Production Supervisor - Fabrication

Kane Group are an established, and successful multi-disciplinary building-services solution contractor, with our Head Office based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

We're an innovative, forward-thinking company with continued steady growth serving residential, hospitality, education, commercial and healthcare sectors with offices in Northern Ireland, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and the Republic of Ireland.

We are seeking a Production Supervisor - Fabrication based in Banbridge to be part of our growing team.

| KEY RESPONSIBILITIES |

• Supervising a team of general and skilled operatives, fabricators, welders and spray painters in a busy workshop environment.
• Take responsibility for driving a Health and Safety culture throughout the workshop including conducting daily team briefings, weekly toolbox talks and attending bi-weekly Health & Safety meetings.
• Delegate tasks amongst the team as per production requirements.
• Reviewing fabrication drawings in order to:
• produce cutting lists before passing to workshop floor to action.
• create a pick list for stores to ensure kit forming of materials is being carried out ahead of production and in line with the production schedule.
• Working to a weekly planner ensuring dispatch deadlines are met.
• Working closely with the QA team member assigned to the fabrication area to ensure fabricated products are in line with drawings, inspections are completed and meet required standards.
• Preparing for and leading daily production meetings.
• Escalate any issues that impact health and safety, production or quality to the Production Manager and work to resolve the same with the relevant support.
• Liaising with the Administrator in relation to daily job costing, data collection and analysis.
• Liaise with the HR Team for guidance with managing performance and development, absence management processes and recruitment.
• Assist with interviews including weld testing and onboarding of new team members.
• Carry out bi-annual employee performance and development reviews, setting individual targets and reviewing employee performance regularly throughout the year.
• Liaising with the Service and Maintenance Engineer to ensure workshop maintenance and equipment repairs for general fabrication are carried out in a timely manner causing minimum downtime / disruption to production.
• Assisting the wider Offsite team with QA audits, striving for continual improvement of processes and procedures.
• Organise and oversee NDT testing on all welding products.
• Liaising with the procurement team to replenish stock or order materials.

| QUALIFICATION |

• 5 GCSE’s (Grades A-C) Including Math and English

| EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE |

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years Workshop / fabrication experience.
• Practical experience in either MIG or TIG welding and possess sound understanding of welding processes and procedures.

Desirable

• Previous experience within a supervisor/managerial role
• CWSIP 3.0 or 3.1 qualification or demonstrate sound knowledge of NDT processes.
• Background in mechanical piping systems.

| ABILITIES & SKILLS |

• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload. Developed problem solving skills, including the ability to manage conflicting work demands.
• Capacity to work independently with limited supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Able to produce quality work whilst working to deadlines.
• Must be very ‘hands on’ with can do attitude
• Developed problem solving skills

| COMPANY BENEFITS |

• Cash Health Plan to include Employee Assistance Programme
• 4 x Salary Death in Service cover
• Auto Enrolment Company Pension scheme (Salary Sacrifice)
• Company Sick Pay Scheme, which is available upon successful completion of probation, and increases with service
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Paid professional subscriptions
• Variety of employee discounts
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Branded clothing
• Active Social and Wellbeing Committees
• Annual Health Checks
• Full use of onsite state of the art gym
• Awards for long service
• Additional annual leave based on length of service
• Training and development opportunities.
• Free Onsite parking

Kane is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.