Manufacturing Supervisor - Night Shift

About the role

Supervises and coordinates all shift activities of assigned production area(s) engaged in the manufacture of wire and cable products by performing the following duties personally or through employees.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervises employees in the assigned production area.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policy and applicable laws.
• Interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Reviews production schedules to ascertain product data such as: types, quantities, specifications and scheduled delivery dates in order to meet customer requirements and 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, observes assigned employees to ensure compliance with production and quality standards and conducts employees performance appraisals.
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays and executes instructions from production management.
• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization as well as provided 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 productions data and assists with monthly inventory.

Qualifications

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.

Requirements

• 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 and smell.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities: close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly works near moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock.
• Noise level usually loud.

Skills

• 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 or organization.
• Ability to add and 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.