Production Superintendent

Job Description

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Improve Quality performance through decreased scrap and defects
• Daily review and identification of quality, efficiency, and scrap issues
• Lead review with Coaches to develop solutions or preventative measures
• Cook with Quality department to investigate, identify and implement corrective actions with the production team
• Lead to continuously improve quality metrics and targets
• Drive efficiency
• Work with Coaches and Team Leaders to drive efficiency by utilizing the production system and driving back issues to the team
• Ensure that operators are following SWI’s and lead team to continuously find SWI improvements
• Work with teams to improve station layouts, identify 8 waste opportunities, poke yokes, and implement 5s methodology into work areas
• Lead Coaches and Team Leaders to continuously improve production metrics and targets
• Drive Materials and Shipping Efficiency
• Ensure that proper floats and Finished Goods Inventories are kept at the correct levels
• Drive proper material flow by making sure that FIFO is used
• Drive high performance work team culture through training, support and empowerment
• Train all team members on Lean/Kaizen principles to help support a CI Culture and enable teams to identify and address “just do it” opportunities and resolve workplace issues independently
• Drive teams to actively pursue Team Member roles and tasks outside of workstation assembly
• Support and lead team Kaizen activities
• Always manage and ensure effective cross-training levels to 100% job rotations within teams
• Lead and develop Team Leaders to ensure High Performance Work Teams are effectively led
• Conduct or recommend continuous learning for Team Leaders
• Conduct training sessions for plant staff and production team
• Select and place Team Leaders within retention goals
• Develop Team Leaders to be recognized as currently promotable successors to Coach roles
• Drive Automated Manufacturing Performance
• Ensure operators and Team Leaders are properly trained on automated equipment operation, safety protocols, troubleshooting, and escalation procedures
• Drive error-proofing (Poka-Yoke), automation enhancements, and digital manufacturing initiatives to improve quality, productivity, and safety

Qualifications

• 3-5 years production/plant management experience in a manufacturing/union environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate ability in maintaining positive employment relations
• Maintain a high level of integrity
• Excellent organizational and computer skills
• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in a JIT Automotive plant
• Previous experience leading a team in a Automotive Seating plant
• Experience working with robotic assembly systems, PLC-controlled equipment, automated material handling systems, and vision inspection technologies.
• Knowledge of OEE, Industry 4.0 technologies, MES systems, and automated production monitoring tools.