Manufacturing Supervisor

Doncasters Group•Groton, CT

22h•Onsite

About The Position

At Doncasters in Groton, CT, we have an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Supervisor to join our team. This is a salaried opportunity to work with motivated employees and our Management Team to become a part of a successful Industrial Casting Company with good work life balance. Various Shifts available. Doncasters is a leading international manufacturer of specialist superalloys and high-performance alloy components, providing critical solutions to demanding industries including aerospace, Industrial Gas Turbines, automotive, medical, and other specialist sectors. With a heritage spanning nearly 250 years, we’ve built a global reputation for technical excellence, innovation, and engineering. Today, we operate across 20 sites worldwide, employing almost 3,000 professionals. At Doncasters, we believe in doing things the right way, acting with integrity, delivering with commitment, and working as one team to achieve more, together.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor’s degree Engineering, Science or Manufacturing Technology or 5 or more years of experience, and at least 1 year managing a group in lieu of degree.
Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
Advanced PC skills and knowledge of ERP Systems.
Requires that the incumbent be organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently as well as work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Computer literate, particularly in spreadsheet; financial; inventory and production planning and tracking applications.
Demonstrated ability to develop, execute and deliver results in conformance with action plans.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others preferred.

Responsibilities

Adherence to process control procedures, operating instructions, and all quality control instructions.
Safely manufacturing a quality product with minimal scrap or rework, while meeting customer specifications.
Develop and train employees to meet or exceed company goals while maintaining a positive morale.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations and priorities.
Provide strategic and day to day leadership for designated product mix, developing a skilled and motivated workforce to support achievement of objectives.
Maximize productivity through achieving operational standard hours, booking operations, monitoring recoveries, investigating underperformance and taking corrective action.
Assist in developing and executing plan to increase overall engineering and production competitiveness, through innovation and new techniques to establish a highly competitive lean organization.
Optimization of factory performance and efficiency, ensuring that process flow, manufacturing methods, tooling fixtures and equipment utilization are cost competitive and sustainable.
Ensures designated product mix is driven through process to deliver OTIF; utilizing resources such as maintenance, engineering and quality as required.