Magna Engineered Glass: 2nd Shift Production Supervisor

About the Role

The Production Supervisor at Magna Engineered Glass is a proactive leader overseeing the performance of their assigned production team, ensuring all manufacturing activities align with customer requirements for cost, quality, and delivery. Responsible for creating a safe and efficient work environment, the Supervisor leads and participates in continuous improvement initiatives and drives problem-solving efforts in line with the MAFACT Production System. They are accountable for overall schedule attainment, productivity, and workforce management, ensuring optimal performance and adherence to production goals across their shift.

Responsibilities

• Quality: Makes quality control decisions based on established quality standards and checks. Identifies opportunities for common mistake proofing. Understands quality control plans. Accurately tracks and measures defects and performs defect analysis. Ensures standardized work is followed and maintained.
• Communication: Effectively communicates performance in all aspects of the business, including Policy, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Equity, Productivity, and General Focus Factory Communications during pre-shift and team meetings.
• Safety/5S: Corrects or commends health and safety performance in the work area and takes immediate action to correct unsafe conditions or actions. Ensures employees are appropriately trained in recognizing job-specific hazards. Completes routine safety inspections and ensures compliance with Health and Safety and ISO14001 policies. Leads accident/incident investigations and assists in conducting risk assessments for new or modified equipment/processes.
• Staffing: Through subordinate Team Leaders, responsible for weekly staffing of work cells based on customer demand and weekly schedule. Staffs work cells with trained personnel to meet "takt time." Maintains vacation, overtime, off-line training, and relief schedules.
• HR/Training: Develops employees using Training Within Industry and training matrices. Presents new information to groups. Administers and applies company policy consistently and fairly. Hires, fires, and disciplines employees. Provides constructive feedback through performance reviews. Establishes individual development plans and participates in hiring new employees. Develops team competence using EOS improvement activities and maintains team morale.
• Improvements: Leads continuous improvement for customer concerns, on-time delivery, quality, scrap reduction, safety, and morale. Leads teams through problem-solving processes, documents issues, and identifies solutions. Supports Continuous Improvement teams in time studies, work sequence, standardized work, and takt time charting.
• Materials: Leads on-line schedule attainment. Uses ERP-related systems and implements visual controls. Responds to inventory variances with corrective action. Monitors utilization of kanban – JIT systems.
• Upward Communications: Tracks and evaluates performance measurables against safety, quality, cost, and delivery goals. Executes action plans to meet or exceed goals. Alerts management team of significant variations and proactively communicates corrective actions.
• General: Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.
• Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Ensures compliance with Magna and Magna Engineered Glass EHS policies and procedures, as well as local, state, and federal regulations. Promotes a culture of safety and environmental responsibility. Leads safety initiatives, conducts risk assessments, and participates in incident investigations. Monitors and enforces PPE usage and tracks EHS metrics. Supports emergency preparedness and response plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree such as Engineering, Business, or a related discipline. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of eight years of progressive experience in manufacturing, operations, or a related field, with at least three years in a leadership or supervisory role.
• Experience in automotive is strongly preferred.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Solid understanding of business issues relevant to the role, with the ability to prioritize work and solve problems based on operating procedures.
• Proven leadership abilities with a track record of developing and managing staff toward short-term departmental goals.
• Demonstrated project management and organizational skills to manage multiple issues simultaneously.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Familiarity with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and other relevant software/tools. Experience with QAD is an asset.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills with a track record of successfully resolving complex operational issues in fast-paced environments.
• Current TWI (Training Within Industry) certification required.
• Ability to complete training as required by the EHS Training Matrix and role-specific guidelines.
• English proficiency required, with strong verbal and written communication skills. Bilingual (Spanish) preferred.

Skills

• Leadership: Ability to guide and motivate teams, ensuring alignment with company goals.
• Problem Solving: Skilled in identifying issues, analyzing information, and implementing solutions effectively to improve production and quality.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate policies, goals, and feedback effectively.
• Continuous Improvement: Experience leading continuous improvement activities, leveraging tools like lean manufacturing principles or Six Sigma.

Work Environment

• Standing and walking 75%; sitting 25%.
• Production floor environment that is loud (hearing protection strongly recommended).
• Willing and able to work 7 days per week, 10-12 hour shifts, during periods of peak customer demand.

Worker Type: Regular / Permanent