2nd Shift Supervisor

Cooper Standard•Spring Lake, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The 2nd Shift Supervisor is responsible for fostering a respectful, welcoming, and safe work environment where employees are empowered to perform their best. Key duties include ensuring manufacturing plans and customer specifications are met, training and empowering employees and team leaders, communicating work rules, assessing performance, and managing employee coaching and discipline. The supervisor also identifies and controls operational risks, ensures safety training and compliance, participates in incident investigations, maintains accurate production reports, and organizes work schedules including breaks, overtime, vacation, and absence coverage. Additionally, the role involves ensuring adherence to quality procedures, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, facilitating inter-shift communication, participating in management meetings, and leading safety-related processes.

Requirements

More than 3 years practical experience in supervision / management
Ability to identify and resolve day to day technical and operational problems.
Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
Computer competency required, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.

Responsibilities

Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
Participate in or lead safety-related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
Ensure that HSE legal and management system requirements for work areas are met.