Supervisor - Weekend

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality

• Compliance with product quality standards in accordance with the company quality manual and visual aids and reporting to Production Manager/Quality Department where required.
• Control process flows within the unit ensuring all Quality and H&S standards are meet.
• Ensure housekeeping is kept to the highest possible level whilst always considering excellent H&S practices.
• Maintain the SCRAP log, ensuring all scrap is logged and all corrective actions are actioned.
• Ensure all finished product leaving the production area is correctly and safely packaged ready for shipping.
• When necessary, carry out and / or assist with machine setting and fault finding.

Cost

• Monitor the unit, always looking to ‘continuously improve’ all aspects of the environment and working practices.
• Optimising labour distribution according to priorities to deliver production requirements.
• Ensure all machines are running optimally and are correct to the relevant setting documents.
• Facilitate and work with other departments within the business to improve the machine settings and running.
• Monitor, manage and reduce unit consumable costs.
• Contribute to improving the unit energy consumption.
• Reduce the waste and scrap within the unit.

Delivery

• Monitor and communicate production requirements to and from the business and team using supplied production processes (Hand over sheets, registers, skills matrix, etc.).
• Maintain planning schedule from sales order book to ensure customer demand is met ‘On Time In Full’.
• Electronic booking of stock from shifts production output.
• Managing stock levels within the unit to deliver production requirements ‘on time, in full’.
• Ensure all machines are handed over to Maintenance in a “safe state” and at the correct time.
• Ensure all tool changes are carried out efficiently to reduce machine downtime.
• Ensure all machines are handed back to production in a “ready to run” condition.
• Communication of planned or unplanned work requirements to the Production Manager and / or other departments where necessary.
• Cover operator/folk lift duties where necessary to minimize production downtime.

People Management

• Compliance with health and safety legislation and reporting any incidents via your line Manager or health and safety representative.
• Rotation of staff within the team to ensure a good balance of skill sets and cross training.
• Maintain skills matrix for your unit, identifying and acting upon skill gaps.
• Educating the team on safe systems of work and correct handling of product and machinery.
• Monitor and track all team members attendance.
• Manage team motivation.
• Ensure the team is respectful to each other.
• Ensure all production area’s are running effectively and safely.
• Ensure the site is secure when vacant.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Technical

• Experience working as a supervisor in a fast pasted, high pressured manufacturing environment.
• Forklift License.
• LEAN Six sigma Yellow Belt.
• Quality inspections and audits.
• Monitor and track production KPI’s.
• Understanding of TPM.
• Experience of setting injection moulding machines and robots.

IT Skills

• PC skills using Microsoft Office applications.

Soft Skills

• Supervisory skills including, educating and motivating a team.
• Good communication skills, verbally and in writing.
• Issue resolution – covering product, process and personnel.
• Process trouble shooting and improvement.
• Experience in basic injection moulding machine maintenance.
• Understanding of ‘Continuous Improvement’.
• Flexibility and forward thinking approach.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Good team player, coach, mentor and motivator.
• Motivated and proactive.
• Patient leader of people.