Manufacturing Supervisor

Our client is seeking an experienced Manufacturing Supervisor to work on a full time and permanent basis in the Blackwood area.

Role Purpose
Primarily accountable for the day to day management of output and for ensuring effective and efficient performance of team members within the required parameters of Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Cost.

Key responsibilities:
•Overall Responsibility for the running of the Cell
•Planning working for the Cell

Managing hours worked
•Reporting cell performance
•Ensuring training needs are identified
•Liaising with other Team Leaders (internal customers/suppliers)
•Assist in pay rate discussions as required
•Communicate Company information to team members
•Highlight inadequate or unclear manufacturing/engineering information
•Ensure quality standards and factory housekeeping is of the highest standard
•Ensure defective work is not passed from the Cell except where identified and agreed

Team and individual management of staff in accordance with HSS policy and procedure;
•First line discipline of timekeeping/attendance
•Ordering materials as required
•Quality of workmanship
•Ensuring a safe working environment within the health and safety guidelines
•Team members performance appraisals
•Working procedures within their area
•Ensuring correct completion and sign off of test reports
•Ensuring all equipment is within calibration

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Personal Attributes
•Ability to motivate
•Leadership skills
•The ability to meet the expectation of both internal and external customer, clients and suppliers
through a sound understanding of their requirements, being responsive to their needs and
exceeding their requirements
•The ability to think through and adopt a clear, sensible approach to planning, prioritising and
organising, tasks and activities to meet deadlines and targets.
•The ability to use a wide range of approaches to solving problems.
•The ability to clearly understand and express information and ideas using relevant methods and
techniques
•The ability to actively encourage team working whilst recognising that all individuals are members
of a bigger team
•The ability to proactively develop competencies to help improve and realise the potential self and
others with measurable benefits for individuals, the team/department and the Company
•Adopts a proactive approach to their work, is resilient under pressure, maintains a clear vision
and possesses a strong results orientation
•The ability to seek opportunities for beneficial change, persuades others of the benefits and
encourages and enables others to adapt to change

Acorn Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment