Manufacturing Supervisor📣 إعلان

About the Role

Alkhorayef Water & Power Technologies (AWPT) is seeking a dedicated Manufacturing Supervisor to join our team in Dammam. This full-time role involves overseeing assigned manufacturing activities to ensure production plans are executed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with approved priorities.

Operational Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily work allocation, manpower utilization, equipment availability, and material readiness to support schedule adherence and timely order completion.
• Review daily production priorities, open work orders, pending operations, and critical customer requirements before assigning shop-floor activities.
• Monitor shop-floor progress, update production status, highlight constraints, and escalate risks related to capacity, materials, quality, or equipment downtime.
• Ensure manufacturing activities are performed according to approved drawings, work instructions, routings, quality requirements, and standard operating procedures.
• Control Work-In-Progress (WIP) movement across assigned work areas, ensuring jobs advance through each operation without unnecessary delays.
• Coordinate with Planning, Engineering, Quality, Warehouse, Maintenance, and Customer Service to resolve operational issues and maintain workflow continuity.

Quality and Performance Improvement

• Ensure availability and proper control of required materials, drawings, tools, fixtures, gauges, and consumables before starting assigned production work.
• Support first-piece checks, in-process inspection coordination, and timely closure of quality concerns to prevent repeat issues and production delays.
• Review productivity, rework, scrap, overtime, and non-conformance trends, supporting corrective actions to improve shop-floor performance.
• Follow up on machine breakdowns, tooling issues, and maintenance requirements to minimize downtime and protect production commitments.
• Support implementation of improvement initiatives related to Lean manufacturing, 5S, cycle time reduction, standard work, and operational efficiency.

Shift Management and Reporting

• Supervise day or night shift operations as assigned, ensuring proper shift coverage, continuity of production priorities, and clear communication between shifts.
• Ensure proper recording of production quantities, completed operations, rework, scrap, delays, and shift remarks in applicable systems or reports.
• Maintain clear shift handover updates covering completed work, pending jobs, constraints, manpower status, and priority escalation items.
• Prepare and maintain daily production records, attendance, overtime requirements, shift handovers, and other operational reports as required.

Workplace Standards and Safety

• Ensure tools, equipment, fixtures, and work areas are properly used, maintained, and available to support safe and uninterrupted production.

Required Experience

Candidates for this Manufacturing Supervisor position should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in manufacturing supervision or a similar operational leadership role.