Production Supervisor

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Coaches:
  • Independently supervises staff in daily operations, effectively coach, guide and manage employee issues and concerns.
  • Champion a People First culture by fostering an environment built on trust, respect, accountability, inclusion, and open communication.
  • Support and model company values by demonstrating integrity, empathy, accountability, and servant leadership in all interactions.
  • Coaches and counsel’s employees on a timely basis regarding behavior, skills and attitude to form and maintain a high-performance team.
  • Uses tact and good judgment when correcting production errors or settling disputes.
  • Ensure timely and meaningful recognition of individual and team achievements that support company values, safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement.
  • Foster a culture where employee feedback is actively sought, valued, and acted upon to improve the work environment and overall employee experience.
  • Ensure people are working to capacity and within a reasonable workload.
  • Resolves day-to-day problems that workers may have with their jobs.
  • Educates employees on company policy and enforces policy in a fair and consistent manner.
• Leading assigned function:
  • Responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, performance assessment, making salary recommendations and delivering employee counseling for assigned employees.
  • Ensures work performed is safe, accurate, timely and efficient, compliant with corporate policies.
  • Determines production schedule, update schedule board and communicate daily production schedule.
  • Ensures cost effectiveness, quality standards and safety requirements are attainable in the production process.
  • Actively evaluates current and future needs of equipment and employees.
  • Ensures adequate material supply for current and next shift.
  • Led and participates in investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ensures hours are correct and approved in time system per guidelines.
  • Ensures equipment is operational and production efficiently targets are being realized.
  • Collaborates with other supervisors ensuring production goals are expeditiously completed and to assure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
  • Communicates with maintenance on equipment issues and concerns.
  • Maintains open line of communications with other departments and business functions.
  • Executes and coordinates departmental training.

Requirements

• Associate/bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Strong team player
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Capable of covering absences of their next level manager.

Performance Factors

• Demonstration of skills and knowledge required to perform the responsibilities and duties of the position.
• Demonstrates the ability to make logical, responsible, and timely decisions while effectively prioritizing work requirements and meeting established deadlines.
• Demonstrate commitment to servant leadership and employee development.
• Performs work according to requirements with regards to appearance, quality, completeness, whether self-initiated or supervised.
• Demonstrates the ability to accept change and adapt to a variety of assignments and circumstances.
• Proven ability to create employee engagement and maintain a positive workplace culture.
• Looking for the good in other people, circumstances, and events and especially in ourselves.
• Ability to think and act in an appropriate manner without being instructed in great detail.
• Ability to lead organizational change while maintaining employee commitment and morale.
• Works with co-workers in a collective, collaborative manner to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
• Conforms to established work schedule. Is available to perform position requirements as necessary.
• Proactive demonstration of adherence to company policy and guidelines in creating a safe work environment.

Preferred Experience

• General Management experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Background with manufacturing practices/methods and process improvement programs
• Manufacturing & Operations, Operations