Production Supervisor - 1st Shift

Position Summary

The Production Supervisor is responsible for directing and supervising department operations while meeting goals for safety, throughput, productivity, cycle time and quality.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyzes, establishes, and communicates performance standards to all leads and employees.
• Meets with employees daily, reflecting on problems, solutions, and challenges; thereby creating a culture of continuous improvement and contributing towards becoming a learning organization.
• Implements and coordinates cross training of department employees to insure the elimination of all skill gaps, resulting in a more skilled and adaptable workforce.
• Insures the completion of required competency forms and certifications, as well as maintains an employee skill matrix.
• Instills and maintains a positive, can-do team atmosphere; holding regular team meetings, assigning team members’ tasks, and coordinating required support services needed.
• Uses area boards to ensure results.
• Complies with all environmental safe practices and regulations.
• Conducts EH&S self-inspection and safety “huddles” in areas of responsibility.
• Supervises the conduct of Root Cause Corrective Action working sessions when safety and quality escapes occur.
• Reviews production orders or schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations.
• Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for products.
• Executes to schedules and coordinates activities to ensure production and quality of products meets specifications.
• Reviews production and operating metrics and reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent delays.
• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes workers to ensure compliance with standards.
• Solves employee suggestions and or complaints or submits unsettled employees issues for further action by Operations Manager and HR Manager where and when appropriate.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated understanding of the production environment, preferably in aerospace
• Knowledge of production processes, quality controls, and costs
• Knowledge of management principles involved in strategic planning and forecasting including people and equipment resource allocation; corporate and human resource policies and benefits; leadership; teaming; and production methods
• Thorough knowledge of lean manufacturing work area practices including 5-S, Visual Controls, Standard Work, work center metrics, and continuous improvement processes and able to instruct others in these practices
• Proactive communicator who can clearly articulate results and needs across all levels
• Able to establish and communicate clear priorities and to influence others to support and act on those priorities
• Broad mathematical skills: add, subtract, multiply and divide using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Able to work alone or as a member of a team, good cooperative skills.
• Able to read, write and communicate in English. Specifically, applicants must be able to read and understand written procedures and instructions.
• Able to lift and carry up to 35 lbs.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast paced and ever-changing environment with multiple priorities.

Required Experience

• 4 to 6 years of proven experience in a manufacturing environment