Production Supervisor | Mon -Thursday 7pm -7am

Safety

Identify unsafe conditions and eliminate safety hazards. When an incident occurs, understand what happened, take corrective action, and reflect in the incident report. Incident reports should be reviewed by the Director of Operations for comments and corrective actions as needed. Ensure all members are trained and working safely. Regularly coach, encourage, and monitor employees for compliance with safety rules and practices.

Staffing/Training

Develop and track new operator training for a successful career in Marmon Utility. Train and cross-train operators as required to perform to the schedule as outlined by Planning. Each Supervisor will have responsibility to be a member of various committees in collaboration with Production Manager, designed to correct specific problems that have been addressed by the strategic plan, i.e., OSR/scrap reduction, material usage, safety. Measure operator efficiency and communicate progress/challenges utilizing coaching and training. Track attendance and recognize quality performance; coach each employee for success. Confer with appropriate Human Resources Representative on matters pertaining to employee/labor relations, benefits, etc.

Operations

Follow each workstation schedules, communicate with planning for schedule improvement, change or challenges. Maintain levels of production including safety, line speeds, product quality and work order quantities. Understand and communicate with KPIs in the operation floor to promote productivity targets. Eliminate downtime through efficient set-ups, material availability, and staging. Reduce downtime due to maintenance, i.e., schedule preventive maintenance.

Quality/Scrap

Ensure Quality Standards are being met throughout the entire production process and support no defects from leaving a team area. Implement and sustain Quality Control Measures. Assure that scrap is being reported by work center. Implement corrective action to reduce scrap by understanding all components that contribute to it. Collaborate with operators to correct problems. Coordinate with engineers, maintenance personnel to correct equipment, process problems.

Productivity/Lean

Promote and support Marmon Utility Lean program by engaging operators in lean activities, training, and suggestions. Develop methods to increase the efficiency of staging materials to be run at a work center - eliminate the time for searching for reels and/or materials. Develop and implement visual standards for 5S. Work with leads and team on adherence. Monitor daily team accountability to the visual standards and Good to Go. Lead team in conducting periodic 5s audits. Once implemented, hand off to team leads. Implement Corrective Actions for KPI misses. Prioritize production resources and activities to ensure the timely completion of production schedule.

Organizing Work Centers

Organize each work center to achieve maximum efficiency. Provide the required tools and other resources to achieve work center goals. Maintain good housekeeping disciplines. Reduce material handling of materials between departments and within departments.

Qualifications

• Equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years minimum within a manufacturing environment, in a supervisory capacity. Direct wire and cable experience preferred.
• Strong mechanical and process aptitude and working knowledge of wire/cable machinery.
• 2 - 4 year degree in engineering of manufacturing technology preferred, but will consider equivalent proven work experience.
• Candidate must have strong conceptual and analytical skills, organization and problem-solving ability, verbal and written communications skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Candidate must be a team player and a developer of teamwork within areas supervised.
• Preferred Lean Sigma training
• Maintenance Knowledge
• Microsoft Office Knowledge