Orbia
Supervisor, Manufacturing Production
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Supervisor, Manufacturing Production
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in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.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
Ensure compliance with Health & Safety Policy and procedures. Ensure all production and process recording systems are completed accurately. Fully prepared for Daily Review meeting, ensuring that issues are being addressed by the appropriate support function. Ensure absence reporting and RTW’s are being done as required. Use capability, disciplinary and attendance procedures to manage non-conformance. To be continually focussed on cost reduction by efficiency improvement and investment opportunity. As part of the management team proactively support the improvement of health and safety performance both within the department and across the site. Being proactive – checking and auditing to ensure procedures are being followed. To develop individuals and teams to achieve their maximum potential. To work as a member of the management team towards good industrial relations across the site Undertake Employee reviews, Team Briefs or similar as and when required. To regularly communicate both formally and informally with employees the aims, objectives and relevant performance indicators of the Company To keep the Production Manager and Production Supervisors updated on the status of key priority items. Manage the shift production operation across 5 Departments - Mixing, Extrusion, Injection Moulding, Universal Cells, and Assembly Assume site responsibility at weekends – as the most senior person on-site. Full time on-site at Chippenham.
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Sound knowledge of production processes including planning/scheduling of machines, tooling, and labour. Broad knowledge of related and relevant health and safety legislation. Production Supervisor/ Management experience IT literate to use Microsoft Office products. Practical knowledge of Continuous Improvement methodology and problem-solving techniques. EHS legislation quality processes/procedures – IPPC, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 Coaching and mentoring for improved performance. Essential – Basic secondary school education Desirable - ILM Level 3 or equivalent IOSH/NEBOSH Qualification
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 wish 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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