Production Supervisor

**Empowering careers at ARJO**

**At Arjo, we know what moves us. We go above and beyond for people facing mobility challenges. We take every opportunity to work and grow as one team and take pride in sharing our knowledge and experience. Does that sound like something that moves you too?**

**This could be your opportunity to begin a challenging and rewarding career in a healthcare company that empowers movement for people with mobility challenges.**

**Position**: Production Supervisor

**Location**: Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, Cardiff, UK (A member of the Arjo family)

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Shift Pattern**: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week

**Responsibilities**:
**1. Output**
- Produce product as required by the Master Production Schedule (MPS).
- Anticipate shortfalls in the plan and take appropriate measures to correct them, bringing all issues to the attention of the production manager.
- Ensure product is manufactured to the correct specification as defined in the Production Build documentation

**2. Product Build **Files (PBF).**
- Ensure the PBF’s are kept up to date and in good order.
- Create and maintain production work in progress monitoring records on a daily basis to measure throughput of product highlighting and identifying any shortfalls and performance issues.
- Maintain a high standard of housekeeping across all areas of production.

**3. Personnel**
- Organise the available production workforce and ensure optimum resource utilization.
- Maintain discipline within the Production environment
- Implement and follow the disciplinary/grievance policies and procedures making sure all employees are treated consistently and follow them.
- Carry out return to work interviews as necessary and monitor time, attendance and punctuality, feeding this information back to employees.
- Monitor performance and carry out discussion forms where poor performance is identified.
- Provide positive feedback to production operators where good performance is identified.
- Highlight employees’ skills and shortfalls, raising any training requests as necessary.
- Ensure trainings records and requests are raised, maintain and kept up to date.
- Develop a multi-skilled, flexible and efficient workforce via coaching or mentoring programmes.
- Encourage the workforce to take ownership to identify opportunities for improvement and feedback to the relevant departments/manager.
- Carry out recruitment selection and on-boarding process ensuring the induction documentation of new employees is carried out, within the allocated time frame.
- Carry out annual performance appraisals for all assigned production employees making sure they are completed within the allotted time frame. Ensuring the meeting is motivational, encouraging good practices and empowering behaviour. Identify training requirements are identified, recorded and actioned in line with SOP16.
- Deliver any information or communication deemed relevant
- Responsible for own training and development, identifying courses to the Production Manager ensuring your personal growth and further progression.

**4. Reporting**
- Daily reporting to the Production Manager on issues that are having a direct impact on production output.
- Any personnel, resource, material and equipment issues as and when they arise
- Monthly reporting on back MPS, identifying all work in progress status.
- Reporting any man management issues
- Ad hoc reporting as and when required

**5. Other**
- Deputies for Production Manager during times of absence, reporting any information deemed necessary to the Manufacturing Director.
- Ensure that all activities conform to Health and Safety regulation requirement
- Ensure production employees adhere to Health & Safety instructions following relevant policy at all times.
- All Sop’s are followed where necessary
- Ensue all PPE is in good supply and good condition, making sure employees follow the guidelines

**6**.** Quality System Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Ensure the company Quality system/procedures are adhered to at all times

**Knowledge/Skills/Experience**:
**Essential**
- You should be trained in supervisory skills and have at least 3 years working experience as a supervisor.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience within a production environment.
- Have and can demonstrate experience of managing a large team of people dealing with complex man management issues
- Experience of conducting disciplinary, grievance performance and annual appraisal meetings
- A strong working knowledge of Microsoft office systems, must include excel, word, PowerPoint and outlook
- Ability to write, report, present, in English language at all levels
- Full UK driving license.
- Must have a knowledge of health & safety

**Desirable**
- Knowledge of Quality systems as required in medical device manufacture.
- Must have a knowledge of business impact on the environment
- A knowledge of MRP based systems as applied to batch manufacture.
- Previous experience of