The Role
Are you looking for a hands-on role where you can make a real impact? Do you have experience in manufacturing, production, or warehousing and enjoy leading a team? This is an opportunity to use your industry skills to support rehabilitation and skill-building in a unique and rewarding environment.
The Role
As a Production Workshop Supervisor, you’ll oversee manufacturing operations in a prison-based workshop, supervising a small team of prisoners repurposing mattresses and beds. Your role is essential in ensuring production targets and quality standards are met while maintaining a safe, secure, and supportive work environment.
You’ll provide practical training, manage workflows, and embed key employability skills like teamwork, time management, and quality control—helping prisoners build a foundation for future employment.
Internally this role is known as an Industry Instructor.
Working Hours:
This is a full-time role, 38.5 hours per week, with the following schedule:
* Four days per week: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
* One half-day per week: either 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
What You’ll Be Doing
* Induct prisoners into the workshop, provide hands-on training in manufacturing processes, and ensure compliance with health & safety protocols.
* Set work schedules, oversee production, and ensure all work meets contractual and quality standards.
* Lead a small team, encourage a positive work ethic, and foster a rehabilitative environment using restorative practices.
* Conduct risk assessments, maintain tool security, and ensure compliance with prison safety regulations.
* Work with Work & Skills Coaches to help prisoners develop transferable skills for employment upon release.
* Manage materials, inventory, and production targets while maintaining accurate records.
What We’re Looking For
✔ Experience in manufacturing, production, warehousing, or industrial operations .
✔ Ability to lead a team, set productivity goals, and maintain quality standards .
✔ Strong awareness of health, safety, and risk management in a hands-on work environment.
✔ Confident in organizing workloads, training individuals, and monitoring progress .
✔ Understanding of security protocols in a structured setting (experience in a custodial environment is a plus).
✔ Ideally, a teaching, assessor, or TAQA qualification (or willingness to work towards one).
Security & Screening Requirements
The successful candidate must pass prison clearance, including security vetting for a custodial setting, enhanced background checks covering employment history, criminal records, and right-to-work verification, as well as social media screening in line with security policies.
Who We Are
Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.
As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.
Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.
To put it simply, we:
* Support people to find and keep jobs
* Help people to set up their own businesses
* Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
* Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
* Rehabilitate people with convictions
* Tackle the root causes of offending
* Help people to live independently
* Support carers
We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.
Our Benefits
A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year
25 days annual leave
Cycle to Work scheme
Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to online wellbeing centre
Enhanced Wedding leave
A paid volunteering day each year
Testimonials
"I have worked within PeoplePlus for 6 months now, my team is amazing and full of support. I have been given many opportunities to expand my role and learn new skills, always supported by management and my colleagues."
"PeoplePlus is a great place to work as they care about and support their employees whilst challenging them to grow within the company. The core values contribute effectively to the company culture of honesty, communication and self-improvement enabling staff to be heard and feedback and share opinions in a progressive way. Staff are always empowered to perform and motivated by achievement thereby creating a positive environment within which to support the well-being of others."
"I have loved my time since joining PeoplePlus as an Administrator for the Restart Scheme in Stockton. After a few months I enrolled onto Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship through the internal apprenticeship programme. Since then, I have joined the Contract Assurance team as Compliance officer for the Northeast. I have a great support system within the organisation and have been given many fantastic opportunities to help progress my professional development. "