Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and detail-oriented Weaving and Warping Supervisor to build and lead our new textile production team. In this role, you will oversee the weaving and warping processes, ensuring high-quality fabric production while maintaining safety and efficiency standards. Your expertise will drive continuous improvement in manufacturing operations, coordinate team activities, and uphold our commitment to excellence in textile craftsmanship.
Join us as a Weaving and Warping Supervisor where your technical expertise meets your passion for craftsmanship! Be part of a vibrant team dedicated to producing high-quality textiles through innovation and precision. Your leadership will inspire continuous improvement while ensuring our manufacturing processes run smoothly from start to finish.
Production Delivery
- Allocate work daily across looms, warpers and people against the production plan.
- Own machine utilisation and output; identify and remove the constraints causing lost time.
- Own changeover performance - sequencing, preparation and target times.
- Manage work in progress, beam availability and yarn readiness so looms are not waiting.
- Flag capacity, material or resource risks to the Production Manager early with an option, not just a problem.
Technical Authority
- Maintain the loom setting standard for each product type.
- Diagnose complex or recurring machine and fabric faults and drive them to the root cause.
- Decide the boundary between technician adjustment, supervisor intervention and Engineering involvement.
- Support new product introduction, trial warps and sampling with Design and Engineering.
- Own consumables and critical spares levels for the area (reeds, heddles, needles, shuttles) and raise requisitions.
Quality
- Approve first-off work and authorise production to run.
- Ensure specifications, SOPs and records are current and being followed; update where practice has moved on.
People
- Deliver and sign off training and competency; maintain training records for the area.
- Build technical depth in the team and capture knowledge in appropriate learning materials
Health & Safety
- Ensure risk assessments and safe systems of work for the area are current, understood and followed.
- Deliver toolbox talks and safety briefings.
- Report, investigate and close out incidents and near misses.
- Monitor guarding, isolation, noise exposure and manual handling practice; stop work where it is unsafe.
- Supervise contractors working in the area.
Reporting & Improvement
- Report output, efficiency, downtime, waste and quality performance to the Production Manager.
- Lead continuous improvement in the area - setup times, waste, quality, layout
Skills & Experience
- Demonstrate ability to learn and understand technical processes quickly and adapt, working well under pressure and managing change.
- Ability to lead and develop a team.
- Confident interpreting technical specifications and production data.
- Practical H&S knowledge
Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
