Production Supervisor

Ametek, Inc.

47d

About The Position

Responsible for assigned area aspects of the production floor, including personnel, machines, facility, equipment, and all necessary support systems for manufacturing processes.

Requirements

Strong leadership, interpersonal, and employee development skills.
Oral and written communication skills.
Knowledge of lean manufacturing and six sigma methodology/practices.
Problem solving skills.
Project management skills.
Attention to detail.
4 Year / Bachelors Degree preferred.
0-3 Production/manufacturing experience
3-6 Employee management/supervisory role

Responsibilities

Coordinates the flow of work through departments and ensures departments have sufficient levels of inventory to meet demand and are staffed appropriately.
Plan and direct production activities and establish production goals and priorities to effectively execute the production schedule, manage internal cost factors, meet quality requirements, and achieve timely service to customers.
Prepare production status reports: sales dollars, schedule hours, delivery performance, scrap calculations, etc.
Responsible for the direct management of the production floor, taking into account internal and external supplier relationships, production schedules, quality standards, continuous improvement, and cost standards.
Oversees and directs the activities of the production supervisors, cell leaders, and operators, on all shifts of production.
Reviews, provides guidance for changes, approves and executes the production schedule, ensuring the schedule is both achievable and well-executed.
Collaborate with purchasing, maintenance, engineering, scheduling, and quality control to ensure effective production performance, communicating as required to generate timely and adequate support.
Advise management of changes, risks and opportunities related to production resources, including manpower requirements.
Develops and effectively executes departmental goals, objectives, and projects.
Performs multiple daily walk-through reviews of all production areas, providing coaching and direction to staff as required to ensure high performance.
Leads the lean culture of the production floor, including Gemba, 5S, and kaizen practices, ensuring adequate training and expectations of the organization.
Sets, measures, and accomplishes departmental continuous improvement goals, including cost, quality, safety, schedule attainment, OEE, individual development and performance, housekeeping, and preventative maintenance programs.
Develops cell leaders and shift supervisors in counseling production workers on personnel problems and resolution of employee concerns.
Working in concert with site and divisional Human Resources, plans staffing levels required to meet production requirements; requisitions new and replacement personnel, approves new hires, and manages staff performance (including improvement plans and dismissals when appropriate).
Assists in development of all new training and development programs to assure employee and product quality.
Works in coordination with New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineers and other staff regarding product development and process improvements, ensuring the timely and quality execution of NPI requirements.