Production Supervisor

About the role

This position involves assisting in the orientation, training, development, and assignment of employees within their department. Leadership direction is provided for the assigned team.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Enforce safety regulations.
• Determine daily department requirements using input from planning tools and production manager, to ensure that daily goals are met.
• Provide training as needed to meet department needs.
• Identify daily work tasks for the team members utilizing the work orders.
• Accountable for daily/weekly metrics with respect to cost, schedule, quality and safety.
• Cookordinate activities and communicate with Planning, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality Control, and Human Resources Departments as needed.
• Participate and cultivate team engagement in 6S and process improvement programs; i.e. CITI program, 6S audits, etc.
• Ability to track daily performance using charts, graphs or other metric programs.
• Direct and perform duties as needed to meet department needs; use correct procedures in a teamwork environment.
• Inspect components for fit and finish / or interpret departmental trends for anomalies and inform Department Manager of any issues.
• Conform with the organization’s ISO 9001 & 14001 requirements.
• Assist Production Manager with various tasks as requested.
• Aid in the creation and development of systems, processes, and metrics to drive and maintain improvement across the entire factory.
• Generate and coordinate execution of measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and quality of products.
• Assist production personnel in solving work-related problems.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and one to three years of related experience in a factory or manufacturing environment and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Ability: For business and safety reasons, ability to write reports and business correspondence in English and effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, technicians, and assemblers in English.
• Quality Commitment: Assist the organization with establishing practices that align with ISO requirements.