3rd shift Supervisor, Machining

Astemo Indiana•Rock Spring, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisor, Machining oversees manufacturing efforts to produce quality products for automotive and powersport vehicles at Astemo Rock Spring, Inc. The role leads a team of approximately 28–35 direct reports and is responsible for meeting production targets, maintaining product quality, supporting safe operations, and ensuring delivery requirements are met. The supervisor coordinates staffing, trains line leaders, communicates production and quality issues to management, and completes accurate shift reporting and production tracking. The position promotes a safety-first culture, maintains safe and clean work areas, addresses unsafe conditions, and ensures associates follow applicable OSHA requirements and work instructions. It leads the team in meeting customer and company quality specifications, encourages the STOP, CALL, WAIT approach, and responds promptly to quality issues. The role also supports production through breaks and lunches when shipment needs require it, helps resolve workflow and equipment issues, and investigates customer issues using 5 WHY reports. The supervisor is expected to support company goals related to OSHA safety compliance, ISO 14001 environmental compliance, ethical and legal compliance, customer quality, production to plan, and delivery performance. The posting identifies key performance metrics as zero safety incidents, zero customer quality defects, zero late deliveries, and perfect attendance.

Requirements

Previous experience in a related field is preferred.
Good problem-solving abilities.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build friendly work relationships.
Familiarity with manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedures.
Ability to develop solutions to problems.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including regularly standing and handling or feeling objects, tools, or controls; occasional walking, reaching, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, talking, or hearing; regular lifting up to 20 pounds and occasional lifting up to 40 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in a related field.

Responsibilities

Oversee manufacturing efforts to produce quality products for automotive or powersport vehicles.
Promote a safety-first mindset and safe work environment; maintain clean and safe work areas and correct unsafe conditions immediately.
Ensure daily counts are complete and accurate for machine work in process, finished goods, and components.
Review prior-shift downtime and production issues.
Update and report BPS Board information hourly and accurately, including parts produced, downtime minutes, and quality losses.
Work overtime as needed to supply customer parts.
Assign manpower according to customer needs and schedule weekend overtime through Paycom when needed.
Train new line leaders to the standard described in their job descriptions.
Ensure daily production targets are met and report missed targets and their causes.
Engage in daily line issues and communicate effectively with all levels of management.
Coach and counsel line leaders and associates promptly when required.
Gather information and complete 5 WHY reports when customer issues arise, including presenting findings to management.
Lead the team to ensure in-process and final products meet customer and Astemo Rock Spring quality specifications.
Ensure work instructions and point cards are followed, and communicate quality issues promptly.
Promote the STOP, CALL, WAIT mentality among line leaders and associates.
Complete planned production quantities and collect and accurately complete shift paperwork for assigned lines.
Help run lines through breaks and lunches as needed to meet shipment needs.
Report assembly-related issues, safety incidents or near misses, equipment issues, quality concerns, and workflow interruptions.
Communicate unresolved issues to the supervisor immediately, follow work instructions, promote teamwork, prevent workflow interruptions, and suggest improvements to productivity, quality, and safety.
Work as part of line rotation when needed.
Complete shift and production-tracking paperwork and BPS Boards accurately and as required.