Production Supervisor

Ontic•Creedmoor, NC

6d•$0 - $114,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor will perform the daily operations of work cells to ensure reliability and consistency on the production line while leading a team of 10-20 hourly team members. Impacts departmental operations and responsible for execution. The role has some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities within an operating discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Some judgment may be required but this is typically with guidance and collaboration.

Requirements

3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment managing a team
Candidate must be a U.S. Person
Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

Responsibilities

Oversight and management of front-line manufacturing employees.
Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline.
Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work.
In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance.
Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks.
Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems.
May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
Provides informal guidance to new team members
Develop and maintain personnel skill sets to support company growth
Assure policies and Good business practices are adhered to by those reporting to him/her.
Reduce and maintain production backlog to acceptable level to meet established on-time shipments target.
Improve and maintain job tracking and reporting to achieve 98% accuracy.
Maintain personnel skill set evaluation and development
Align the people on the floor so that they feel and act like a team.
Assure there are strong communications in place to make sure they have the current business info they need and, more importantly, we know and hear the real tone of how they feel and what issues they have.
Build relations so production personnel are engaged and committed to the business’s success as demonstrated by the idea flow from them for continuous improvement (which we then have to act on)
Generate and support active participations in process improvement (including CI, Kaizen, Employee Involvement, charts, etc)
Monitor, maintain, and improve KPI’s for the assigned production cells in accordance with established operational goals.