Foundry Weekend Night Shift Supervisor
SL/J3743
Posted: 12/11/2026
- £40000 + Benefits: Shift Premium, Company Bonus, 10% Company Pension
- Exeter, South West,
- Permanent
Foundry Weekend Night Shift Supervisor
The Opportunity:
This is a Weekend Night Shift role, working Friday / Saturday / Sunday NIGHTS 5pm to 6am. There is a 26% shift allowance offered for a hands on individual used to working in any of the following environments: a foundry, furnace, kiln, ceramics, alloy production facility. It would suit either a senior operator looking for a step into management, or a supervisor who’s really happy to be hands on in a working foundry.
The Role:
37.5 hour week will consist of Friday / Saturday / Sunday NIGHTS 5pm to 6am
Salary and Associated Benefits:
The salary is £37000 with an additional 26.67% shift allowance, bringing the total renumeration to £47000.
A range of benefits including company bonus and an excellent pension scheme and 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. Progression is encouraged, as is professional development.
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
Please note that this specific role may be subject to export control restrictions, including under ITAR. Any offer of employment from this particular company will be conditional on the successful candidate meeting the applicable legal requirements for access to controlled information or technology.
The Opportunity:
This is a Weekend Night Shift role, working Friday / Saturday / Sunday NIGHTS 5pm to 6am. There is a 26% shift allowance offered for a hands on individual used to working in any of the following environments: a foundry, furnace, kiln, ceramics, alloy production facility. It would suit either a senior operator looking for a step into management, or a supervisor who’s really happy to be hands on in a working foundry.
The Role:
- This is a hands on role within a foundry environment so you must be 100% committed to working with your team, within the foundry and furnaces. There are additional supervisory responsibilities so the role would suit a Senior Operator looking for advancement OR a hands on supervisor.
- Daily monitoring of production and information flow paths and production rates, along with communication to management to ensure objectives and KPIs are being met.
- Maintain all quality, process management and production standards
- Oversees daily operations and assigns tasks effectively to team members.
- Provides on the job training and coaching to develop employees, conducts performance appraisals and provides feedback
- Lead and be accountable for environmental, health, and safety performance and HR.
- Previous experience in a similar environment would be ideal: this is a working foundry, so the environment is hot and can be dusty. So if you’ve worked in a foundry, with furnaces or a cement or ceramic environment that would be ideal.
- If you’ve been a senior operator and looking for a step up into management, or are already a supervisor, this could be the role for you.
- An ability to work with company systems, monitor staff performance and allocate work would be required.
- An excellent awareness of H&S essential.
37.5 hour week will consist of Friday / Saturday / Sunday NIGHTS 5pm to 6am
Salary and Associated Benefits:
The salary is £37000 with an additional 26.67% shift allowance, bringing the total renumeration to £47000.
A range of benefits including company bonus and an excellent pension scheme and 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. Progression is encouraged, as is professional development.
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
Please note that this specific role may be subject to export control restrictions, including under ITAR. Any offer of employment from this particular company will be conditional on the successful candidate meeting the applicable legal requirements for access to controlled information or technology.
