Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Ideal Tridon•Auburn Hills, MI

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Ideal Tridon Group is a global leader in clamps, strut, hose supports, conduit, fittings, and coupling solutions, with over 100 years of quality and a strong service culture. We are seeking a Production Supervisor for the 3rd Shift at our Wesanco ZSi plant in Auburn Hills, MI. The Shift Supervisor is responsible for directing all shift personnel, ensuring a safe work environment, and verifying successful completion of required training. This role is crucial for achieving performance targets in safety, quality, delivery, and productivity, with direct responsibility for materials handling, production planning and control, manufacturing, packaging, inventory control, shipping, and overseeing equipment and plant maintenance. The Supervisor must be a dynamic leader, fostering a culture aligned with the Company’s Core Values, and will be an active participant in the plant’s senior management team, contributing to strategic direction, the annual budget process, and operational goal definition.

Requirements

Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in manufacturing environment
Understanding of ERP systems, including bill of materials, work order management, inventory control
Strong computer skills
Proven track record of improving overall efficiencies, reducing cost, and leading teams to effect positive change within the organization.
Microsoft Office experience (Outlook-Word-Excel).
Proven management skills with the ability to optimize team performance.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
Comfortable with ambiguity and competing priorities.
Confident, self-starter, change agent.

Nice To Haves

A relevant business or engineering degree is preferred.
Knowledge of lean techniques may be advantageous.

Responsibilities

Supervise Packaging, Assembly, DC, and Component manufacturing team members who assemble, package, label, set up, and operate custom automated equipment, which is designed to assemble and package stainless/carbon steel worm gear clamps in high volumes.
Ensure that production schedules are met daily while maintaining safety, environmental, quality, and cost objectives.
Lead and direct employee functions such as selection, hiring, and development of employees, conducting performance reviews and creating development plans.
Manage training of personnel, including sponsor certifications and hands-on training. Serve as a mentor.
Ensure compliance with the Quality System and Environmental Management System.
Direct the work teams and supervise the shift’s production efforts to meet the published schedules.
Participate and assist in decisions concerning hiring, promotion, discipline, and discharge.
Maintain consistently safe work environment and personally demonstrates his/her commitment to safety and compliance.
Hold employees accountable for required safety, environmental, quality, and quantity standards and maintaining inspection ready workplace at all times.
Ensure team members receive sufficient training to accomplish their roles in a safe and productive manner.
Interpret MRP reports to plan, organize and schedule daily high-volume production requirements for clamp manufacturing and packaging requirements for the Smyrna facility.
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner.
Ensure efficient coordination and processing of high volume work orders and develop a collaborative and effective working relationship with all support functions.
Lead and/or participate in continuous improvement activities such as: implementing and sustaining lean manufacturing tools, and automated inspection requirements, etc.
Consistently lead continuous improvement teams/activities: to improve operating efficiencies, reduce costs, identify unfavorable trends concerning downtime, safety and quality issues.
Make timely corrections or plans activities with support functions to correct and improve upon such issues.
Ensure compliance to the Quality Management System and Environmental Management System.
Understand the process for containing nonconforming product and completing a RID.
Satisfactorily complete this job position’s Training Instruction Checklist.
When necessary may perform other typical duties.