Production Supervisor

Duties and Tasks:

Safety

* Ensures a safe working environment, by making sure employees are performing duties in compliance with company policies and procedures

* Identifies and corrects unsafe behaviors, tasks, or practices

* Completes safety investigations, applies solutions, and audits for effectiveness

* Identifies and corrects machine/equipment issues

Quality

* Monitors product quality and directs adjustments as necessary

* Audits compliance of company policies, procedures, and programs

* Ensure production and quality paperwork are filled out on the floor

* Makes sure process instructions & rates are accurate

* Reports and responds to product and process non-conformance issues

Lean Manufacturing

* Improve the direct manufacturing time and increase efficiency through the elimination of waste

* 5S

o Ensure facility is clean and organized (machines, work areas, assembly, WIP, etc.)

* Process Management

o Forms and Daily Management Boards are completed

* Problem Solving

o Implements root cause solutions to problems

* Elimination of Waste

o Over production, unnecessary motion, inventory, waiting, conveyance, correction, rework, underutilized talent, and accidents and injuries

o Driving continual improvement

Communication

* Interface effectively with all levels of management

* Communicates priorities effectively to plant personnel

* Ensure all information and priorities are communicated to the following shifts

* Completes shift documentation

* Handles disciplinary actions of employees on shift

Business Systems

* Ensures all records and production information is recorded accurately

* Ensure employees are following program rules put in place (completing paperwork accurately)

* Complete required reports

Production

* Molding Troubleshooting & Processing Skills

o Ability to process and set up difficult jobs

o Understands all molding techniques

* Hold personnel accountable for their actions

* Ensures employees are meeting or exceeding established production standards (rates)

* Rates employee's performance

Human Resources

* Responsible for training and development of personnel by creating safe work instructions, safe machine instructions, story boards and developing visual standards

* Conducts employee performance reviews

* Participates in the resolution of employee discussions

General

* Able to plan, organize, prioritize, and achieve effective time management.

* Any other task as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

Education / Experience

* High School Diploma or GED

* Associate or bachelor's degree preferred

* 3-5 years supervisory experience in a machining or manufacturing environment

* Computer Experience (Word, Excel, Power Point)

* Exposer to business management systems

* Quality Control (QC) experience

Language Skills:

* Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, production schedules, maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals

* Ability to write reports, procedural manuals, and correspondence

* Able to communicate effectively with customers, vendors, and other employees

Mathematical & Reasoning Skills

* Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

* Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages

* Able to practical problem solve

Working Environment & Physical Demands:

Physical Demands

* The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and talk or hear

* The employee is occasionally required to sit, use hands, handle tools, and controls

* The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, carrying and moving parts, materials, and product

* Specific vision abilities require by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Work Environment

* Must be able to work sometimes in a hot, dirty, dusty, noisy environment

Additional Duties: This job description is in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed. You will be expected to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested by your supervisor.