Assistant Supervisor

Suncast•Batavia, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Supervisor is responsible for overseeing material delivery, inventory accuracy, and personnel coordination within an assigned production area, referred to as a zone. This role ensures operational efficiency, compliance with procedures, and timely support of production needs. This position is a long-term growth opportunity for an ambitious, career-minded individual interested in a career with a major manufacturer of consumer products. Our philosophy is to promote from within, and we invest in our employee’s training and development through tuition reimbursement, on-the-job training, apprenticeships and more. We offer a clean manufacturing environment where safety is always job one.

Requirements

High School Diploma preferred
Five years' experience in a manufacturing position with material control experience preferred.
One or more years in a leadership position is strongly desired.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to effectively present information before the group that he or she supervises.
Ability to communicate with the hourly workforce is required.
Bilingual Spanish is a plus.
Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, and diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
This employee must be capable of learning specialized programs on a centralized computer.
At least one year of experience on a computer based inventory system is required.
Extensive course work may be substituted for work experience.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual Spanish

Responsibilities

Coordinate staging of production inventory daily requirements.
Run queries and reports in a timely manner.
Print BOM's for scheduled products.
Ensure jobs are properly set up in a timely manner, which requires printing of the layout, printing of the BOM and physically setting up work cell and ensuring start up sheet is signed. Any discrepancies are communicated to the zone manager and industrial engineer.
Ensure lane scanning is accurate and all personnel in zone is properly trained and all errors are addressed immediately and reported.
Assign work to material controller, ensuring that work is fairly and effectively distributed.
Assign work for forklift operators, ensuring that work is fairly and effectively distributed.
Request temporary help when needed to cover shift day of.
Ensure that material is available at the presses when required.
Delegate inventory, material, and production information to the appropriate employees and departments, which may include labor supervision, process management, receiving, and distribution.
Ensure inventory accuracy within assigned production areas.
Ensure transactions such as proper adjustment codes, scrap, M/C, cycle counts, and driver transactions are performed in an accurate and timely manner.
Monitor stage lanes and ensure that product is moving in and out of the staging area properly.
Ensure the proper disposition of material.
Understand both WMS IVP and Softeon.
Understand zones Cycle Count Program in both WMS IVP and Softeon.
Compare system counts to actual counts.
Determine and communicate the root cause for inventory errors.
Correct system inventory inaccuracies.
Perform cycle counts.
Take corrective action to prevent errors.
Daily train and supervise all employees within the zone, including material controllers and zone forklift drivers.
Review and train in safety with all zone employees weekly and/or as needed.
Monitor Direct Pick to ensure accuracy of inventory and communications with forklift drivers in order to bring needed components to production line.
Act as primary trainer for any additional assistant zone supervisors.
Monitor shop order status.
Use system tools such as iVP and Mattec when required.
Ensure that appropriate action for shop order closings is taken in a timely manner.
Ensure that the shop order quantity is within the determined accuracy goal and that all scrap has been accounted for and proper adjustments made.
Close shop orders when completed, which requires full cycle counts of all components of the job. Any inaccuracies will require full system cycle counts then pull all material out of production area and put away in warehouse. Then appropriate adjustments must be made before closing shop order.
Analyze daily material usage/adjustment in warehouse and zones (production floor) on a daily basis.
Have excess inventory for completed shop orders identified, counted, and removed from the work area. Return excess to the receiving warehouse or staging areas.
Use computer-based production information systems to plan shift work assignments in assigned production area.
Ensure zone personnel are using approved counting, labeling and transaction methods.
Ensure that Labor, IE, and QA have accurate container counts and stack patterns.
Assist in the process by notifying industrial engineering of incorrect standard counts.
Document findings using email.
Ensure zone personnel are up to date on all new zone related changes in technology, methods, and materials for this position.
Support and comply with all Suncast safety policies, quality standards, and housekeeping methods at all times.
Explain company policies to workers and enforce safety PPE regulations daily.
Confer with the department manager on staffing, hiring, and disciplining employees.
Understand the employee bargaining agreement (union contract) and ensure that work methods and discipline are in accordance with that agreement.
Initiate or suggest plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
Assist workers in resolving work-related problems.
Maintain employee time-keeping records in a timely and accurate fashion.
Monitor shift employees in their daily labor tracking swipes.
Monitor Lunch and Break times.
Attend shift change production meetings.
Send shift notes via email daily.
Communicate verbally in shift change meetings.
May have to attend other related meetings as required.