Pour End Production Supervisor - FIRST Shift

Alene Candles•Milford, NH

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Alene Candles LLC is seeking a Pour End Production Supervisor on 1st Shift to oversee pour end manufacturing. The ideal candidate will possess extensive hands-on experience in Manufacturing Operations, excellent people skills, and solid technical knowledge. This role involves assisting the Pour Manager in managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. The supervisor will manage permanent and temporary employees in the pour and reheat zones, focusing on safety, quality, productivity, cost reduction, continuous improvement, and 5S. Experience with modern manufacturing methodologies, including Lean Manufacturing, is expected. Responsibilities include staffing, training, achieving efficiency standards, ensuring product quality, and meeting scheduled completion dates. The role also involves learning ERP systems for material setup and inventory accuracy, driving 5S and continuous improvement initiatives, and maintaining high work area efficiency and employee morale. Safety compliance is paramount, ensuring employees' well-being.

Requirements

3-5 years of related experience and/or training in a manufacturing environment.
Bachelor’s Degree in Production Management or Business Administration (experience will be considered in lieu of education).
Knowledge and ability to operate various machines.
Ability to communicate equipment issues to maintenance & supervisors.
Effective verbal & written communication skills to deliver valuable teamwork (must understand English language).
Solid proficiency in use of PCs/information systems as a management tool, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Not afraid to adopt a hands-on approach and learn (and perfect) assembly techniques.
Understands capacity planning and has a vision for plant layout and workflow.
Must have excellent teamwork, strong verbal, and written communication skills.
Solid coaching, mentoring, and motivation skills.
Must be able to foster an environment of mutual respect and professionalism on all levels.
Experience with 5S, poke-yoke implementation, and Kaizen events.
Action-oriented individual with a strong emphasis on closure and implementation.

Nice To Haves

Extensive hands-on experience in Manufacturing Operations.
Excellent people skills combined with solid technical knowledge.
First-hand experience with modern manufacturing methodology including Lean Manufacturing.
Mathematical Skills – Understanding of basic math concepts. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, and ratios.
Experience with ERP systems.

Responsibilities

Ensures a safe work environment by communicating safety requirements, auditing, tracking, and providing feedback and corrective actions to employees and management.
Participates in safety meetings/evaluations.
Supervises teams of employees in a process environment in the manufacturing of candles and home fragrance products.
Conducts daily attendance checks (physical and within ShopVue) and reports inaccuracies to Pour Manager.
Acts as a team member of the supervisory and management staff, chairing meetings, offering opinions, supporting initiatives, and treating co-workers with respect.
Establishes and/or participates in the creation of schedules and ensures timely completion of commitments.
Responsible for early detection of barriers to achieving schedule and providing workarounds and solutions.
Establishes priorities; monitors progress; revises production schedules; resolves problems and reports results on shift production.
Works with engineering to establish efficiency standards and measures performance to targets, tracks, reports, conducts root cause analysis, and corrective actions to maintain and improve efficiencies.
Improves efficiencies of line production.
Organizes and conducts skills assessments and coordinates training to promote learning and address gaps in capabilities, with cross-training as a key component.
Accountable for the accurate accounting of materials while in the care of manufacturing and the timely return of those materials to stores if not consumed in the pouring process.
Collects data, crafts metrics, monitors trends and reports to management on the health and well-being of manufacturing.
Works with the pour leads as well as the wax department to ensure smooth start-ups and shutdowns.
Conducts carry-over meetings between shifts to ensure critical and pertinent information is passed between shifts.
Communicates equipment issues to maintenance and monitors timely completions of repairs and improvements.
Maintains product quality, identifies defects, and provides root cause and corrective actions as required.
Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and personnel requirements to streamline and sustain change.
Maintains a safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of 5S.
Conducts 5S audits and communicates issues and corrective actions to teams, acting as the 5S champion in manufacturing.
Observes and promotes changes and improvements and sustains 5S.
Consults with the Pour and Manufacturing Managers, as well as Human Resources to resolve personnel and staffing issues.
Evaluates, develops, and disciplines employees.
Conducts all operations in accordance with state and federal laws, good business ethics, company policies, principles, and procedures under the direction of the Plant and Manufacturing Managers.
Resolves personnel problems by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action.
Manages and develops strong leadership skills in line leaders and key production staff.
Performs other duties as assigned by the Pour Manager.
Ensures that all people throughout production lines are rotated systematically for cross-training purposes as well as safety and ergonomic reasons.
Provides Production Supervision personnel with a daily shift notes report, including major downtime, quality issues, mechanical issues, inventory issues, and corrective actions taken.