Production Supervisor

Job Overview:

The Production Supervisor is responsible for daily oversight of manufacturing operations including but not limited to management of; manufacturing operators, WIP, throughput, removing roadblocks and providing support.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure scheduled work hours align with full support of all shifts. Provide flexibility to ensure all assigned tasks and employee needs are met. Supervisor’s presence to remove road blocks and answer questions is critical to the operations team.
• Tracks and promotes cross training and employee growth opportunities, employee skill to work center alignment. Document corrections, accomplishments and improvements in employee files.
• Hold regular one on ones with direct reports; maintain documentation of discussions.
• Providing training support for new hire employees. Ensure accurate completion of training documents.
• Solicit input and complete annual employee reviews as scheduled.
• Support hiring of new operators as required.
• Recommend changes to reduce operating times and improve effectiveness in conjunction with engineering team.
• Assist in writing and revising work instructions or specifications in conjunction with Continuous Improvement and operators. 
• With Engineering Services ensure accuracy of travelers, sputter logs, plating logs and other department related documentation.
• Daily allocation of operator resources to meet the needs of production, manage accuracy of WIP and make headcount adjustments as needed.
• Monitor progress of hot jobs as identified by production planning, ensure movement of product is in alignment with scheduled expectations.
• Minimize dwell times of all WIP in manufacturing work centers.
• Support established goals to achieve objectives.
• Participate in MRB activities including review and disposition of product and carrying out scrap and rework as needed.
• Conduct daily GEMBA meetings with all operators (all shifts)
• Support the Safety Committee and incident investigations to ensure process, equipment, and employee compliance as needed.
• Determine quickly if unsafe conditions exist and direct employees out of affected areas.
• Provide coaching and feedback to manufacturing employees, this position has the authority to send direct reports home for cause. These must be reported to plant management and human resources in the same day.

 Qualifications & Skills:

• High school diploma plus 3-5 years minimum experience supervising employees in a manufacturing environment required.
• Knowledge manufacturing processes to include techniques, methods, and system implementations. 
• Strong safety and quality orientation with exposure to statistical process control and total quality techniques.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret written documentation requirements and principals. 
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, read procedure manuals, and perform basic mathematics calculations. 
• Ability to present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and other individuals as needed.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in a mathematical or diagram form. 
• Dealing with abstract or concrete variables as occur in this position.
• All applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. without restriction to ITAR documentation and materials.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, refugee, or asylee

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Supervises direct labor, manufacturing operators, technicians and foremen.