Manufacturing Supervisor (7 days on 7 days off Rotating Shifts Days/Midnights) - Cottage Grove, MN

3M•Cottage Grove, MN

41d•Onsite

About The Position

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career. As a Manufacturing Supervisor, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. You will make an impact by promoting a safe and sustainable working environment, cultivating and leading a team, scheduling work priorities, providing coaching and feedback, monitoring production rates, yields, and quality, leading, coaching and developing employees, implementing advanced working knowledge and interpretation of corporate and site policies and procedures, and ensuring shift administrative activities are properly implemented and documented. You will also represent the plant leadership team by supporting initiatives across the plant, including supervision coverage for alternative shifts and supporting 24/7 production through flexible work schedules when required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of two (2) years of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting.
OR High School diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution and a minimum of four (4) years of combined experience working in a manufacturing or production environment in a private, public, government or military setting.
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.
Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
Previous supervisory experience.
Experience in one or more of the following: project leadership, team leadership, supervisory, and/or management.
Self-directed and detail oriented.
Good interpersonal, communication, prioritization, organizational skills, and computer skills.
Create, lead and work in a team atmosphere.
Communicate written and verbally clearly and concisely and influence changes with operators as well as other plant employees and management team members.
Identification and resolution of process issues.
Use of continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma) to provide impact through cost reduction programs, quality improvements, and safety of work environments.

Responsibilities

Promoting a safe and sustainable working environment through modeling safe behaviors as well as recognizing and resolving safety related problems.
Actively lead incident investigations, including presenting incident resolutions to site leadership.
Cultivating and leading a team by encouraging and implementing cross training activities, cooperation, innovation, flexibility, and teamwork.
Scheduling work priorities consistent with engineering directives, coordinating maintenance activities, allocating work assignments, communicating expectations and monitoring workflow.
Providing coaching and feedback to employees and utilizing corrective action to resolve conflict and inappropriate behaviors.
Monitoring production rates, yields, and quality of products routinely, communicating results to employees and leveraging continuous improvement tools to improve scheduling, quality, and efficiency.
Leading, coaching and developing employees through direct supervisor, floor presence, monitoring and coaching of production employees, providing recognition, overseeing training completion, policy administration and participating in hiring processes.
Implementing advanced working knowledge and interpretation of corporate and site policies and procedures.
Ensuring shift administrative activities such as time reporting, attendance control, vacation planning, overtime, etc. are properly implemented and documented.
Representing plant leadership team through supporting initiatives across the plant, including but not limited to supervision coverage for alternative shifts and supporting 24/7 production through flexible work schedules when required.
Complying with corporate policies, procedures and security standards while performing assigned duties.
Contributing to a strong Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture by following safety policies, identifying hazards, and engaging in continuous improvement.