Production Supervisor

Responsible for assigned area aspects of the production floor, including personnel, machines, facility, equipment, and all necessary support systems for manufacturing processes.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinates the flow of work through departments and ensures departments have sufficient levels of inventory to meet demand and are staffed appropriately.
• Plan and direct production activities and establish production goals and priorities to effectively execute the production schedule, manage internal cost factors, meet quality requirements, and achieve timely service to customers.
• Prepare production status reports: sales dollars, schedule hours, delivery performance, scrap calculations, etc.
• Responsible for the direct management of the production floor, taking into account internal and external supplier relationships, production schedules, quality standards, continuous improvement, and cost standards.
• Oversees and directs the activities of the production supervisors, cell leaders, and operators, on all shifts of production.
• Reviews, provides guidance for changes, approves and executes the production schedule, ensuring the schedule is both achievable and well-executed.
• Collaborate with purchasing, maintenance, engineering, scheduling, and quality control to ensure effective production performance, communicating as required to generate timely and adequate support.
• Advise management of changes, risks and opportunities related to production resources, including manpower requirements.
• Develops and effectively executes departmental goals, objectives, and projects.
• Performs multiple daily walk-through reviews of all production areas, providing coaching and direction to staff as required to ensure high performance.
• Leads the lean culture of the production floor, including Gemba, 5S, and kaizen practices, ensuring adequate training and expectations of the organization.
• Sets, measures, and accomplishes departmental continuous improvement goals, including cost, quality, safety, schedule attainment, OEE, individual development and performance, housekeeping, and preventative maintenance programs.
• Develops cell leaders and shift supervisors in counseling production workers on personnel problems and resolution of employee concerns.
• Working in concert with site and divisional Human Resources, plans staffing levels required to meet production requirements; requisitions new and replacement personnel, approves new hires, and manages staff performance (including improvement plans and dismissals when appropriate).
• Assists in development of all new training and development programs to assure employee and product quality.
• Works in coordination with New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineers and other staff regarding product development and process improvements, ensuring the timely and quality execution of NPI requirements.

SKILLS:

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and employee development skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing and six sigma methodology/practices.
• Problem solving skills.
• Project management skills.
• Attention to detail.

EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION:  

• 4 Year / Bachelors Degree preferred.
• 0-3 Production/manufacturing experience
• 3-6 Employee management/supervisory role

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required throughout the workday to sit, stand, walk, use hand/finger to grasp/pinch/grip. Employee is occasionally required to climbing (stairs); stoop/knee/crouch/crawl, operate machinery and/or power tools, and operator motor vehicles or heavy equipment. Must occasionally be able to pull, push, lift and carry up to 20 pounds.
• Work performed in both an office and production floor environment. The noise level ranges from low to high volumes.