Operations Supervisor - AWS 1st Shift LPC Manufacturing

Woodward, Inc.•Loves Park, IL

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for an Operations Supervisor at Woodward, a global leader in energy conversion and control solutions for the aerospace and industrial equipment markets. Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace, fostering integrity, respect, accountability, humility, and a drive for excellence. The company designs and delivers energy control solutions that power a clean future and enable a decarbonized world. The role involves providing direct support to front-line team members to meet daily production targets, effectively allocating and coordinating resources, conducting performance evaluations, managing member development, and ensuring accountability and policy adherence. The supervisor will also identify and resolve day-to-day technical and operational issues, coach problem-solving capabilities, and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness. Woodward emphasizes a culture of innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving, seeking dedicated individuals who want to learn and grow in a supportive and inclusive environment. The company values contributions from all members and is focused on solving global energy challenges through reducing emissions, enabling alternative energy sources, and increasing efficiency.

Requirements

Leadership: The ability to guide, motivate, and inspire teams to achieve goals while fostering collaboration, accountability, and a positive work environment.
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving: The ability to analyze situations, evaluate options, and develop effective solutions using logic, creativity, and sound judgment.
Operational Management: The ability to oversee daily operations, optimize processes, allocate resources effectively, and ensure productivity while meeting organizational goals and maintaining quality standards. Adjusts resources and priorities based on capacity, material availability, and customer demand.
Team Communication: Sets example and models excellent communication skills with internal stakeholders, support teams, and with own team.
Time Management: Ability to identify critical tasks and allocate time and resources accordingly. Balances urgent production needs with short-term improvement initiatives. Consistently meets production and delivery targets. Manages competing priorities without compromising quality or safety.
Lean Mindset: Follows lean practices such as 5S and waste reduction. Participates and support continuous improvement activities. Ability to effectively leads the team through 5S, Visual Management, standardized work, and Daily Management System.
Computer Skills: Strong skills in Excel, Power BI, or Tableau for operational reporting. Ability to analyze production data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities. Proficiency in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP. Basic understanding of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for inventory and production scheduling.
Emotional Intelligence: The ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions while effectively perceiving and responding to the emotions of others. This includes skills such as empathy, self-awareness, emotional regulation, social awareness, and relationship management to foster positive interactions and resolve challenges constructively.
Must be a U.S. Person within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Responsibilities

Provide direct support to front line team members in meeting their daily production targets to ensure customer expectations are met.
Allocates and coordinates resources effectively to meet operational objectives.
Conducts performance evaluations, provides feedback, manages member development, recognition and ensures accountability and policy adherence.
Identifies and resolves day-to-day technical and operational issues and coaching and mentoring team's problem-solving capabilities.
Collaborates with key stakeholders to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness to improve the production system and meet customer demand.