Press Shop Supervisor

Location: Worcestershire

The company are an established and leading manufacturer of transportation and product movement solutions supplied globally.
Pertemps are working on their behalf to recruit a Press Shop Supervisor to manage colleagues and staff within the press machine are for their busy operations in the Stourport area.

Salary – highly competitive / negotiable.

The role is Days – Monday to Friday. (7am to 4pm Mon-Thurs) & (7am to 1pm – Friday)

Main Responsibilities
Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient workplace is maintained at all times
Achieve the required company quality standards ensuring both internal and external customer satisfaction
Ensure that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved
Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications
Communicate with the teams by utilising the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement
Drive performance of team members, giving direction and feedback to aid good performance
Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to
Ensure that non-conformance is challenged and counter-measures are agreed and implemented
Motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
Through the utilisation of lean manufacturing techniques, strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis
Support the implementation of engineering changes, production trials, model change and pilot build
Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians
Promote Total Productive Maintenance procedures to further improve the availability of production
Contribute in the improvement of working procedures by constantly looking for solutions to ensure the best productivity results of machinery and ensuring compliance with procedures, operating instructions and work instructions
Ensure that internal delivery processes are adhered to support dispatch time windows
Support the resolution of Customer concerns. Identify and eliminate root cause using robust countermeasures. Sustain the corrective actions to eliminate repeat issues
Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met

Skills and experience required

Extensive experience of supervision / management of a busy press shop department.
Knowledge of lean tools and continuous improvement methods.
Strong communication and people management skills.
Knowledge of Sage 200, Microsoft Office and Excel.
Calm and methodical approach.
Good organisational skills and able to multi task.
The company offers a modern, friendly working environment, onsite parking, social company events, employee rewards portal.

The company are based in the Stourport area so is commutable from  is commutable from Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Worcester, Birmingham, Tenbury Wells, Stourbridge, Dudley.

The role is being advertised on behalf of Pertemps who operate as a recruitment agency