production manager Portsmouth, South East England, England
Job description
At EE glass, we pride ourselves on our high-quality product and service and continuously strive to ensure our products are made in the most environmental way.
With our continuous investment in state-of-the-art equipment, our production facilities can supply our customers with the latest in glass technologies.
We are a highly responsive business that understands some jobs need a very quick turn-around. We do everything we can to help our customers with those urgent requirements.
As a business we invest in our team and value all our team members.
Your role as a supervisor is to understand our vision and Core values and help ensure daily, we strive to maintain these values.
Responsibilities:
Health & Safety
- Demonstrate correct use of PPE and always follow relevant H & S procedures and requirements.
- Be responsible for your working environment and take a pro-active approach in maintaining good standards of safety.
- Be accountable for actions and omissions in your area.
- Monitor staff for compliance, wellbeing, and reporting. Listen to and engage positively with staff and any issues you may have.
- Co-operate fully with any investigations or inspections.
- Bring to management's attention any conflict between H & S and production targets and/or process methods. Understand that a blind insistence on or rejection of rules does not promote problem solving, engagement or respect.
- Ensure all accident/incident reports are entered into the accident book. Complete and encourage others to complete the Near Miss forms. Fully co-operate with any accident/incident investigations.
- Maintain your area of responsibility in a clean and tidy manner.
Quality
- Demonstrate high standards of quality at all times.
- Be responsible for your working environment and take a pro-active approach in maintaining good standards of quality.
- Be accountable for actions and omissions in your area.
- Monitor staff for compliance. Listen to and engage positively with staff and any issues you may have.
- Bring to management's attention any conflict between Quality and production targets and/or process methods.
- Ensure all in-process checks are being done. Take corrective action as soon as possible when product is identified as not being meeting correct standards.
- Ensure all testing is done accurately and recorded on appropriate forms. Ensure all testing failures are reported to management immediately.
- Co-operate fully with any investigations or inspections.
- Maintain your area of responsibility in a clean and tidy manner.
Production Operation
- Be responsible for their area and take a pro-active approach in ensuring the smooth flow of work through their section.
- Ensure that the work is completed in the correct sequence and that any reworks are completed timely to avoid having any impact on deliveries and customers.
- Aim to achieve production targets set in conjunction with managers.
- Regularly reviewing the machinery, processes and flow and recommending improvements that can be made to increase production levels.
- Monitor housekeeping in their areas of responsibility
Team Development
- Help support continuous development of all members of your team and take a pro-active approach to ensuring that any training is completed and documented.
- Liaise with the production manager on necessary training for your team, helping ensure the skills mix of your team enables flexibility to help cover absences and support continuous production.
- Aim to achieve training and development targets set in conjunction with managers.
- Completing performance reviews for your team members in a timely fashion. Ensuring they accurately reflect your team members skills and abilities and how they fit in with the rest of the team.
Skills and experience:
- Production supervisor experience within manufacturing/production, previous glass production experience would be advantageous.
- In-depth knowledge of manufacturing product
- People management
- General H&S and quality awareness
- Must be able to read and interpret drawings and specifications.
- Highly organised, self-motivated with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
- Computer literate for production planning and reporting
Pay: Pay depending on experience.
Hours: 06:00am – 14:45pm. 40 hours per week, inclusive of a 15-minute tea break and a 30-minute lunch break.
If you are interested in applying for the position, please send a covering letter including salary expectation, key skills, and experience alongside your CV.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £29,411.20-£32,489.60 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
