Production Supervisor

Cooper-Standard Automotive•Livonia, MI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Position Summary: Ensure the achievement of the unit's safety, production, quality, and continuous improvement goals through adequate planning, organization, coordination and control of its human and technical resources and materials.

Requirements

Four-year degree or two-year degree in pursuit of a four-year degree
Minimum of 3 years’ supervision experience
Ability to identify and resolve day-to-day technical and operational problems.
Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
Computer competency, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.

Responsibilities

Create a work environment in which employees are respected, welcome, safe, and empowered.
Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
Communicate work rules and standards of conduct.
Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
Participate in or lead safety-related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
Ensure that HSE, legal, and management system requirements for work areas are met.
May, on occasion, be to perform duties other than those specified in this description.