Production Specialist - Lonoke II - 4A shift

The Kinetic Group • Lonoke, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Specialist role is responsible for ensuring efficient application of people and resources to meet delivery, quality, and safety standards. This involves identifying and deploying technical skill sets, managing resources, and ensuring team members are trained and compliant with procedures and quality requirements. The specialist will perform root cause analysis, resolve problems, and promote a team-oriented environment. A key aspect of the role is to identify, evaluate, and recommend continuous improvements for safety, product/process quality, productivity, manufacturing costs, and schedule performance. The position requires analyzing production performance, addressing capacity issues, and driving corrective actions. It also involves identifying and documenting training needs for employees, interfacing daily with various manufacturing support groups (maintenance, warehouse, engineering, production planning, quality, purchasing), and working with individuals at all organizational levels to achieve company objectives. The specialist is responsible for responding to employee questions and concerns, providing performance evaluations, conducting accident investigations, STOP observations, and safety/explosives audits. Daily communication of departmental activities to the next shift supervisor is essential for smooth operations. The role also includes responsibility for inventory accuracy, working with cycle counters to understand discrepancies, and implementing corrective actions. The company is an equal opportunity employer and adheres to ITAR and Gun Control Act requirements.

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
• the ability to add value to an exciting mission!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed