AddressJob Title:Production SupervisorMilitary Helmets
Location: Coventry, UK
Core Hours: 08:00-16:35 (MonThu) 08:00-15:10 (Fri).
Vacancy Type: Full-time, Permanent and On-site
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum (subject to experience)
JOB SUMMARY
Are you a proactive and motivated Production Supervisor seeking a new opportunity to make a meaningful impact? If you're passionate about safeguarding lives and ready to take on a dynamic role, we invite you to read further!
At NP Aerospace, the Production Supervisor serves as a cornerstone, providing decisive leadership and guidance to our Team Leaders and Cell Leads.
In this key position, you will be responsibility for ensuring the successful execution of our monthly sales forecast. This entails overseeing the production process to ensure that both established products and ongoing development projects are delivered with precision: on budget, on schedule, and meeting our rigorous quality standards.
With a primary focus on the production of our world-renowned combat helmets, you will lead efforts to maintain excellence in manufacturing, driving efficiency, and upholding the highest levels of quality assurance.
Do you want to know more about NPA? Visit our LinkedIn page and NPA Careers Page to find out more about us!
BENEFITS
- Discretionary Half Year Bonuses
- Holidays 25 days + 8 Bank Holidays + Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Two weeks paid leave for Reservists and Cadets to attend yearly training/camp
- Paid leave for employees who are Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs)
- Pension ER/EE 3%/5% = 8% combined
- Life Cover 3 x base salary
- BHSF Cash Healthcare Plan
Please note: If successful, you will be required to sign the Official Secrets Act and successfully pass the necessary checks before you can begin your employment with NP Aerospace.
JOB DUTIES
- Deliver the monthly sales forecast, ensuring that adequate and appropriate resources are in place to meet the production schedule and avoid overtime.
- Daily, through KPIs at the daily shop floor whiteboard meetings and other reporting mechanisms, continuously promote and drive excellence in outputs, ensuring products and development activities are delivered on time, cost, performance, and to the right levels of quality throughout the 3-shift 7 days per week production team.
- Lead the manufacturing teams through personal example and professional competence, setting and maintaining the highest standards using the appropriate professional and company tools to promote excellent cross functional performance.
- Manage and interface with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimum performance, mitigate risks, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and performance.
- Be responsible for plant and equipment availability, performance, and utilisation, championing process improvements, equipment husbandry, and, via internal stakeholders, routine preventative maintenance, and repairs.
- Act as a role model for championing our Health & Safety Programme and influencing these behaviours to improve all safety measures.
- Support customer visits and manufacturing readiness reviews, including facility specification and implementation, process design and work balance, standard ops creation, PFMEA completion, process development, and training.
- Support cross-functional Kaizen events to support process improvements, single-piece flow, and cost reduction initiatives.
- Apply a lean management approach to manufacturing and introduce, where necessary, lean methodologies and tools to continuously improve efficiency.
- Improve and champion continued improvement in operator skills within the manufacturing team at both a process and product level.
- Undertake line management of multiple direct reports and indirect line management of multiple staff working 7 days a week across 3 shifts.
- Although primarily a day-shift presence is required, a willingness to visit and be seen on site during all shifts at times is essential.
The above statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required.
CRITICAL OUTPUTS AND ACHIEVEMENT REQUIRED
- Meet or exceed sales forecasts on time, on cost and on quality.
- Maintain year-on-year cost reductions in line with business objectives.
- Standards set and maintained (5S, Lean Audit, SOPs, MIs, Control Plans)
- Up-to-date work bookings
- Labour Recovery: Recovery > 95% of direct costs incurred.
- Plan and execute monthly Kaizen events with results clearly communicated to the business.
- Reduce stock in production areas to < 4 stock days.
- Skills coverage at process and product level > 95%
- Right First Time > 97%
- Master Production Schedule achievement > 97%
EXPERIENCE
This candidate will be:
- An experienced and highly motivated leader.
- An experienced manufacturing Production Supervisor with relevant experience across a variety of operational environments with experience of multiple manufacturing and assembly processes and facilities.
- Wholly comfortable with lean concepts and methodologies and can tangibly demonstrate appropriate application in given scenarios. Experience managing production operations that deliver products and development activities to cost, on time, and to the right levels of quality.
- Fully familiar with the role of a leader and mentor to experienced staff such as team leaders and cell leaders.
- Able to demonstrate proven experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally medium to high volume production, and ideally in experience in the aerospace, automotive, defence industries, or similar industries.
- Preferably able to demonstrate experience in press moulding and CNC machining.
- Fluent in the use of practical problem-solving methodologies (5 whys, ishikawa, 8D, etc.)
- Able to communicate effectively, in writing, verbally, and via standard IT applications, and actively drive high levels of contribution and accountability amongst the team.
- Be fully conversant with all forms of IT and the Microsoft Office suite of programmes, with intermediate-level Excel knowledge.
WHAT DO WE DO AT NP AEROSPACE?
NP Aerospace is a global leader in armour technology manufacturing and vehicle integration, delivering high-performance, lifesaving solutions for the defence and security industry.
Our mission is to improve and protect lives, and our vision is to be a leading provider of innovative solutions that solve our customers' complex challenges. Our values - Respect, Collaboration, Integrity, and Dedication form the bedrock of our culture.
Our extensive range of combat-proven body armour, from ballistic helmets, plates, and shields to bomb disposal suits, highlights some of the most advanced composite materials. With a team of R&D engineers working on next-generation solutions, we also excel in highly engineered vehicle systems and armour platforms used by some of the worlds largest defence organisations.
Founded in 1926, NP Aerospace has served the defence industry for over 40 years, evolving into an agile and diverse company. Our Business Development team is expanding both in the UK and North America.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: NP Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, colour, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We are also fully committed to supporting the Defence Community and actively advertise roles on Defence specific platforms such as CTP, Force Families, Forces Employment Charity, and Veterans Job Board.
Data Privacy: NP Aerospace respects the privacy of all applicants. Personal information provided during the application process will be treated in accordance with our privacy policy and applicable data protection laws.
