Production Supervisor

Position Summary

Responsible for directing the daily activities of production personnel to ensure that production schedules and quality standards are met for assigned departments.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES (Other Duties As Assigned)

• Directly supervises production personnel to ensure that orders are produced in a timely fashion and adhere to safety and quality standards in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.
• Must be able to learn and understand the manufacturing processes, quality standards, equipment operations, safety requirements, and departmental procedures necessary to lead and troubleshoot assigned production areas.
• Train and provide support to new and current employees to ensure complete understanding of roles and responsibilities, paperwork and processes.
• Utilize LDM (Lead Daily Management) boards to communicate department performance, track continuous improvement projects, and problem solving activities.
• Lead team collaboration meetings at LDP board to develop actions for improvement.
• Responsible to monitor and report departmental metrics such as scrap, utilization, efficiency and good cycles/man hour.
• Provides feedback in employment decisions such as performance appraisals, disciplinary actions, and the hiring and termination of production personnel.
• May perform various functions in PeopleSoft including creating jobs, printing job travelers, issuing materials, and reporting quantities.
• Helps drive the culture for Best in Class Safety
• Manage direct reports.
• Manage attendance daily in ADP.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Light to moderate physical effort required including sitting, standing, walking, kneeling, squatting, climbing steps or ladders, grasping, fine and course manipulation, reaching both forward and above head level, and tolerant of temperature changes for the entire shift.
• Must be able to deal with stressful situations in a professional manner.
• Must be able to push, pull and/or lift up to 50 pounds.