Supervisor Manufacturing Production Lead

Skelmersdale, Lancashire, United Kingdom

https://www.mncjobs.co.uk/company/manpower

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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:

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