Workshop Supervisor

**Workshop Supervisor**

Crosby Composites are a leading carbon fibre manufacturer working predominately in high end, luxury automotive and formula 1. Established in 1982 we have almost 40 years’ experience of innovation in this field. With IATF 16949:2016 and ISO 9001: 2015 accreditations we can support our customers with all their needs and work to the highest industry standards.

We have a passion and a drive to deliver the very best and are now continuing on our journey of growth and development through the growth of our teams, across both sites. We are a company of opportunities and are looking for individuals who want to be a part of that development to join our team.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Workshop Supervisor with previous people management skills to join our company at our Brackley site. We work to the highest standards and our Trim team are a critical part of managing this and supporting the production areas.

This is a day shift, working Monday to Friday. Core hours are 8am to 4:30pm, however flexibility in hours is essential in this role to meet the constantly changing customer and production requirements. We offer competitive rates of pay, company pension, 23 days holiday plus the bank holiday and private healthcare.

This role is responsible for the day-to-day management of the trim team, including cell leaders, and trimmers. Ensuring the department is working to meet the customer needs, the correct quality standards of work and the departmental resources are managed effectively.

In this role we require individuals who can:
**Operational Responsibilities**
- Responsible for overall execution and delivery of the production schedule for department as a whole, ensuring the schedule is completed and any issue are escalated to the appropriate individuals
- Responsible for ensuring the right level of resource/labour is in place, including weekend cover and the department can work at full capacity at all times. Working with scheduling, Production Manager, Project Managers/Engineers and HR to fulfil this
- Managing the work ensuring all tasks are completed on time, correctly to company/customer policy/procedures in an efficient manor
- Working with the team on a day to day ensuring any delays highlighted to scheduler/PM/PE and a plan is put in place with the team to catch up/cover off any delays, causing issues are rectified ASAP and a prevention plan/action is put in place
- Responsible for ensuring equipment is well checked, maintained, and serviced according to the company policy, any issues to be rectified immediately and escalated as required
- Maintain a clean, tidy, and safe working environment

**Quality and Standards**
- Responsible for ensuring all work carried out within department is completed by following set procedures as defined in work instructions and manuals.
- Responsible for ensuring all work is completed to the correct quality standard (both the customer and companies) at all times.
- Liaising with the Quality Manager to debrief quality performance, issues, failures of process, corrective actions and ensuring any actions are followed and resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner

**People Management**
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of trimmers ensuring they are aware of their individual shift requirements, the work expected of them and the company policies and procedures
- Ensuring staff appraisals, reviews, return to work interviews, performance management, disciplinary’s (with HR) and any other related employee duties are carried out when required and any issues dealt with then resolved in line with company policy and procedures.
- Training and development of all team members to allow them to meet their full potential and increase their skill set.

**Skills**:

- At least 3 years of supervisory experience.
- Experience in a similar fast-paced/high pressure manufacturing environment.
- Attention to detail
- Good communication and written skills
- Capable of listening to and following instructions
- Capable of reaching set targets within given time frame.
- Process driven and quality focused.