Production Supervisor (2nd Shift Weekends)

About the role

This person is responsible for leading operations strategy within the Dampers production departments. Must be capable of collaborating with cross-functional teams and department leaders to address concerns and issues that affect safety, part quality, production efficiency, continuous improvement, etc.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership for production areas and the team members.
• Executes operations to ensure safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and budget goals are achieved.
• Establishes strong and effective working relationships that are conducive to maintaining a positive work environment.
• Pairs with departmental leaders: HSE, Quality, Engineering, Materials and Human Resources to achieve or exceed Value Stream goals.
• Drives accountability through the use of tools and other methods to track performance.
• Evaluates departmental constraints and implements Lean Manufacturing techniques to improve capacities.
• Works closely with the Plant and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering to define cost-effective continuous improvement projects.
• Drove fair and consistent application of policies across the employee base.
• Promotes and drives the organization's vision and utilization of Knorr Production System (Lean Manufacturing) methodologies.
• Champions change and facilitates team-related functions to improve the business performance.
• Uses problem-solving methods and innovation to drive continuous improvement.
• Works closely with team members across departments to establish priorities ensuring on-time shipments to customers, meeting quality expectations, and other activities as needed.
• Ensures compliance with the plant policies and procedures including requirements for TS16949 and ISO14001.

Requirements

• Strong problem solving skills required.
• Strong written and oral communications skills are required.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities is required.
• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques with emphasis on standardized work, continuous improvement, 5S, and JIT principles is required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite is required.
• Statistical evaluation software familiarity a plus.
• SAP Experience is a plus.
• Greenbelt Certification is preferred.
• Requires at least 5+ years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• Requires at least two years of manufacturing operations experience in a Lean Manufacturing environment in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in motivating and leading people. Driving a positive work environment is required.
• Prefer a Bachelor degree in related discipline.
• Greenbelt Certification preferred.