Production Specialist - Lonoke II - 4A shift

Remington • Lonoke, AR

17h • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Specialist is responsible for ensuring efficient application of people and resources to meet delivery requirements while maintaining quality and safety standards. This role involves identifying and deploying technical skill sets, resource levels, and systems for project delivery, including engaging internal and external resources. The specialist ensures team members are trained, follow procedures, and comply with quality requirements. Key duties include performing root cause analysis, resolving problems, and fostering a team-oriented environment through open communication. The position also focuses on continuous improvement by identifying, evaluating, and recommending enhancements for safety, product/process quality, productivity, manufacturing costs, and schedule performance. The Production Specialist analyzes production performance, addresses capacity issues, and drives corrective actions for long-term problem prevention. They are responsible for identifying, providing, and documenting employee training needs to ensure competency. Daily interaction with various manufacturing support groups like maintenance, warehouse, engineering, production planning, quality, and purchasing is essential for providing critical information and feedback. The role requires working with individuals at all organizational levels to achieve company objectives, responding to employee questions and concerns, and conducting performance evaluations. Additionally, the specialist performs accident investigations, safety observations, and audits, communicates daily departmental activities to the next shift supervisor, and ensures inventory accuracy by investigating discrepancies and implementing corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Work to ensure people and resources are applied in an efficient manner to meet delivery requirements while achieving quality and safety standards.
• Identify and deploy technical skill sets, resource levels and systems to deliver projects, including the engagement of internal and external resources.
• Ensure that team members are trained and follow work procedures and comply with quality requirements.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.
• Promote a team oriented environment based upon open two-way communication and inclusion of subject matter experts to resolve problems.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop recommendations for the continuous improvement of safety, product/process quality, productivity, manufacturing costs and schedule performance.
• Analyze production performance, identify capacity and other issues for improving the performance of the operation.
• Takes initiative to incorporate the appropriate short-term corrective actions where applicable, assists in understanding the root causes of more long-term issues and actively drives the implementation of the appropriate corrective action(s) to prevent future occurrence.
• Identify, provide and document the training requirements for his/her employees, securing the necessary resources and tools for developing employees’ skills to ensure competency in their assigned jobs.
• Interfaces daily with personnel from a variety of manufacturing support groups such as maintenance, warehouse, engineering, production planning, quality and purchasing, providing critical information and feedback regarding the necessary day-to-day business activities improvement opportunities.
• Interfaces and works with individuals at all organizational levels to achieve company, plant, area and departmental division objectives.
• Responsible for the timely and appropriate response to employee questions, improvement suggestions, and concerns.
• Provide timely and accurate Performance Evaluations to team members.
• Performs accident investigations, STOP observations, safety audits, and may be requested to perform explosives audits.
• Required to communicate essential daily departmental activities to supervisor responsible for the next shift, ensuring smooth operation of the area.
• Responsible for the accuracy of the inventory, working with the cycle counters to understand discrepancies, discover the root cause for the discrepancy, and take appropriate corrective action to prevent future occurrence.

Benefits

• highly competitive salary
• comprehensive benefits including: medical and dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401K, PTO, tuition reimbursement, gear discounts
• ability to add value to an exciting mission!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees