Production Supervisor | Mon -Thursday 7pm -7am

Marmon Holdings, Inc.•Seymour, CT

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor is responsible for employee safety, quality, and supervising production in a high pace environment. Ensures compliance with daily planning, manufacturing and shipment schedules, while maintaining standards of quality, specifications, costs, productivity and safety. Provides employee training and maintains compliance with established rules, regulations, and practices.

Requirements

Equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years minimum within a manufacturing environment, in a supervisory capacity.
Strong mechanical and process aptitude and working knowledge of wire/cable machinery.
Candidate must have strong conceptual and analytical skills, organization and problem-solving ability, verbal and written communications skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
Must be a team player and a developer of teamwork within areas supervised.

Nice To Haves

Direct wire and cable experience preferred.
2 - 4 year degree in engineering of manufacturing technology preferred, but will consider equivalent proven work experience.
Lean Sigma training
Maintenance Knowledge
Microsoft Office Knowledge

Responsibilities

Identify unsafe conditions and eliminate safety hazards.
Ensure all members are trained and working in a safe manner.
Continuously monitor for unsafe acts, maintenance concerns, slip/trip/fall concerns.
Regularly coach, encourage and monitor employees for compliance with safety rules and practices.
Develop and track new operator training for a successful career in Marmon Utility.
Train and cross-train operators as required to perform to the schedule as outlined by Planning.
Measure operator efficiency and communicate progress/challenges utilizing coaching and training.
Track attendance and recognize quality performance; coach each employee for success.
Confer with appropriate Human Resources Representative on matters pertaining to employee/labor relations, benefits, etc.
Responsible for the following of each workstation schedules, communicate with planning for schedule improvement, change or challenges.
Responsible for maintaining levels of production including safety, line speeds, product quality and work order quantities.
Understand and communicate with KPIs in the operation floor to promote productivity targets.
Eliminate downtime through efficient set-ups, material availability, and staging.
Reduce downtime due to maintenance, i.e., schedule preventive maintenance.
Ensure Quality Standards are being met throughout the entire production process and support no defects from leaving a team area.
Implement and Sustain Quality Control Measures.
Assure that scrap is being reported by work center.
Implement corrective action to reduce scrap by understanding all components that contribute to it.
Collaborate with operators to correct problems.
Coordinate with engineers, maintenance personnel to correct equipment, process problems.
Promote and support Marmon Utility Lean program by engaging operators in lean activities, training and suggestions.
Develop methods to increase the efficiency of staging materials to be run at a work center - eliminate the time for searching for reels and/or materials.
Develop and implement visual standards for 5S.
Work with leads and team on adherence.
Monitor daily team accountability to the visual standards and Good to Go.
Lead team in conducting periodic 5s audits.
Implement Corrective Actions for KPI misses.
Prioritize production resources and activities to ensure the timely completion of production schedule.
Organize each work center to achieve maximum efficiency.
Provide the required tools and other resources to achieve work center goals.
Maintain good housekeeping disciplines.
Reduce material handling of materials between departments and within departments.