Production Supervisor
Location: Haydock, St Helens (4 days per week in the office)
Job type: Permanent / Temporary / FTC / Contract etc.
Contracted hours: Full time – 36hrs per week (we offer an option to condense full time hours into 4 days Monday – Thursday)
About the role
Overview of the role
This role plays a key part in supporting the day-to-day running of our production operations, ensuring manufacturing, testing, and material control activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. The Production Supervisor will work closely with the Production Manager, Operations, and Engineering teams to help coordinate workflow across the workshop and ensure production targets are met.
This is a hands-on leadership role within a dynamic manufacturing environment, supporting a multi-disciplined team and helping to maintain strong standards across quality, safety, and delivery performance.
What you’ll be responsible for
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Supervising and supporting the workshop manufacturing team and their day-to-day workload.
- Assisting with production planning, progress tracking, and reporting against workshop schedules.
- Supporting the implementation and maintenance of production processes, procedures, and quality standards across manufacturing and testing activities.
- Helping to maintain a safe working environment, ensuring health & safety procedures are followed and the workshop remains well organised.
- Supporting material control and inventory processes, including tracking stock and assisting with workshop systems.
- Assisting with quality checks during different stages of production to help identify defects, deviations, or improvements.
About you
What you’ll bring
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:
- Experience working in a manufacturing or production environment, ideally in a supervisory or senior operative role.
- Strong team leadership skills with the ability to motivate and support others.
- Good understanding of production processes, quality standards, and workshop operations.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage priorities and workload effectively.
- A practical, hands-on approach with good problem-solving ability.
- Awareness of health & safety practices within a manufacturing environment.
Nice to have
Although not essential, if you’re also able to demonstrate the following, we’ll take that into account when assessing your application:
- Experience within electrical, control, and instrumentation manufacturing environments.
- Exposure to inventory or workshop management systems.
- Experience working in regulated industries such as defence, nuclear, or energy.
- Formal qualification in engineering or a related technical discipline.
The Person
We believe that recruiting is not just about finding people who can demonstrate the right skills – if you can demonstrate those we would also like to see:
- a can-do attitude with a positive approach to problem solving
- excellent attention to detail and accuracy in all areas of their work
- application of our core values in your everyday working life:
o collaboration and teamwork
o integrity, trust and accountability
o safety and security
o client focused
o positive social value and impact
o continuous improvement
What we offer
In return, you’ll enjoy the following benefits:
Ways of Working
- 36 hours full time working
- Optional 4 day working week (Monday to Thursday)
- Hybrid working for many roles (minimum of 2 days per week on site)
Time Off
- 23 days holiday, plus 3 discretionary days to cover the Christmas closedown period (plus bank holidays)
- Option to purchase up to 36 hours additional holiday
- Birthday day off (in addition to your holiday entitlement)
- 1 STEM Day per year
Other benefits
- Healthcare cash plan – allowing you to reclaim the cost of everyday healthcare
- Employers pension contributions of 5%
- Life Assurance (Death in Service) benefit
- Cycle to work scheme
- Professional membership fees (if required for your role)
- Free onsite parking
- Free refreshments and fruit in the workplace
Next Steps
If this is the right role for you and you’re ready to join our team, please apply in writing with your CV and a covering letter giving us a little more information about yourself, your situation and why you consider yourself to be the right person for this role. We look forward to hearing from you.
Security and Vetting
We take the security requirements of our industry, client and customers very seriously so before joining the team you’ll be required to undertake a number of checks. Depending on your role, you may be subject to UK national security vetting restrictions. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and satisfy requirements for national security vetting clearance as appropriate to the role applied for.
Equal Opportunities
We believe in equality, diversity and inclusion and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch to discuss.
Confidentiality
All applications received will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence and restricted to those involved in the recruitment process.
Note to Agencies
Delkia has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Please note that any unsolicited CVs submitted will be deemed as gifted to Delkia and any terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.
