Production Supervisor (6am - 6:30pm Sunday through Tuesday, every other Wednesday)

Primary Responsibilities and Duties

• Provides recognition to employees.
• Ensures training is provided for effective performance.
• Proactively addresses issues with employees with supportive documentation.
• Adheres to Company policies, procedures, and applicable budget requirements.
• Counsels employees on performance issues.
• Conducts timely performance reviews.
• Captures and documents employee feedback.
• Coordinates effective delegation of work assignments and training.
• Engages in providing a safe working environment for the employees by actively participating in and encouraging the employees to participate in the S.E.E. Committee, other company sponsored safety programs.
• Takes an active role as a Safety team member.
• Continuously speaks to operators about proactive measures to promote a safe work environment.
• Audits and manages the production processes and employees to ensure quality of production and adherence to established standards and work practices.
• Maintains a clean and safe work area.
• Wears required Personal Protective Equipment.
• Communicates potential hazards immediately to Manager.
• Engages in gemba walks and employee passdown information.
• Assists in developing CI plans and participates in kaizen activities for improving Business Systems, cost reductions, and eliminating waste in the operation.
• Implements quality improvements using the 8D problem solving methods.
• Works closely with the schedulers to minimize unevenness in the schedule and develops action plans with the schedulers to act upon any schedule interruptions.
• Ensures employees are actively standardizing their work area using 6S.
• Update/Create the 6S program as needed.
• Monitors the accuracy of documentation and electronic transactions to ensure the accuracy of work order and inventory records.
• Works with a sense of urgency that enables production schedules to be met while minimizing unnecessary costs related to downtime and labor and material variances; and without jeopardizing the health and safety of the general workforce and/or the quality and accuracy of production and without violating established work standards and ISO requirements.
• Works with Production Planner to assist with production order processing and execution.
• Conducts Daily passdown meetings within shifts.
• Trains operators in SAP.
• Ensures all necessary transactions and paperwork is filled out accurately and in a timely manner.
• Works with Manager and Quality to assist in conducting internal Quality Audits and support during customer and ISO audits.
• Conducts new hire on-boarding training.
• Utilizes Camline to ensure our production processes are in control and operators are responding to flagged items.
• Create and update standard operating procedures.
• Ensures all SOP’s on the floor, are accurate and up to date.
• Conduct critical to quality audits with operators, to ensure operators are following critical process steps and following SOPs.
• Utilizes the Ignition system to help drive smarter operations.
• Provides support to R&D projects and DOE’s with Engineers.
• Demonstrates the ability to troubleshoot, identify and resolve non-routine problems with process equipment.
• Works with Engineers to create/update Response Flow Checklists.
• Ensures process records and SAP transactions are being completed by shifts responsible for the process.
• Make sure projects are completed on time.
• Assists the Production Manager with day to day operations to ensure we are always thriving for excellence.

Qualifications

• Ability to make suggestions and informed decisions quickly.
• Possess strong organizational, leadership and time management skills.
• Highly motivated and possesses superior follow-up and follow-through skills.
• The ability to motivate, coach, and lead hourly employees.
• Educated in Engineering or Business Management preferred.
• HS diploma or GED is required.
• Minimum 5 years supervisory work experience.
• Proficiency with computers, including the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity.
• Sound leadership skills with a sense of urgency to obtain results.
• Must be willing to work flexible hours as required by the business needs.
• Ability to read, understand and write effective work instructions and perform math computations and computer data entry.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs., climb a ladder up to 15 ft. and walk and stand during entire shift.
• Good visual ability to detect quality defects.
• Ability to work flexible schedule.
• Works in a manufacturing environment.

What We Offer

• Generous 401(K) plan with an impressive employer match.
• Excellent health, dental and vision insurance packages to fit your needs.
• Flexible work schedule and 11 paid holidays a year.
• Paid time off (PTO) policy that empowers you to take the time you need to recharge.
• Values-driven culture with colleagues that rally around People, Accountability, Creativity and Excellence.
• Compensation range is $76k to $114k based on experience.
• Eligible for annual incentive bonus.