Production Superintendent

Lear Corporation•Detroit, MI

10d•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of the Operations team, the Production Superintendent will be responsible for providing leadership and direction to ensure that our production, quality, and efficiency goals are met. Drive high performance work teams by ensuring our team leaders as well as our teams are well trained and coached.

Requirements

3-5 years production/plant management experience in a manufacturing/union environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Demonstrate ability in maintaining positive employment relations
Maintain a high level of integrity
Excellent organizational and computer skills
Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

Improve Quality performance through decreased scrap and defects
Daily review and identification of quality, efficiency, and scrap issues.
Lead review with Coaches to develop solutions or preventative measures.
Coordinate with Quality department to investigate, identify and implement corrective actions with the production team.
Lead to continuously improve quality metrics and targets.
Drive efficiency
Work with Coaches and Team Leaders to drive efficiency by utilizing the production system and driving back issues to the team.
Ensure that operators are following SWI’s and lead team to continuously find SWI improvements.
Work with teams to improve station layouts, identify 8 waste opportunities, poke yokes, and implement 5s methodology into work areas.
Lead Coaches and Team Leaders to continuously improve production metrics and targets.
Drive Materials and Shipping Efficiency
Ensure that proper floats and Finished Goods Inventories are kept at the correct levels
Drive proper material flow by making sure that FIFO is used.
Drive high performance work team culture through training, support and empowerment
Train all team members on Lean/Kaizen principles to help support a CI Culture and enable teams to identify and address “just do it” opportunities and resolve workplace issues independently.
Drive teams to actively pursue Team Member roles and tasks outside of workstation assembly.
Support and lead team Kaizen activities.
Always manage and ensure effective cross-training levels to 100% job rotations within teams.
Lead and develop Team Leaders to ensure High Performance Work Teams are effectively led
Conduct or recommend continuous learning for Team Leaders.
Conduct training sessions for plant staff and production team.
Select and place Team Leaders within retention goals.
Develop Team Leaders to be recognized as currently promotable successors to Coach roles