Site Supervisor

Site Supervisor- Kerr Timber, Annan

Permanent, Full Time 40 hours per week

Between 07:00hrs and 18:00hrs Monday – Friday (Including an early finish on a Friday)

£30,000- £35,000 PA

We are passionate about wood. We use wood to manufacture bespoke homegrown fencing, pallet and packaging timbers. Our aim is to provide high-quality timber products that will help build our customers reputation. Over the past decade, we have quadrupled our production capacity. We have achieved this by investing in modern automated sawmill equipment, whilst retaining the manual procedures necessary to provide an extensive range of bespoke timber products. We are proud of our status as a successful UK manufacturing company. All of our raw material is homegrown and all of our sales are within the UK.

We are passionate about people too. This is a new position to Kerr and we are looking for you to be able to provide guidance, support, direction and leadership to our established production departments. Your key responsibilities will be to provide effective leadership in the daily planning and performance of the site whilst maintaining the quality standard expected by our valued customers.

We have

• You reporting directly to the Operations Manager
•  An exciting role that requires mixing together your skills in production, people, quality, training and HSE
• A small and fast paced environment
• An understanding that you can’t lead and support a Production team from behind your desk

You Have

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Self-motivation in performance of duties with limited supervision
• Manufacturing experience
• Experience to motivate, coach and develop a team of operators

Production

• Plan production runs across four production departments  daily/weekly
• Manage all shift activities within your team scheduling rotas to achieve labour requirements
• Assist operators in finding the most effective methods of working
• Check production recording correctly
• Liaise with Engineers regarding breakdowns of equipment ensuring minimum downtime
• Help achieve all production daily targets
• Prepare, review and attend the morning production meeting
• Understand and analyse any downtime weekly
• Isolates problem areas and puts forward suggestions and ideas for improving existing systems and procedures.
• Seeks “Continuous Improvement” through innovation and a generation of new ideas and approaches.

People

• Communicate confidently and effectively within all areas of the business to maintain and develop positive relationships.
• Ensure your team adhere to all company rules and policies
• Assist operators in driving positive change within the business and actively promoting a one team ethic through-out
• Actively involved in recruitment, appraisal, disciplinary and absence process
• Demonstrate, through personal commitment, appropriate action and behaviour, a willingness to work flexibly in order to ensure that business targets and objectives are achieved.

Quality

• Ensure product leaving your area is within specifications
• Confirm quality control checks are undertaken and documented
• Check pack labels in Navision for discrepancy
• Ensure Quality issues are investigated and robust controls are put in place to prevent re-occurrence.

Training

•  Ensure that you have an understanding of all operator roles within your area of control whereby you can explain and demonstrate how equipment is operated
• Control training files/skills matrix/SOP’s and prepare detailed training plans
• Embrace any training requirements that the company sees fit to help develop you personally, and the business.

HSE

• Ensure cleanliness of the shift
• Carry out risk assessments
• Ensure that equipment in your charge is operated in accordance with safe working procedures
• Ensure your staff undertake documented pre-use checks of any equipment they operate
• Ensure that your staff wear all the required PPE provided
• Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are reported and assist in the investigation where necessary

You might also have

• Experience in modern lean manufacturing techniques
• Experience in a culture that has moved from reactive to proactive
• Previous machine experience, loading shovels, material handlers and skid steer

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