Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Who We Are:
Driven by continual innovation and trusted partnerships, ODL is a global leader in high-quality door and insulated glass solutions. For decades, our purpose has been simple: Make Your Life Better™—for our customers, our communities, and our people.

With 14 global locations and thousands of employees, ODL has been recognized as a Great Place to Work® across all countries of operation. We invest in our people, celebrate growth, and foster a culture where accountability, innovation, and excellence thrive.

Responsibilities:

-Quality

• Ensure the team’s performance and accountability to zero defects.

• Identify and solve department problems that cause poor quality

• Partner with customer service and quality teams to ensure the identification of quality issues and their root causes, as well as design and implement solutions.

• Manage and monitor compliance to quality plan.

• Follow up to ensure jobs are completed to requirements and satisfaction.

• Audit processes and procedures on a daily basis to ensure they are followed.

• Provide training, coaching, and accountability to employees when needed.

• Conducts annual performance reviews.

-Service

• Ensure 100% on time delivery of quality products to the customer.

• Responsible for accurate and timely receiving and shipping of material to external and internal customer facilities.

• Confer with supervisors of other departments to coordinate flow of materials or products.

• Monitor daily staffing resources and balances employee resources across the department based on daily production needs. 

• Interact with Manufacturing, Material Planning, Purchasing, and Maintenance personnel in local and offsite facilities in support of production and capacity planning needs.

• Support Coordinator in interpreting job orders to workers, and assigns duties.

- Value

• Continuously improve the processes of operations by eliminating waste and creating processes that add value to the customer.

- Pull System

• Create an operation that produces product only to customer demand using one piece flow.

-Safety

• Program and ensure a safe working environment for all employees and visitors.

• Implements and commits to 5S principles.

• Ensure safety training and development is complete & administer safety policies & procedures

• Manage and monitor the achievement of corporate and plant environmental goals.

• Ensure employees follow ODL safety procedures and have the proper licensing before operating equipment and machinery.

• Oversee housekeeping and maintenance in area of responsibility.

• Ensures that equipment and facilities are properly maintained.

- Professional Challenge / Participation

• Motivate and involve employees in improving processes through creativity, problem solving and learning.

• Set expectations, teach, encourage, coach and hold team members accountable to utilize standardized work to improve operations.

• Implement improvements by day by day kaizen.

• Solicit team member ideas for improvement and create a work environment where employees are encouraged to take risks and share their ideas.

• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.

-Recognition / Feedback

• Demonstrate outstanding performance aligned with corporate objectives.

• Provide timely feedback including performance evaluations, coaching and discipline.

-Staffing / Development

• Responsible for employee selection (determine staffing levels and skills required) and training.

• Help team members develop new skills that allow them to increase their contribution to the operation.

• Approves and monitors overtime and vacation on a regular basis, ensuring the budget and internal and external customer requirements are met.

• Maintains time and production records.

-Continuous Improvement

• Improve capabilities by utilizing people’s skills to solve problems proactively and constantly move towards the ideal situation.

• Engage in kaizen activities every day to proactively go after problems with manufacturing focus.

• Establish or adjust work procedures to meet production schedules.

• Look for ways to eliminate waste, improve safety, improve quality, and improve the work environment for team members.

• Use all team members’ feedback to develop and implement improvements.

• Evaluates improvement proposals for work areas and coordinates with other resources when needed to evaluate possibilities.

• Use problem solving and continuous improvement tools to solve problems and improve processes.

- Operations Focus

• Responsible for spending 80% of time directly with your team members where place in an effort to understand the current status of the operation and gain direct input from employees in order to make improvements.

• Analyze and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.

• Report department measures to employees and leadership on a daily basis.

• Leads daily departmental meetings and occasionally leads continuous improvement events or projects.

Requirements:

• Two years of leadership experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred

• Ability to express ideas effectively with well-developed interpersonal and communication skills and professionalism.

• Conflict resolution

• Ability to identify and understand issues and make appropriate decisions.

• Proficient in quality system fundamentals and continuous improvement activities.

• Effective written and verbal communication and office equipment usage.

• Critical competencies include: integrity, trust, customer orientation, job knowledge, decisiveness, relationship building, effective communication, systemic thinking, future focused, managing and developing talent, flexibility, innovation and business knowledge.

The Value We Offer:

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Hybrid work environment

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Paid Vacation and 10 Holidays

• Health Club Reimbursement

• Bonus program

• Wellness program

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