Overview:
We are seeking a dynamic Production Supervisor to lead and motivate our manufacturing team, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards are met on the shop floor. If you have a passion for hands-on leadership, continuous improvement, and driving team success in a fast-paced environment, apply today!
Position Summary:
Oversee the day-to-day operation activities including direct supervision of associates. Daily planning, organizing, directing, motivating, problem-solving, and continuous improvement on the shop floor. Assure the assigned team is meeting objectives in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Daily supervision/leading of Manufacturing Associates
- Influence safe associate behavior; set expectations for following safety procedures and safe behaviors.
- Perform as a working member of the team as necessary to meet production targets, set the pace/
- Demonstrate work methods and ensure that team members are trained to complete all tasks
- Assign work to associates and monitor both the efficiency and quality of their work
- Ensure all work procedures are followed
- Manage vacation and time off requests for the team
- Ensure that the payroll records are accurate for team members via i.e. Labor Tracker
- Deliver and participate in disciplinary activities with Human Resources
- Participate in the interview/selection of team members
- Attend and participate in shift handoff meetings
- Fairly and consistently promote, enforce, and reinforce all company policies
- Conduct associate performance reviews in a timely manner
- Lead team in the application of lean manufacturing tools, including 5S, Visual Management, 7 Forms of Waste, Continuous Improvement (Kaizen), Poke Yoke, and Root Cause Corrective action
- Ensure that team boards are completed accurately and on time and that metrics are utilized to develop corrective actions and drive continuous improvement.
Education/ Skills/ Experience:
Two-year degree in supervision, management, business, or a related area and 3 years of supervisory/management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience in Lean manufacturing preferred
- Demonstrated leadership, engagement, and mentoring skills
- Enthusiastic and possess the ability to motivate others
- Ability to maintain excellent attendance record
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Be seen as the best source of credible information for their associates and respected by other associates.
- Managerial skills: technical, motivate, communicate, conflict resolution, conceptual, diagnostic
Physical Demands:
- Ability to be on the factory floor for long periods of time.
- Potentially working across all shifts at times with the stamina to work 50+ hours per week to support plant performance.
- Work in an industrial environment where there will be exposure to elevated high heat and humidity, fiberglass dust, and hazardous chemicals.
- In a safety-sensitive, demanding, detail-oriented, deadline-driven environment that requires simultaneous handling of multiple priorities.
- Lifting and carrying up to 25-50lbs.
- Use of manual, electric, and pneumatic hand tools.
- Standing, sitting, bending, kneeling, squatting, ladder and stair climbing, and occasionally crawling, twisting, and lying.
- Reaching and repetitive manipulation of hands for simple grasping, pushing, and pulling.
- Wearing of personal protective equipment including, but not limited to safety glasses, gloves, protective garments, and respirators.