Production Supervisor
The Willamette Valley Company · Pineville, LA · 2 mo ago
ManufacturingFull-time
Primary Duties
- Work with and direct Bldg. Leads to ensure daily production activities are planned for success.
- This includes Packaging Machine Lead, Filling Machine Lead, and Bldg. 2 Lead.
- Responsible for ensuring all shop orders are closed under appropriate guidelines including variance clarification i.e. why is a variance high or low.
- Maintain Shop Orders and shop order variance reporting to a 95% accuracy or higher.
- Monitor OEE to drive improvement opportunities in various areas using the Vorne system to understand where biggest opportunities are.
- Support improvements in quality, inventory, and maintenance procedures, policies, and/or methods within the manufacturing process.
- Increase productivity through improvement of existing machinery, revised methods or packaging, or other means.
- Reduce all possible forms of waste, including scrap, i.e. boxes, tubes, purge, damaged goods.
- Responsible for prioritizing equipment repair needs via work order system, including the prioritization of said repairs, planned and unplanned.
- Review operating reports and help resolve operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays.
Essential Duties
- Safety improvements, safety training, and safety reporting in compliance with EHS standards.
- This includes a 95% or higher completion rate on monthly training.
- Ensure all employees are properly trained in use of equipment and raw materials handling to meet safety compliance and processes.
- Develop or revise standard operational and working practices and observe workers to ensure compliance with standards.
- Ensure all Quality manufacturing processes are followed, and employees are trained in proper procedures for assigned tasks.
- This includes a 95% or higher quality accuracy expectation as a metric for success, this will be measured during line check audits.
- Perform miscellaneous duties as requested by Assistant Plant Manager, Director of Operations.