2nd Shift Manufacturing Supervisor

About the role

Dover Precision Components is hiring a Manufacturing Supervisor for our Cook Compression brand, located at our South Houston/ Pearland ISO certified manufacturing facility. This role oversees production on 2nd shift (Monday- Friday 3pm- 12am).

Responsibilities

• Supervise the manufacturing processes in a safe and efficient manner to ensure product is shipped on time and at a profit.
• Responsible for supervising, planning team support, schedule adherence and directing the hourly work force to achieve daily plans to satisfy customer demand.
• Manage a team of around 26 people, including machine operators, machinists, and assembly personnel.
• Facilitate shift team meetings and safety meetings.
• Enforce safety protocols, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and standards, including OSHA and company-specific safety guidelines.
• Conduct accident investigations and complete accident reports as required.
• Act as point of contact for emergency response on 2nd Shift.
• Organize and assign work to utilize available skills, knowledge and experience, labor-hours, and production equipment to obtain the most favorable cost and quality consistent with production schedules.
• Ensure downtime/OEE system is maintained and updated.
• Work closely with plant leadership to achieve production goals.
• Check on work in progress to ensure the meeting of quality standards; Assist with the resolution of CARs and NCMRs, as necessary.
• Support overall ISO procedures and QMS.
• Coach, train, motivate, and mentor employees.
• Participate in new employee selection and hiring.
• Conduct performance assessments for the hourly team members.
• Drive continuous improvement, including:
• Understand cell, value stream, and plant metrics.
• Able to identify gaps between current state and targets and implement corrective actions using problem-solving tools, driving towards operational excellence.
• Oversee and lead continuous improvement activities on 2nd shift such as 5S, “just-do-it,” and Kaizen events.
• Understand, utilize, and maintain value stream boards to communicate the state of the business daily.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ supervisory production experience, preferably in a high mix manufacturing and machining environment.
• CNC experience preferred.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles and concepts with continuous improvement experience.
• Demonstrated experience in motivating a team to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and resolve issues.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, ability to solve complex problems.
• Experience training machinists on technical and lean aspects.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret drawings and blueprints.
• Strong leadership and managerial skills and experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Excel) and ERP/ systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey instructions, report issues, and collaborate with other departments and shifts.

Qualifications

• Education: Degree in Business, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Preferences: Compression and/or injection molding experience. Lean Manufacturing training and/or certification.

Skills

• Lean manufacturing principles and concepts.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Training and mentoring abilities.
• Leadership and management skills.
• Communication skills.

Benefits

• 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Health savings account, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Company paid short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Company paid employee basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Supplemental employee and dependent life insurance.
• Optional accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness insurance.
• Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits and assistance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Paid time off, including business travel services.
• Employee discounts.
• An employee assistance program that includes company paid counseling sessions and legal services.