Production Supervisor - 1st Shift - Distro

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for operating a safe working environment for all employees, including leading by example, on-the-spot rectification of safety hazards, and timely incident reporting.
• Create a culture of accountability and empowerment in the production environment.
• Guide Team Leads and team to ensure effective cross-training for the production workforce, including backups from other areas, to assure a continuously operating and smooth-running department.
• Recognize employees for results & behaviors that support our values & principles that lead to customer satisfaction.
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance.
• Partner with HR Department in rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, resolving problems and treating all employees’ fairly.
• Be accountable to the Value Stream Manager for performance of the department shift around metrics covering Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Inventory, and People.
• Be a change agent within the department, driving continuous improvement and elimination of waste.
• Develop knowledge of products, processes, equipment, and quality standards to develop/update standard work procedures and cross train department production employees.
• Instill and maintain a positive can-do team atmosphere within the department; hold regular team meetings, assigning team members tasks, and coordinating support services needed outside the team.
• Utilize the Tier Accountability Meetings and Team Improvement Boards to ensure results.
• Escalate major issues and opportunities to Value Stream Managers with proposed solutions and participate in execution of follow-on actions.
• Owns and manages the department shift to include developing, coaching & mentoring Team Leads & associates, ensuring that team input is used to thoroughly evaluate decisions, to be rapidly implemented.
• Perform employment decisions related to associates, and performance assessment of all direct reports, Team Leads, and associates.
• Owns and maintains compliance and accuracy for values and proper usage of the ERP / MRP system.
• Facilitate and support the identification, selection, and prioritization of process improvement projects.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications: Two years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, computer literacy, including MS Word, Excel, and MRP transactions (Epicor preferred), ability to work department shift hours and relevant overtime with the team.
• PREFERRED Qualifications: Basic knowledge of electrical, mechanical assembly, and/or fabrication, associate or bachelor’s degree preferred, demonstrated and effective leadership style, with a positive and proactive approach to supervision with a proven ability to build high performing teams, excellent people skills with a proven ability in supervising, coaching, and training employees, strong mechanical aptitude, ability to adapt & thrive in a fast-paced/high growth work environment, a passion for Trystar, its culture, and a commitment to deliver on growth and performance metrics, bilingual (English and Spanish).