Off-Shift Supervisor Remelt

Position Overview

The Remelt Supervisor at Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. is responsible for overseeing production, ensuring safety, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. This position requires a high level of leadership, analytical skills, and the ability to manage a union workforce.

Specific Responsibilities

• Promote a safe culture by engaging in safety observations and programs.
• Ensure safety procedures are followed; provide training, accountability, and discipline.
• Foster a sense of urgency while maintaining attention to detail.
• Enter and maintain inventory of critical operational supplies.
• Plan, execute, and monitor work including a 7-day forecast and 72-hour detail analysis.
• Lead CI projects to improve productivity, yield, and eliminate non-value-added work.
• Support cross-functional improvement efforts by collaborating with technical, engineering, and maintenance departments.
• Document poor work performance and address training or disciplinary issues.
• Issue weekly work schedules for hourly employees and report accurate time to payroll.
• Facilitate daily meetings for hourly employees and assign work tasks.
• Facilitate daily meetings with senior staff and report department performance.
• Maintain 5S compliance and improvement throughout the department.
• Utilize Level II supervisory system or furnace monitoring to review and confirm compliance to specific tasks and inspection requirements.
• Monitor performance and instrumentation of ESR and VAR furnaces and provide solutions to real problems.
• Monitor heat treat tempering for production capacity and coordinate product transfer to other plant units.
• Analyze and sort metal using a portable/hand-held spectrometer.

Required Knowledge/Skills

• Good computer skills
• Logical understanding of electrical and mechanical principles
• Experience in a steel mill or industrial mill environment
• Knowledge of remelting and specialty steels preferred
• Ability to interact with both salary and hourly workforce on safety, scheduling, and training issues
• Highly organized and methodical when approaching tasks
• Experience in personnel development and leadership
• Aptitude for training employees
• Operational excellence
• Strong organizational skills

Physical Requirements

• Ability to safely move around in a heavy industrial plant environment
• Standing for long periods of time
• Lifting up to 50 lbs. occasionally
• Working irregular shifts and extended hours as required

Education and Experience

• High School Diploma
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment
• Minimum of 3 years of front-line supervisory experience managing a union workforce

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc.

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., established in 1994, is headquartered in Bridgeville, PA, with plants in North Jackson, OH, Dunkirk, NY, and Titusville, PA. The company produces semi-finished and finished specialty steel long products and plate, including stainless steel, tool steel, bearing steel, gear steel, and aircraft quality low alloy steels for various industries such as Boeing, Ford, Chrysler, CAT, Toshiba, and GE Energy. Universal is committed to providing the best quality, delivery, and service possible.