Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Essential Functions & Key Responsibilities

• Commit to overall safety of the plant and procedures.
• Manage 3 to 30 manufacturing employees at the location.
• Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations to exceed our customers’ expectations.
• Increase production, assets capacity, reducing waste and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
• Be responsible for production output, product quality, reducing waste and on time shipping.
• Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results.
• Implement strategies in alignment with strategic Division initiatives providing a clear sense of direction and focus for production employees.
• Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions.
• Share a trusting relationship with work group and recruit, manage and develop the plant staff. Provide leadership and drive training initiatives for all plant employees.
• Develop future talent by coaching and mentoring direct reports.
• Collect and analyze data to find areas of waste or overtime and implement an improvement process.
• Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics, and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets, quality and safety.
• Participate in monitoring, managing and controlling expenses throughout the year.
• Perform strategic thinking and actively participate in plant and company processes.
• Conduct meetings with employees to communicate company goals, objectives, and initiatives.
• Create a departmental vision and translate into action items with specific completion dates and delegation of responsibilities to appropriate direct reports.

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, engineering or a related field preferred or equivalent experience or, a minimum of 1 to 3 years related experience and or training in a manufacturing environment.
• Extrusion, plastic bag converting, paper converting experience is a plus.
• Proven technical and leadership ability to utilize structured problem solving to deliver results.
• Demonstrated competence to work with minimal supervision effectively at all levels.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of the organization.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with the willingness to learn new systems.
• Superior problem-solving and coaching capabilities.
• Ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization.
• Adequate knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation and human resources).
• Exceptional organizational, priority setting and time management skills.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret complex documents and statistical information.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts and ease of numbers.
• Reasoning ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in written and in a diagram form.
• Technical skills to work with equipment design and capabilities that can be translated into efficient operation.
• Cost issues in order to make daily decisions that will reduce overall costs and will help the supervisor find areas that require improvement.
• Budget development, adherence and analysis.
• Quality standards.
• Regulatory requirements including but not limited to wage and hour requirements, environmental and waste minimization, company policies, and personnel requirements including OSHA, DEQ and EEO.