Mpeople are excited to be recruiting for our client who are a aerospace manufacturing company based in Dukinfield Cheshire for a Production Supervisor .

• Salary: In the region of £38,000 dependent on experience

Role Requirements:

The Production Supervisor is a key member of the team that is responsible for a range of responsibilities, primarily delivery and quality. The production Supervisor is also a member of the HDL senior management team (SMT].

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Delivery; ensure that the ops for all customer orders are completed on time by:
  • Clearly understanding the daily cell by cell work to list (WTL) requirements
  • Managing the resource levels (i.e re-deploy operators, use of overtime / shift patterns)
  • Completing enablement checks up front
  • Allocate tasks / jobs packs to operators based on skill set / suitability [skills matrix]
  • Ensuring that all required equipment is fully operational (OEE, TPM, serviced etc)
  • Initiate or provide guidance or training as needed
  • Motivational / positive man management of team – leading by example to maintain and strengthen the excellent working culture
  • Promote high levels of 5S levels of cleanliness and tidiness
  • Implementing company policies and rules as required
  • Escalating to the senior management team (SMT) where support is required to address any of the above (issues, risks, resource, capacity, recruitment etc)
• Quality; ensure that world class levels of quality (99%+ RFT) are achieved by:
  • Working closely with quality and production to address minor quality issues without delay or the need for MRB
  • Ensure that ‘no fault forward’ (NFF) is effective and any issues addressed
  • Attend the daily MRB meeting to carry out any required actions (specifically, actions to address a quality issue and/or raise awareness of the issue to prevent re-occurrence)
  • Identify and/or raise ‘engineering change requests’ (ECR) where improvements can be made to method of manufacture.
  • Take the lead on Continuous Improvement’ (CI) projects assigned to you.
• Ad-hoc:
  • Health and Safety (H&S): ensure that all areas of the business are safe for all employees and visitors to the site. Take the lead on initiatives to further improve H&S best practice.
  • As up as needed in the absence of the general manager (when out of the office)
  • Attend relevant WTL / MRB / CI / SMT / project start up meetings as needed
  • Support the training and recruitment requirements (new starters)
  • Security: act as factory key holder / alarm setter (rota with the GM) and provide weekend business supervision when required

Required skills/qualities/experience:

• 3+ years’ experience of supervising operators
• Delivery and quality focused
• Excellent understanding of scheduling/ MRP systems
• Fast paced environment (30+ operators to manage)
• Must have a good understanding of operational process, ideally sheet metal cutting and forming
• Training/ experience in lean, 5S, CL essential
• H&S awareness/ advocate

Mpeople Recruitment Ltd are an employment agency acting on behalf of our clients.

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