About This Role
This role involves planning, leading, directing, and monitoring all production and maintenance activities to maximize resource utilization. The Production Supervisor ensures finished goods meet customer demand and established production specifications and schedules, reporting to the Production Manager.
Responsibilities
- Lead the production team to ensure the successful achievement of all targets, organizing overtime in conjunction with the Plant Manager to a minimum when required
- Attend daily production meetings and address any issues raised
- Manage attendance, timekeeping, overtime, and annual leave
- Delegate and organize work to meet production targets such as output, waste, yield, efficiency
- Meet required quality and production targets whilst ensuring delivery requirements are met for customers
- Champion effective communication across the department and with other departments
- Conduct employee appraisals and probationary performance reviews
- Deal with employee grievances and disciplinary in conjunction with the Plant Manager / HR department
- Escalate any foreseen problems to the Plant Manager if deemed necessary
- Review all production / management data (such as downtime, waste, process sheets, non-conformances, on hold logs) to ensure compliance
- Ensure first off / final checks are completed online
- Monitor control of all items within the area such as production tools, probes, machine parts in line with metal procedures and other such foreign matter procedures in place
- Energy conservation / management
- Waste segregation / management
- Ensure the work area and machines are in a clean / safe / hygienic manner
- Ensure all equipment is operated in accordance with training provided and that all staff are trained and signed off
- Ensure all hygiene and safety procedures and Quality systems are adhered to at all times, ensuring adherence to CCP points and that they are kept under control at all times
- Offer suggestions / new initiatives to a changing / developing process and defining SOPs required
- Ensure all SOPs are up to date and reviewed at minimum annually or if there is a change in process
- Ensure all staff are trained in the latest version of SOPs
- Ensure all SOPs must take into account “best practice” in relation to operation, quality and health & safety
- Ensure all products are produced and packed to company / customer specification and on the ‘get it right first time’ motto
- Ensure handling and use of all ingredients / finished product targets a zero wastage approach and reduces and write off risk to the business
- Liaise with maintenance on any issues identified that need to be addressed or with the Plant Manager if required
