Production Supervisor

**Scottish Leather Group**

Scottish Leather Group Limited is the largest manufacturer of leather in the United Kingdom employing over 750 employees globally, across 7 locations including Scotland, China, Germany, Mexico and the USA. We are proud of our heritage as a long-standing Scottish manufacturer, which is steeped in tradition, and we have prospered through the years by continuously looking forward by adopting best in class manufacturing principles.

Partnering with hundreds of prestigious brands in more than 60 countries, our vision is to be the most successful and respected group of leather manufacturing companies in the world and we are passionate about leading sustainable manufacturing practices, continuous innovation and outstanding service.

The Group is long established with combined experience in tanning and finishing leather of over 500 years. Our specialist leathers are produced for a wide range of industries including automotive, aviation, bus and coach, rail, furniture and custom projects. Our customers include Aston Martin, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Ford, Emirates Airlines, Boeing and Philips.

The philosophy of Scottish Leather Group is a desire to establish the highest industry standards for quality, innovation, value, service and care for the environment whilst upholding our Company values; Integrity, Honesty, Fairness and Respect.

**Role purpose**:
The role of the Supervisor (Select & Measure) is to assist the Production Manager (Finish and Despatch) in ensuring the safe and operational efficiency of day to day operations which guarantees optimum performance, achieving all relevant KPI’s, and fulfil customer demands whilst ensuring all company procedures and compliances (both internal and external) are fully met. The Supervisor will also work, in conjunction with the Production Manager (Finish and Despatch), on a variety of projects related to ongoing organisational improvements including, but not limited to, Health and Safety, Quality, Workplace Organisation, Environmental and Sustainability.

**Key accountabilities**:

- Embed H&S culture of zero tolerance ensuring the policy is fully understood, owned and implemented by every individual - ensuring machine operators have set up machines correctly and all pre-shift safety checks have been carried out and recorded
- Promote the use of TCards for near miss and hazard reporting
- ensuring appropriate feedback and recognition to operators.
- Implement the actions identified through internal and external audits (including health & safety and quality inspections) and ensure they are completed in a timely manner
- Manage all internal and external regulatory compliances and guidelines as set out by health & safety, quality and environmental requirements
- Ensure all prescribed quality checks are carried out by machine operators, to ensure product quality is not compromised
- Live and breathe workplace organisation ensuring the factory is always customer ready.
- Supervise to execute the production plan and recovery plans, communicating and highlighting any risk to OTIF to Production Manager at earliest opportunity
- Takes ownership of POD information recording monitoring and improving KPIs
- Create an open, honest, and empowering culture of communications between management and factory employees, always aligned to our core values.
- Deliver optimum results by creating a can-do attitude through motivating and encouraging employees
- The performance management of team leaders and operators required with the support of HR, e.g. absence management, lateness, conduct or capability, identifying training opportunities.
- Handling holiday / absence requests and identifying any labour shortages to the Production Manager
- Liaising with Maintenance Department to ensure plant and machinery is kept in full working order, ensuring job requests are logged on Maintain
- Recruitment and selection of staff when required with the support of HR and training.

**Experience Desired**
- Excellent supervisory skills - demonstrating practical leadership in people, product process and plant.
- Experience in a similar role - preferably in a manufacturing/industrial setting with a good understanding of operational metrics and drivers and the use of KPIs to manage an operation
- Experience of meeting and exceeding health and safety/environmental/ workplace organisation requirements
- Demonstrable supervisory and line management skills with a coaching style that gets the best out of people, focused on collaboration and continual improvement
- Commercial awareness and logistics skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Lean manufacturing skills in eliminating wastes for the process.

**Key Competencies Required**

**Role Model**
- Being an exemplary role model and taking the lead in promoting and living our values
- Establishes norms of behaviour (from the shadow he/she casts) for the team and takes appropriate actions if they are broken

**Develop Yourself**
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