Production Supervisor

 Job Description

Reporting to the Production Manager to oversee the effective delivery of production processes across manufacturing

• Organise workflow and people resources to meet specifications and deadlines, ensuring to monitor production, to ensure on time delivery of materials
• Communication – both to management and employees. Liasing with other department managers to ensure production and despatch is on target. Provide a daily shift reports to the Production Manager
• Ensure all batches and documentation are complete through each stage of the process, including reworks and missings
• Motivate and enhance performance through training, cross skilling and communication.
• Ensure all team members abide by Woodland H&S policy and legislation.
• Ensure all accidents and near misses within your area are investigated, to identify root cause and implement countermeasures to prevent reoccurrence.
• Report all maintenance to management, and continue to follow up until complete
• Identify areas of improvement and provide recommendations to management, to support the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives aimed at developing a lean culture, minimising cost, and maximising productivity to ensure quality and on time delivery.
• Ensure all members of your team adhere to Company Policies and Procedures
• Deliver compliance and best practice in the key areas of people management, quality management and health & safety, ensuring all ISO standards are followed and maintained.
• Seeking to achieve right first time quality, identifying root cause of production mistakes and feed back to other departments to prevent re-occurrence.
• Responsible for full security of department premises, including full key holder duties