Production Supervisor - Central Employment Agency (North East) Limited : Job Details

Central Employment Commercial team are delighted to be working as a retained recruitment partner to a leading Sports eCommerce personalisation, licencing and print specialist, as they look to recruit a Production Supervisor operating from their state-of-the-art of facility in Macclesfield.

Up to £33,000 DOE + benefits, Mon-Fri 0700-1600, offering an immediate interview and start date.

The individual is responsible for managing and coordinating the production floor, managing around 15-20 FTE.

Duties

• Responsible for overseeing production processes within the organisation.
• Creating daily weekly and monthly production schedules.
• Coordinating production schedules, ensuring efficient use of resource and maintaining high quality standards
• Striving to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all production lines.
• Managing a team of production staff, implementing process improvements and contributing to the overall success of the business
• Ensuring the team members follow procedures and comply with quality requirements.
• Organizing workflow to meet the production schedule as per specific deadlines.
• Monitor, evaluate and document performance – Creating production performance report.
• Communicating any problems or obstacles to senior management
• Ensure the production target level is achieved daily
• Taking part in the daily production briefings

• To liaise with other personnel and departments to ensure the smooth running of the whole of operations on site.
• Effectively and efficiently manage the production of the required daily/weekly/monthly targets in line with customer specifications, meeting quality and delivery expectations, minimising costs where possible and ensure the required best working practices are always maintained.
• Develop production plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

     Other Duties might include:

• Providing tech packs to the production team before commencement of the job
• Open and close facilities as required.
• Coordinating the approval process of samples and following through the process
• Organise Monthly stock take of heat transfer.
• Provision of work for all production processes.
• Stock control of consumables
• Monitoring progress of the production and making any changes required within production processes to meet the deadlines.
• Ensuring the quality of the finished product is to the highest quality.

Leadership

• Working with the Production Manager and Operations Director to keep the business always moving forward and running at full speed.
• Contributing to Production succession planning into performance development plans to support future growth
• Directing staff development, welfare and rewards including annual objectives, appraisals, training needs and mentoring
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement
• Monitoring productivity rates, standards, and quality control
• Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of staff.
• Manage, coach, and develop a high performing Production team that meets agreed objectives, and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements.