Production Supervisor

2 weeks ago


Chippenham, United Kingdom Orbia Full time

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments


We are currently looking for a Production Supervisor to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

To manage the day-day production activities in area of responsibility. This includes health & safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people. To coach and develop individual team members to realise their full potential. To seek opportunities to reduce cost, and to make processes safer and more robust. Manage health & safety. Ensure compliance with all Orbia HSE policy and procedures in own area and across site. Use capability, disciplinary and attendance procedures to manage non-conformance. Reporting (written/verbal) on department KPI performance (daily/weekly/monthly). Ensure production and process recording systems are completed accurately. Ensure any issues are being addressed by the appropriate support function. Use coaching and mentoring to develop individuals and teams to achieve their maximum potential. Use continuous improvement and problem-solving techniques to reduce cost, and to make processes safer and more robust. Being proactive – checking/auditing to ensure procedures are being followed. Undertake employee reviews, team briefs or similar as required. Regularly communicate both formally and informally with employees, the aims, objectives and relevant KPI’s

The profile

Basic secondary education is required. ILM level 3 or equivalent is desirable. Production/Operations Supervisor/Management experience. Ideally, across a 24/7 operation. IOSH / NEBOSH qualification. Practical experience of problem-solving techniques, Lean-Six-Sigma/Continuous Improvement. General knowledge of plastic injection moulding and extrusion processes is advantageous but not essential. Reporting on lagging and leading KPI’s. IT literate to use Microsoft Office products. SAP knowledge advantageous. EHS legislation quality processes/procedures – IPPC, ISO-9001, ISO-14001, ISO 45001

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin) Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly with to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.


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