Production Supervisor

• Acts as a role model for safety and continuous improvement
• Coaches employees to work safely, escalate unsafe conditions, and suggest improvements
• Verifies the production area is fully compliant with company, state, and federal health, safety, and environmental policies and standards
• Conducts audits to ensure safety, 5s, and first aid standards are followed and recommends corrective actions and improvements
• Communicates hazards, risks, and control measures between production teams and management
• Completes incident reports and initiates corrective actions to eliminate hazards and prevent accidents and near misses
• Verifies employees use work instructions, standard work, and the Quality Basics throughout processes
• Verifies the timely completion of the First Off Process
• Conducts hourly product and process audits to identify non-conformances and escalate recurring or serious issues
• Supports and initiates quarantine actions for nonconforming material and processes
• Communicates with support departments to coordinate actions to reduce and eliminate production losses from breakdowns, defects, and material shortages
• Identifies product and processes that do not meet customer and quality requirements and initiates deviation requests to meet delivery requirements and protect customers from non-conforming products
• Collects and analyzes scrap, rework, and other production loss information to create corrective actions to achieve goals
• Facilitates and coaches team leaders to facilitate line problem solving meetings to identify root cause and corrective actions to eliminate defects
• Coaches and assists team leaders to create corrective actions to eliminate non-conformances and protect the customer
• Supports team leader level 1 red box review as needed
• Facilitates level 2 red box review with support functions
• Facilitates level 2 Top 5 and department focus team meetings to create and monitor the progress of short- and long-term actions plans
• Reviews EPT boards hourly to coach and enforce proper use for complete, accurate, and up-to-date information
• Reviews actual vs. planned production each hour, coaches and assists team leaders to create corrective actions

Professional Background / Basic Qualification / Work Experience:

• Associate’s degree (A. A.) in Business, Management or closely related field
• Minimum three years’ experience supervising employees in a manufacturing environment