Elevation Recruitment Group are working with a well-established manufacturing business in Rotherham to recruit a Night Shift Supervisor.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Team Leader or Supervisor who enjoys being hands-on within a manufacturing environment and wants to take ownership of a night shift operation.
You’ll be responsible for leading the night shift across a number of production areas, including machining, ensuring the team delivers against Safety, Quality, Delivery and Efficiency targets.
Night Shift Supervisor
Rotherham
Permanent Nights – Sunday-Thursday
Salary: £50,000
Key responsibilities of the Night Shift Supervisor include:
- Lead and supervise a team of approximately 10 employees across the night shift
- Plan, schedule and review workloads to ensure production and on-time delivery targets are achieved
- Monitor daily production performance and report against agreed KPIs
- Drive improvements across Quality, OTD and OEE
- Monitor product quality and take corrective action where required
- Champion a strong safety-first culture, ensuring H&S procedures are consistently followed
- Support continuous improvement activity across the operation
- Develop, coach and motivate employees to improve individual and team performance
- Maintain training and competency levels across the department
- Work closely with Maintenance, Planning, Quality, R&D, Purchasing and HR
We’re keen to speak to experienced Night Shift Supervisors with the following skills & experience:
- Previous experience leading or supervising a team within manufacturing
- A hands-on leadership style and the confidence to take ownership of a shift
- Experience working within machining, engineering or a production environment
- Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
- An understanding of manufacturing KPIs such as OEE, productivity, quality and on-time delivery
- Knowledge of continuous improvement, TPM or preventative maintenance would be beneficial
- Good IT skills, including Excel and production reporting
- The ability to motivate, engage and develop a team
- A positive, proactive and organised approach
- Confidence and proven ability to lead a shift unsupervised
This would suit an established Production Supervisor, Manufacturing Supervisor, Shift Supervisor or Team Leader looking for a role where they can have genuine ownership of the night shift and play a key part in improving operational performance.