Production Supervisor (Night Shift)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitates the manufacture of building products to meet production demands, while ensuring quality, safety, and environmental responsibility.
• In conjunction with appropriate plant leadership, develops and implements staffing guidelines to maximize utilization of human resources while controlling labor costs.
• Hires, supervises, evaluates, and replaces staff as required to ensure performance objectives are met/exceeded.
• Maintain a high degree of leadership and supervisory skills including Developing and training direct reports so they are prepared career advancements and increasing responsibilities; performance evaluations and address feedback; and lead shift meetings for Safety and Production items as instructed by the manager.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to include 5S and conversion cost reduction.
• Provides technical leadership and training to shift personnel in areas that may include line setup/operation, testing, tooling, troubleshooting, machine metrics definition/reporting, changeover, safety procedures, record keeping, and training facilitation.
• Identifies potential career paths for employees and works with employees to develop their skills and knowledge for career advancement.
• Provides documentation and follow up to training and job responsibilities.
• Interviews with qualified candidates for manufacturing positions and recommend candidates for hire.
• Sets up and operates production lines, troubleshoots problems, and makes adjustments to maintain production efficiency.
• Assigns personnel to production areas and oversees line or area rotations and break schedules during assigned shift(s) by maintaining a high degree of communication to accomplish seamless shift changes and troubleshooting progress.
• Completes or oversees completion of paperwork relative to line operation, operator logs, PM logs, audits, and corrective action.
• Being agile work to respond to any short notice production or shipping needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of progressively responsible supervisory/leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Highly developed oral and written communication skills, combined with the ability to educate and train non-degreed operators and technicians in a production environment.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, motivate, mentor and train employees on a regular basis.
• Highly skilled and motivated individual proficient in all areas of production operation.
• Possesses a high degree of current quality standards and checks.
• Proficient in STOP and 5S principles.
• Upper level mathematical and mechanical skills required.
• Excellent attendance record.