Manufacturing Supervisor

At Doncasters in Groton, CT, we have an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Supervisor to join our team.

This is a salaried opportunity to work with motivated employees and our Management Team to become a part of a successful Industrial Casting Company with good work life balance.

The Role

In this role, you will be responsible for adherence to process control procedures, operating instructions, and all quality control instructions. The primary responsibility is safely manufacturing a quality product with minimal scrap or rework, while meeting customer specifications. You will also have the opportunity to develop and train employees to meet or exceed company goals while maintaining a positive morale.

Interested?

If you have any of the below skills, we would love to talk to you about your next career move:

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations and priorities.
• Requires that the incumbent be organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently as well as work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills or the ability to develop the skills required.
• Computer literate, particularly in spreadsheet; financial; inventory and production planning and tracking applications.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, execute and deliver results in conformance with action plans.
• Provide strategic and day to day leadership for designated product mix, developing a skilled and motivated workforce to support achievement of objectives. 
• Maximize productivity through achieving operational standard hours, booking operations, monitoring recoveries, investigating underperformance and taking corrective action.
• Assist in developing and executing plan to increase overall engineering and production competitiveness, through innovation and new techniques to establish a highly competitive lean organization.
• Optimization of factory performance and efficiency, ensuring that process flow, manufacturing methods, tooling fixtures and equipment utilization are cost competitive and sustainable.
• Ensures designated product mix is driven through process to deliver OTIF; utilizing resources such as maintenance, engineering and quality as required.

Why join our team?

Doncasters of Groton is a growing business that balances the demands of the business with the needs of personal life. We are looking for self- motivated individuals who share the vision of becoming a global leader and ready to put your career in motion.

Doncasters Values:

We foster a winning mindset that enables everyone to be both safe and able to fulfil their potential. We strive for excellence, commitment, integrity and team work in the pursuit of our goals. 

Equal opportunities

Doncasters is committed to achieving workforce diversity and we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, national origin, race, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or religious belief. We provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process; if you require any support or assistance to enable a successful application, please contact careers@doncasters.com . 

• Requires a bachelor’s degree Engineering, Science or Manufacturing Technology 
• Knowledge of ERP Systems