Production Supervisor (Machining)

MTrec Ltd Technical; Bishop Auckland; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

MTrec's new career opportunity

As a Production Supervisor, you will manage the machine shop to maximise output with a key focus on proactively driving and implementing continuous improvement in a precision engineering manufacturing environment.

If you have supervised within a machining environment, then this position could be ideal for you.

The job you'll do

1. Lead, motivate and develop your team to achieve business goals, ensuring work standards are met and aligned with company policies and procedures.
2. Create a process driven culture and remove variation supporting achievement of short and medium-term goals.
3. Communicate and implement company policies, procedures and practices.
4. Drive the Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People (SQCDP) culture.
5. Implement and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
6. Lead daily SQCDP cell meetings.
7. Proactive management of absence and performance issues.
8. Ensure full compliance to all business standards (H&S, quality and site performance).
9. Ensure incidents/accidents are captured, reported and contained with corrective actions.
10. Support in delivering business objectives.
11. Provide guidance and feedback to team members, setting clear expectations.
12. Identify poor performance and manage through performance improvement plans.
13. Ensure training and development needs are identified and met.
14. Contain faults and put corrective actions in place.
15. Understand and drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) across the site.
16. Ensure constructive handover and capture of all issues is completed.
17. Practice and maintain 5S standards.
18. Ensure quality systems and procedures are being adhered to i.e. first and last off inspections, in-process checks, Statistical Process Control (SPC) data and completion of documentation.
19. Liaise with production engineers to jig and fixture design and routing amendments to ensure processes are capable of achieving drawing tolerances.
20. Support with amendments to work lists on a daily basis.
21. Promote and ensure high standards of quality at all times.
22. Drive, implement and support continuous improvements ensuring improvements are acted upon.
23. Troubleshoot manufacturing problems to achieve optimal manufacturing outcomes.
24. Collate and report data to identify problem areas.
25. Ensure that you work in a safe manner and comply with the British Engines Group Health, Safety and Environmental Policy.

About You

1. To apply, we ask that you are an experienced Production Supervisor with significant experience working in a fast-paced engineering/manufacturing environment, ideally in high precision machining. You will have experience managing teams in manufacturing processes, including staffing levels and machine capacity planning.
2. You will be experienced in implementing and maintaining HSE standards and able to demonstrate people management to motivate and develop your team.
3. We are looking for someone who is a strong leader, results orientated, with the ability to plan and deliver against production deadlines. If you can demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive, positive and enthusiastic approach to adopt and implement new ideas and processes, we would love to hear from you.
4. NEBOSH general certificate and six-sigma green belt qualification would be advantageous.
5. This position will be on a full-time, permanent basis, and working day shift hours of 38.75 per week.

The Rewards and the Benefits

• Wellbeing app (Employee Assistance Program)
• Holiday buy and sell
• Car scheme
• Competitive pay
• Enhanced pension
• Training and development