs per week (we offer an option to condense full time hours into 4 days Monday – Thursday)

This role plays a key part in supporting the day-to-day running of our production operations, ensuring manufacturing, testing, and material control activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. The Production Supervisor will work closely with the Production Manager, Operations, and Engineering teams to help coordinate workflow across the workshop and ensure production targets are met.

This is a hands‑on leadership role within a dynamic manufacturing environment, supporting a multi-disciplined team and helping to maintain strong standards across quality, safety, and delivery performance.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and supporting the workshop manufacturing team and their day-to-day workload.
• Assisting with production planning, progress tracking, and reporting against workshop schedules.
• Supporting the implementation and maintenance of production processes, procedures, and quality standards across manufacturing and testing activities.
• Helping to maintain a safe working environment, ensuring health & safety procedures are followed and the workshop remains well organised.
• Supporting material control and inventory processes, including tracking stock and assisting with workshop systems.
• Assisting with quality checks during different stages of production to help identify defects, deviations, or improvements.

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience working in a manufacturing or production environment, ideally in a supervisory or senior operative role.
• Strong team leadership skills with the ability to motivate and support others.
• Good understanding of production processes, quality standards, and workshop operations.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage priorities and workload effectively.
• A practical, hands‑on approach with good problem‑solving ability.
• Awareness of health & safety practices within a manufacturing environment.

Although not essential, if you’re also able to demonstrate the following, we’ll take that into account when assessing your application:

• Experience with in electrical, control, and instrumentation manufacturing environments.
• Exposure to inventory or workshop management systems.
• Experience working in regulated industries such as defence, nuclear, or energy.
• Formal qualification in engineering or a related technical discipline.

We believe that recruiting is not just about finding people who can demonstrate the right skills – if you can demonstrate those we would also like to see:

• a can-do attitude with a positive approach to problem solving
• excellent attention to detail and accuracy in all areas of their work

application of our core values in your everyday working life:

• collaboration and teamwork
• integrity, trust and accountability
• safety and security
• client focused
• positive social value and impact
• continuous improvement

In return, you’ll enjoy the following benefits:

• 36 hours full time working
• Optional 4 day working week (Monday to Thursday)
• Hybrid working for many roles (minimum of 2 days per week on site)

• 23 days holiday, plus 3 discretionary days to cover the Christmas closedown period (plus bank holidays)
• Option to purchase up to 36 hours additional holiday
• Birthday day off (in addition to your holiday entitlement)
• 1 STEM Day per year

• Healthcare cash plan – allowing you to reclaim the cost of everyday…