Department Supervisor 3rd Shift

Valence•Garden Grove, CA

15h•Onsite

About The Position

This position reports to the Operation Manager and is an onsite, non-exempt role. The schedule is typically 10pm - 6:30am, but may change due to business needs. The supervisor is responsible for organizing their assigned area, ensuring ready access to and knowledge of all orders in process, and maintaining an orderly and well-kept shop. They must operate within established safety, quality, and financial guidelines, and keep current on project and overall shop performance. This role involves monitoring the department budget, working with the manager to resolve problems, and planning for improvements. The supervisor collaborates with Production Management and supervisors on other shifts/departments to determine work schedules, maintains schedules, and reassigns labor as workload changes. They must execute the schedule with urgency and a concern for safety, quality, timeliness, and cost consciousness. Effective supervision of employees is crucial, including organizing work, assigning tasks, communicating regularly with employees, seeking their input, clarifying responsibilities, delegating appropriately, counseling on performance issues, providing assistance and training, and initiating disciplinary actions when necessary. The supervisor also trains employees on safety procedures and proper techniques, and ensures they understand and can perform safe lifting and maneuvering of materials. They must resolve technical problems and challenges by involving the appropriate people to keep production moving and meet customer expectations. Participation in improvement teams, Gemba walks, and meetings is also required, along with continuous process improvement activities focused on reducing costs, streamlining processes, and increasing throughput. The supervisor must stay current on industry trends and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED): Required
3 plus years of experience in manufacturing
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office
Vision (Near, Distance)
Sense of Sound - Able to hear average conversations

Responsibilities

Organizes assigned area to ensure ready access to and knowledge of all orders currently in process on a daily work basis.
Effectively communicates with customer service regarding work that is in the area or coming to the area for processing.
Maintains the shop in an orderly 5S and well-kept manner.
Operates within established safety, quality, and financial guidelines.
Keeps current on project and overall shop performance, understands and monitors department budget, works with manager to resolve problems and plans for improvements.
Works closely with Production Management and supervisors on other shifts/departments to determine daily, weekly, and monthly work schedules.
Maintains schedule and reassigns labor as work load changes.
Knows what needs to be done on a daily basis to keep the work moving through the production process.
Executes schedule with a sense of urgency, and with sincere concern for safety, quality, timeliness, and cost consciousness.
Maintains and monitors appropriate documentation on all orders.
Effectively supervises employees in the shop.
Organizes work to be done and assigns accordingly, follows dashboard requirements while working with customer service to exceed customer expectations.
Communicates with employees regularly and seeks their input on issues in regard to problem solving.
Clarifies responsibility and expected results.
Delegates responsibility to employees where appropriate.
Gives adequate direction, counsels employees on performance issues/concerns, provides assistance and/or training where appropriate.
Initiates disciplinary actions where necessary according to established procedures.
Works with manager and human resources to resolve problems as needed.
Trains employees and monitors their performance on Valence Surface Technologies safety procedures and proper Valence techniques for all production processes and movement of materials in/out/around the shop.
Understands and ably performs (and ensures that others understand and can perform) appropriate and safe techniques for lifting and maneuvering materials in various stages of completion.
Understands and institutes the methods needed to get the work done in a timely and efficient manner.
Resolves technical problems and challenges by involving the appropriate people in order to keep production moving, to meet/exceed customer expectations.
Participates in improvement teams, Gemba walks, and meetings as requested.
Participates in continuous process improvement activities always looking for new ways to do the job with eye to reducing cost, streamlining processes, and increasing throughput.
Keeps current on industry trends, innovations, and changes that may affect production operations.
Perform other duties as assigned.