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Production Supervisor
Salary Negotiable +Performance Bonus
Manchester

Certain Advantage is partnering with a well-established engineering business to recruit an experienced Production Supervisor on a full time basis. In this role, you will be responsible for supervising a team of operators and apprentices – including work allocation within a metal manufacturing environment.

Relevant Experience Required
*Must be committed to working safely and comply with the 5S standards in place.
*Minimum 3 years’ experience within a production supervisor role
*Ideally from a metallic (sheet metal or machining) manufacturing environment

Main responsibilities:
*Responsible for supervising a team of operators and apprentices including work allocation.
*Working closely with the production schedulers to plan capacity and ensure that the required operations are completed on time
*Ensure that lean manufacturing operational practices are in place and that wastes [8 waste] are eliminated
*Actively resolve operational issues and ensure high levels of quality are achieved

Personal skills/qualifications:
*Be pro-active when problem solving, effective decision making, pragmatic and solution based forward thinking
*Must be highly professional when interacting internally and externally; verbally + email communication and be able to manage time and tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Essential Requirements:
Due to the nature of the work, you must have the ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC) - must meet standard UK nationality/residency eligibility requirements for site access.