Production Supervisor

Location: Haydock, St Helens (4 days per week in the office)

Job type: Permanent

Contracted hours: Full time – 36hrs per week (we offer an option to condense full-time hours into 4 days Monday – Thursday)

About The Role

Overview of the role

This role plays a key part in supporting the day-to-day running of our production operations, ensuring manufacturing, testing, and material control activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. The Production Supervisor will work closely with the Production Manager, Operations, and Engineering teams to help coordinate workflow across the workshop and ensure production targets are met.

This is a hands-on leadership role within a dynamic manufacturing environment, supporting a multi-disciplined team and helping to maintain strong standards across quality, safety, and delivery performance.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Supervise, support, and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the workshop manufacturing team, allocating work and ensuring production priorities and expectations are clearly understood.
• Coordinate day-to-day production activities in line with the agreed production plan, monitoring progress against workshop schedules and taking appropriate action to address delays, constraints and competing priorities.
• Monitor production performance against agreed measures, including output, schedule adherence, quality, rework and delivery, escalating risks and implementing corrective actions where appropriate.
• Provide day-to-day people leadership, including coaching, feedback, attendance monitoring, capability development and support with performance or conduct matters in line with company procedures.
• Identify team skills and training requirements and support the development of a competent, flexible and appropriately trained production workforce.
• Run or support regular workshop briefings to communicate production priorities, safety matters, quality issues, operational risks and performance.
• Promote and maintain a safe working environment, ensuring health and safety requirements, risk assessments, safe systems of work and workshop standards are understood and followed.
• Address unsafe conditions or behaviours promptly and support incident, near-miss and hazard reporting and investigation where required.
• Ensure production activities are carried out in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, procedures, work instructions and quality requirements.
• Support and oversee quality checks throughout production, ensuring defects, deviations and non-conformances are identified, recorded, contained and appropriately escalated.
• Support root-cause investigation and corrective action activities relating to production, quality and delivery issues.
• Ensure production documentation, job records, test records, material traceability and configuration-control requirements are completed accurately and on time.
• Oversee day-to-day material control within the workshop, ensuring materials are available when required, stock movements are accurately recorded, and shortages or discrepancies are identified and escalated.
• Proactively identify production constraints, resource issues, material shortages and technical problems, working with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain and other teams to minimise disruption.
• Ensure tools, equipment and workshop facilities are maintained to the required standard, reporting defects and coordinating maintenance or calibration requirements as appropriate.
• Drive good housekeeping and workplace organisation, supporting appropriate 5S or similar workplace improvement practices where applicable.
• Lead and support continuous improvement activities to improve safety, quality, productivity, workflow, waste reduction and overall production efficiency.
• Provide accurate and timely production updates, highlighting performance, risks, issues and recovery actions to the Production Manager.
• Deputise for the Production Manager on agreed day-to-day operational matters when required.

About You

What you’ll bring

We Are Looking For Candidates Who Can Demonstrate

• Experience working within a manufacturing or production environment, with previous supervisory, team leader or senior operative experience.
• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to motivate, coach and support a multi-disciplined team.
• Experience allocating and coordinating work across a production team and managing changing priorities.
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, workshop operations and quality standards.
• Experience monitoring production progress and resolving day-to-day operational issues.
• Confidence in providing feedback and supporting conversations relating to attendance, performance, capability and development.
• Ability to interpret production schedules, technical documentation, drawings, specifications and manufacturing instructions.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage priorities, resources and workload effectively.
• A practical, hands-on approach with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Good awareness of health and safety requirements within a manufacturing environment and a willingness to challenge unsafe practices.
• Strong attention to detail with an understanding of the importance of accurate production records, traceability and quality documentation.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain and other functions.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement and identifying opportunities to improve safety, quality, delivery and efficiency.

Nice to have

Although Not Essential, If You’re Also Able To Demonstrate The Following, We’ll Take That Into Account When Assessing Your Application

• Experience within electrical, control and instrumentation manufacturing environments.
• Experience using ERP, MRP, inventory or workshop management systems.
• Experience working within regulated industries such as defence, nuclear or energy.
• Knowledge of configuration control, material traceability and controlled manufacturing documentation.
• Experience supporting non-conformance, root-cause analysis and corrective action processes.
• Experience with Lean manufacturing, 5S or other continuous improvement methodologies.
• Formal qualification in engineering, manufacturing or a related technical discipline.
• Relevant supervisory, leadership or health and safety qualification.

The Person

About

We believe that recruiting is not just about finding people who can demonstrate the right skills – if you can demonstrate those we would also like to see:

• a can-do attitude with a positive approach to problem solving
• excellent attention to detail and accuracy in all areas of their work
• collaboration and teamwork
• integrity, trust and accountability
• safety and security
• client focused
• positive social value and impact
• continuous improvement

What We Offer

Ways of Working

• 36 hours full time working
• Optional 4 day working week (Monday to Thursday)
• Hybrid working for many roles (minimum of 2 days per week on site)

Time Off

• 23 days holiday, plus 3 discretionary days to cover the Christmas closedown period (plus bank holidays)
• Option to purchase up to 36 hours additional holiday
• Birthday day off (in addition to your holiday entitlement)
• 1 STEM Day per year

Other Benefits

• Healthcare cash plan – allowing you to reclaim the cost of everyday healthcare
• Employers pension contributions of 5%
• Life Assurance (Death in Service) benefit
• Cycle to work scheme
• Professional membership fees (if required for your role)
• Free onsite parking
• Free refreshments and fruit in the workplace

Next Steps

If this is the right role for you and you’re ready to join our team, please apply in writing with your CV and a covering letter giving us a little more information about yourself, your situation and why you consider yourself to be the right person for this role. We look forward to hearing from you.

Security and Vetting

We take the security requirements of our industry, client and customers very seriously so before joining the team you’ll be required to undertake a number of checks. Depending on your role, you may be subject to UK national security vetting restrictions. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and satisfy requirements for national security vetting clearance as appropriate to the role applied for.

Equal Opportunities

We believe in equality, diversity and inclusion and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch to discuss.

Confidentiality

All applications received will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence and restricted to those involved in the recruitment process.

Note to Agencies

Delkia has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Please note that any unsolicited CVs submitted will be deemed as gifted to Delkia and any terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.