Unit 5 production

Reaing

Listen and read the advertisement for a production Supervisor position. Then, complete the table using information from the text Present the job to the class.

Job Title: production supervisor

Company name: pringle and webster

Manofacture of: containers

Duties include: raw materials, output leveis, conferencing.

Speaking

With a partner, act out the roles below, based on the dialogue from task 6. Then switch roles.

 I spent two years with a manufacturer of machine parts

 What did you do there?

 My role was to oversee the assembly line and keep output levels high

 Were you involved in quality control?

 Yes. Actually, I managed those operations. I'm pleased to say that when I was manager, product recall fell by 37 percent.

 Congratulations, that's impressive How did you accomplish that?

 I brought in some lean manufacturing measures

 Well, we're very interested in that type of change tell me, where you responsible for any other duties?

 Of course. I also had to purchase raw materials and avoid shortages

 And how did you decide what materials to go with?

 I just made sure that we met the specifications our clients wanted

 I see. And did you conference with clients?

 No. i didn t work on that side of the business