Workshop Supervisor

**Business Contribution**:
Support the Operations Supervisor & extended team in the execution of the operational activities within the facility. Ensuring on-time delivery of products and services to the required quality, cost, and safety standards. Help establish a close working relationship with all site employees to promote a strong team environment all working to the same goals.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead & motivate the workshop staff on daily & weekly objectives by effectively communicating priorities & updates to issues affecting workshop operations. Run the morning meeting setting the tone for the day/week ahead.
- Act as the conduit between the workshop team and operations teams ensuring issues affecting quality, cost & delivery are communicated & escalated where required
- Support the sites continuous improvement plan through improvement projects, daily/weekly 5S huddles & the sites observation tool
- Manage the calibration/training system ensuring that all assets are within calibration & associated training for personnel is updated and maintained
- Liaise with on-site contractors ensuring permits are completed and on-site team are aware of contractor movements & scope of work
- Lead facility maintenance on site ensuring issues raised are adequately dealt with in a timely manner
- Promote & encourage the use of various data capturing tools to strengthen our position when presenting data to senior leadership (OSHENS, MES, Qualytize etc.)
- Attend & participate in monthly health & safety committee meetings ensuring a safety first & stop-work culture is adopted by everyone on site
- Support projects on an adhoc basis, ensuring regular progress reports are sent & issues are raised as they appear, this will involve communicating with multiple functions (Operations, Engineering, Quality etc.)
- Continually drive the standard in service from goods inward to goods outward to be the best it can possibly be by challenging the status quo & involving the team in improvement initiatives
- When required openly discuss development opportunities for the members of the team, how can we improve, do things differently, be more efficient.
- Perform annual performance reviews with direct reports ensuring that throughout the year expectations are clear and performance to goals is tracked
- Build product knowledge by actively supporting root-cause-investigations and to plan when required
- Manage direct reports holiday & absence ensuring the refurb of assets can be executed to required timescales
- Support the Operations Supervisor in ensuring key skills are transferred around the team so that in the event of holidays & absence bottlenecks do not appear
- Where required provide Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to the senior leadership team
- At all times ensure the performance of the team is in keeping with the overall vision of the site (behavior, output & deliverables)

**Required Capabilities**:

- Highly motivated and proactive approach to leadership
- Experience in team development & individual performance management
- Demonstrated ability in a mechanical discipline or role
- Leadership experience in a reactive service/production/engineering environment
- Previous experience in planning and scheduling via MRP
- IT competence ideally Oracle ASCP/MRP and Microsoft Office
- Ability to report progress/status both internally and externally
- Experience in site maintenance or facility up-keep
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with other departments
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities within tight timelines
- Experience with LEAN (LEAD) tools and techniques
- Valid clean driving license

**Required Skills**:
Required Experience