Production Supervisor

**Position Summary**

The Production Supervisor will lead our Footwear teams to ensure safety, quality, and production targets are met. This role will focus on continuous improvement in operations, driving efficiency in machinery, labor, and processes. Additionally, you'll support Team Leaders and contribute to projects aimed at enhancing overall performance and operational culture within the departments.

**Key Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Lead and support Footwear Team Leaders to ensure safety, production & quality targets are met and to achieve optimum efficiencies.
- Oversee and monitor end to end line balancing through Footwear Team Leaders.
- Provide up to date & accurate line production metrics, issues faced, and remedial actions.
- Manage and oversee the root cause analysis investigation process then oversee the implementation of effective counter measures.
- Effectively manage plant utilisation, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), labor utilisation & headcount, and total process loss across our Footwear department.
- Manage the employee lifecycle including onboarding, training & development, disciplinaries and offboarding.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Experience managing large teams within a fast-paced manufacturing facility while consistently delivering positive operational results.
- A track record of implementing continuous improvement initiatives using LEAN/Six Sigma methodology to enchase safety, efficiency and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to coach & mentor leaders in the use of tools that deliver improved outcomes.
- Effective communicator and problem solver, skilled in cross-functional communication to cultivate strong relationships and influence key stakeholders.
- Proven history of successfully delivering productivity objectives.

**What we offer**:
Aside from working for an iconic Australian company with a culture of growth, development & team spirit, we offer a competitive benefits package including:

- Generous product allowance
- 40% employee discount
- Annual bonus policy
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid parental leave
- Paid volunteer leave
- Access to discounts on private health insurance and online wellness program

**About R.M.Williams**

Since 1932, R.M.Williams has answered a call for hardwearing, timeless products that can hold up against the harsh conditions of the Australian outback - and look good whilst doing it. Our bestselling leather boots and belts are still crafted by hand in Adelaide, South Australia, alongside an ever-growing range of apparel, accessories and lifestyle products. At the heart of everything we do is a simple promise of loyalty and endurance; a commitment that our products will accompany their wearer on all of life’s great journeys. Reginald Murray ‘RM’ Williams always said, ‘it’s the people who make a company’ and we stand by that statement today, with a global network of teams that feels like family. A culture of growth, development and team spirit is central to our success.
- R.M.Williams appreciates the importance and value of a diverse workforce and is committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all employees and to provide employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at R.M.Williams are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, national origin or family or parental status. R.M.Williams will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics._