Manufacturing Supervisor

About the Role

Supervises and coordinates all shift activities of assigned production area(s) engaged in the manufacture of wire and cable products. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, and resolving problems.

Responsibilities

• Reviews production schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, specifications, and scheduled delivery dates to meet customer requirements; assists in establishing necessary revisions.
• Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products in assigned area.
• Makes personnel assignments, maintains housekeeping and safety standards, interprets policies and procedures, and ensures compliance with production and quality standards.
• Conducts employee performance appraisals.
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays; executes instructions from production management.
• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization; provides instructions on proper operations.
• Assists engineering personnel with new process and designs.
• Enforces rules, resolves worker complaints and problems, and submits unresolved situations to production management for action.
• Completes, maintains, and forwards relative production data and assists with monthly inventory.

Requirements

• One year certificate from college or technical school and/or three to four years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Directly supervises employees in the assigned production area; carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• 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 and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations.
• Able to use Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Regularly works near moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud.