Production Supervisor

Carbon60 are proud to be partnering with Lufthansa Technik Landing Gear Services to recruit for a Production Supervisor. Lufthansa Technik are a global leading provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for the civil aviation industry.

This Production Supervisor position is on a permanent basis and has become available due to continued growth and expansion. This role reports directly to the Production Manager (PM). In the absence of the Production Manager, the Supervisor/s will have delegated functional and disciplinary authority over the operational program and all colleagues within the department

Role Responsibilities will include:

Driving Business

• Think and act as part of the LTLGS organisation, ensure safety is your number one priority.
• Hardwire commercial thinking into your actions by taking calculated risks and balancing quality, costs and delivery impact. Ensure speed and discipline in task execution. Take consequences of your decisions into consideration, look for pragmatic solutions and always make sure that our customers and our authorities can trust us.
• Accountability for the team/s Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality standards as laid down by the Quality department and company procedures.
• To be aware of the sites COMAH responsibilities and to take appropriate actions in the
• event of an incident.
• Challenge the team to continuously strive for higher standards and to exceed defined targets.
• Required to manage interfaces with other production and support departments to optimise efficiency's.
• Encourage team development via the implementation of lean working principles.
• Maximise IT interfaces to enhance business development.
• Manage consistently both favourable and adverse team/individual performance.

Leading Change

• Increase agility by constantly questioning yourself and the change around you. Face uncertainty, deal with ambiguity and use controversy as a driver of progress. Anticipate change emerging within your team and environment and be prepared to act early. Make your change initiatives tangible by implementing them professionally with consideration for the human aspects.
• Challenge business decisions professionally and pragmatically to ensure understanding.
• Once defined, interpret and ensure clarity of business decisions within your team.
• Be authentic, use rational thinking and data where appropriate to support change.
• Adapt communication style to influence understanding.
• Empower teams understanding of the importance of environmental regulations and their individual and collective responsibilities.

Creating Spirit

• Inspire your team by creating a shared sense of purpose. Exercise positive influence by carefully listening and responding to others. Act with passion, know what you stand for and where your limits are. Consistently 'walk your talk', be honest and take responsibility for your own actions. Embrace everyone's uniqueness, trustfully grant autonomy and regard mistakes as a chance to learn and improve.

Fostering Talent

• Regard people's development as a driver of the company's success. Create opportunities to stretch, learn, fail, succeed and thereby grow. Provide guidance by giving feedback on performance and perspectives. Appreciate diversity of skills and mind-sets as a key to excellent results
• Maintain oversight of team's performance and development review schedule.
• Ensure supervisory oversight is maintained where appropriate.
• Ensure opportunities are merited and based on excellent performance and behaviours.
• Ensure the department is optimally manned and all relevant training is completed
• Develop a training pathway to encourage colleagues to learn new skills to greater business flexibility and career development.

Mastering Complexity

• Strive to keep it simple even in complex situations. Master given complexity with your team's competencies and be both analytical and intuitive. Have clear insight into your area of responsibility, capture the interconnections to other areas and master the dynamics of the system. Tap into sources of distributed knowledge and integrate the perspectives of others to work out focused and valuable solutions.
• Use only SMART performance metrics.

Skills and Experience required:

• HNC/HND (or equivalent) preferably in an engineering or aircraft maintenance discipline or
• Recognised Engineering Apprenticeship or demonstrable equivalent experience leading technical teams.
• Evidence of people management experience within an operational, unionised environment.
• Use of proven communication skills, engaging and influencing direct reports.
• Proven experience in performance management.
• Coached and identified development areas for self and teams.
• Understanding of MRO operations and processes.
• Understanding of aviation regulatory requirements (e.g. CAA/FAA/EASA)
• Working knowledge of Health & safety Regulations
• PC literate: ability to input and manipulate data using multiple platforms (e.g. SAP, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Why Lufthansa Technik Landing Gear Services? Here are some of their benefits and rewards:

• Competitive Salary Package
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Discounted Flight Benefits
• Reduced Gym memberships Retail and Hotel Discounts
• Seasonal Company Events

Shifts - either one week of 6am to 2pm and one week of 2pm to 10pm rotating weekly, or, 4 on 4 off.

Salary up to 57,252.

If you are interested in the role and want some more information, please contact Becky on (phone number removed) or email

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.