Building Future Leaders - Production Supervisor

IKO • Lancaster, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Building Future Leaders Program (BFL) is an integral part of IKO’s succession planning strategy. This program seeks recent engineering graduates (or similar) to join the organization as Production Supervisors. The Production Supervisor role focuses on producing a high-quality product by leading employees to maintain a high level of awareness on safety, environmental, and process compliance. While fulfilling the role of Production Supervisor at one of our manufacturing locations, participants will simultaneously participate in the 24-month BFL Program. Through this program, incumbents will collaborate with fellow BFL members, gain exposure to all facets of the IKO business, meet with key executives and be assigned an executive mentor, tour several IKO manufacturing plants, participate in career mapping workshops, and engage in numerous professional development initiatives, including all 10 modules of IKO’s Supervisor Essentials Program. Upon completion of the 24-month program, incumbents will be eligible to move to other relevant roles within IKO.

Requirements

• Senior (Expected May 2027 Grad) or Recent Graduate (within 12 months) specializing in Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, or equivalent Engineering program.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• Proficient in MS Excel (advanced functionality), MS Word, MS Power Point & Adobe Acrobat.
• Critical thinking skills, and high degree of organization are a must.
• Must be able to stand and walk frequently.
• Must be comfortable working at heights occasionally.
• Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs unassisted.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Troubleshooting capability is a plus.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Must be able to travel freely to Canada for training and site visits.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in BFL offerings, courses, meetings and other activities.
• Lead a positive change effort to improve performance by motivating, recognizing and inspiring others to be effective and efficient in their activities.
• Maintain a high level of awareness on safety, environmental and process compliance.
• Champion hazard identification, evaluation and control through the behavior based safety and risk assessment programs.
• Lead and direct all production operations for the duration of your shift.
• Increase employee engagement and improve the labor relations climate through participation in continuous improvement (get suggestions, report problems, participate in team problem solving sessions).
• Drive accountability for both results and actions of direct reports through education, motivation, documentation and behavior-based coaching.
• Increase operator involvement in maintenance.
• Participate in Root cause analysis (5 why, fishbone, etc.) with team members, maintenance and engineering.
• Continually improve the operational efficiency of the plant.
• Work with and support other department goals.
• Ensure proper documentation and complete reports (compliance, checklists, production reports, spreadsheets, metrics, incident investigations, etc.).
• Facilitate effective meetings and team discussions.
• Effectively communicate with all levels both internal and external to the organization.
• Job training with STD work description, SOP and WI.
• Safety training, STOP. FLRA and all others safety programs.
• Resolve any conflict immediately and assure that behavior is in line with IKO values, ask for help if needed.
• Ensure a rigorous follow-up of all 5S.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (Dependent on State: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00)
• Competitive health and benefit plan
• Competitive matched retirement savings program
• The opportunity to join a continuously growing organization with focus on Diversity and Inclusion
• The opportunity to work with an industry leader in manufacturing
• Eligible to move to other relevant roles after program completion

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level