Supervisor, Shop

Responsibilities

• Manages and oversees all daily operations including the supervision of personnel.
• Assists with and troubleshoots production issues, safety, environmental and anything else that impacts the smooth operation of the Shop.
• Ensures that manufacturing schedules are met through the allocation of manpower, space, and machinery.
• Works with maintenance department, PMs of equipment and others to prioritize equipment repair to minimize the impact to jobs and worker health and safety.
• Is the first resource in settling disputes or answering questions related to schedule or job operation.
• Works with tool room attendant to monitor consumables and tool status.
• Works with welding committee to review applicants, to provide and monitor procedures and to create educational opportunities for shop personnel.
• Communicates with QC manager at appropriate times to schedule quality control inspections or testing per project mandated procedures.
• Monitors floor production to ensure that shop employees are following correct procedures and are staying "on-task".
• Reviews shop employee’s performance at least twice per year and makes recommendations as to wage rates or bonus levels. Performs face to face evaluation of employees to apprise them of their current performance level and improvement goals. Seeks feedback for overall improvement and employee opinion on project status.
• Communicates status to project managers at the Weekly Shop meeting. Keeps them informed of major status changes that would require their immediate attention. Gives project manager feedback as to conditions that will have an impact on the scheduling of their jobs.
• Is knowledgeable of machinery and shop capabilities in all buildings so that s/he can efficiently utilize our full capacity.
• Referring to their own familiarity with fabrication processes, metal alloys and properties, relates that knowledge to project personnel to assist them in creating work that can run through the shop efficiently.
• With the understanding of blueprints and part layouts ("stretch-outs"), works with detailers or project managers to ensure accuracy of part dimensions and requirements.
• Reconciles daily labor hours on all projects for compilation by M2M (ERP system) labor reporting.
• Looks for ways to increase overall shop efficiency.
• Assists project managers as needed.
• Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned.
• Maintains the confidentiality of customer and