Production Supervisor

Newport
4 weeks ago
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Role: Production Supervisor

Location: Newport

Salary: £37,000 - £45,000

Monday – Friday (early finish on Friday)

Permanent Position

This is an excellent opportunity for a Production Supervisor to join a market leading engineering company based in Newport.

We are looking to recruit a Production Supervisor to oversee the selection, training, management, and motivation of all staff on the factory floor, ensuring that production operations are carried out as efficiently as possible

Main responsibilities:

To ensure that all production tasks are being carried out correctly and efficiently, by providing advice where the job requirements are unclear and liaising with department heads on any holds ups / issues
To be able to prioritise and schedule workloads and manpower according to customer delivery requirements
To supervise and manage work being carried out by the production team. Ensuring that discipline issues are dealt with promptly fair and consistent
To ensure the factory floor is clean, tidy, presentable and well organised
To ensure that all production maintenance activities are carried out at the relevant intervals and that any problem reported to the maintenance department using the correct paperwork
To ensure training records are kept up to date and a training plan is in place and adhered to
To ensure SOP / procedures are being followed and all necessary paperwork is used and filled in correctly
In Production Manager’s absence have overall authority on production matters, also ensuring that all production matters are dealt with and work with other departments to resolve customer issues.
To review resources in line with sales numbers and oversee recruitment
To manage the powder consumable storage and acquisition (including stock management and stocktaking)
To manage the Sub-contract process liaising with suppliers on delivery dates and monitor in line with customer’s delivery date
Become familiar with the “check-work-check” process and be committed to a “right first time” approach to all tasks carried out
Ensure a high level of communication to employees, managers & colleagues
Qualifications, experience and skills:

Previous experience in a Production Supervisor position within engineering (aerospace/automotive/defence/medical ideally)
Thermal Spray experience is advantageous
Qualifications, experience and skills:

Electrical qualification is essential together with mechanical aptitude.
Flexibility to working hours to react to breakdowns/contractor supervision etc.
Excellent communication skills
The ability to work on your own and with others, an enthusiastic team player
Salary / package:

Pension - match contribution from 4% - 10%
Life Assurance - 2 x annual salary rising to 4 x if join Company pension
Free parking on all sites
Free refreshments provided
An entitlement to full pay whilst off sick for a limited number of days (in addition to your statutory sick pay entitlement)
25 days holiday plus national holidays
For further details, please contact Nick Sollis – (phone number removed) or email your cv (url removed)

Omega Resource Group are an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.

We are always seeking Engineering Staff, Senior Managers, Skilled and Semi-Skilled Machinists, Mechanical Fitters, Electrical Fitters, Quality Engineers, Materials Science Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Electronics Engineers, Test Technicians, Technical Authors and Laboratory Technicians to name but a few.

For details of other opportunities available within your chosen field please visit our website (url removed)

Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors

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