Supervisor, Operations

Levi Strauss & Co.•Henderson, NV

15d•Onsite

About The Position

This role supervises non-exempt employees to achieve daily performance requirements, administers policy and procedure within legal guidelines, and coaches the work group to adapt to new ways of performing work. This includes understanding the legal ramifications of policies, government regulations, and safety standards, and consistently adhering to and administering policy and procedures. The role also involves managing costs by tracking against ABP, providing input into projected plans, conducting cost analysis, and evaluating safety costs against production goals. Effective decision-making using cost factors and identifying gaps is crucial. The position manages production workflow by utilizing multi-warehouse systems to predict and direct workflow, following computer control commands to redirect workflow within warehouse systems, and understanding how all parts are impacted by decisions to redirect workflow. Additionally, the role facilitates the setting of objectives and strategies, daily tactical planning, budgeting, and workforce requirements. It develops performance measures for work groups and clarifies inputs and outputs for continuous improvement, and schedules daily activities to maximize available resources.

Requirements

Excellent verbal, written, and listening communication skills.
Clear expression of ideas in writing and in good grammatical form.
Ability to actively listen and provide feedback to others.
Ability to resolve conflicts/disagreements in such a way to promote a win-win situation with the parties involved.
Possesses a genuine intent to foster the learning and development of work group members while promoting the creation of a high-performance team.
Able to lead work group toward an objective or goal while encouraging and empowering the work group to make decisions regarding flow of work through specified area.
Understands one’s influence on the work group and provides direction to work group to ensure requirements are consistently met for the work area/facility.
Motivates work group towards goal achievement by ensuring that work group understands how their work fits into the entire production flow of the facility and by providing continuous feedback.
Demonstrates an understanding of the order fulfillment process, facility policies and procedures.
Intermediate PC skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Outlook.
Demonstrate the ability to learn and understand warehouse systems such as SAP, WCS, Red Prairie, TranMan, Laser Print, etc.
Develops a positive working environment promoting open and honest communications and trust among work group members.
Understands in order to provide continuous feedback to work group members, specific behaviors must be described in detail.
Listen with the intent to understand the situation, shows empathy, and can express feelings in a very professional manner without offending work group members.
Ensures production standards and policies are adhered to, and counsels work group members accordingly should deviations exist.
Partners with union leadership to work through employee issues.
Ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces, organizing parts of problem in a systematic way, making systematic comparisons of different aspects or features, setting priorities on a rational basis, identifying time sequences, and causal relationships or other relationships, in order to generate solutions.
Trains and leads work group in problem solving activities.
Ability to adapt to and work in a variety of situations to support the organizational goals.
Appreciates new and different perspectives and has the willingness to align one’s own behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of LS&CO.
Ability to effectively forecast future production/operational demands and to ensure a plan of action is developed to support the attainment of organizational goals.
Involves assessing capabilities, identifying resources, setting and prioritizing objectives, and determining critical paths.
Ensures resources are available for work group to produce on-time, quality work.
Two or three years of supervision experience with a willingness to continue education, or B.A./B.S. level of education, or other related equivalent work experience with demonstrated leadership skills.

Responsibilities

Supervises non-exempt employees on achieving daily performance requirements.
Administers policy and procedure within legal guidelines.
Coaches work group to adapt to new ways of performing work to include understanding of legal ramifications of our policies, government regulations, safety standards, and consistently adhering to and administering policy and procedures.
Manage costs by tracking costs against ABP.
Provide input into projected plans.
Conduct cost analysis.
Evaluate safety costs against production goals.
Use cost factors to effectively make sound decisions as well as identifying gaps.
Manage production workflow.
Utilize multi-warehouse systems to predict and direct workflow.
Follow computer control commands to redirect workflow within warehouse systems.
Understand how all parts are impacted by decisions to redirect workflow.
Facilitates the setting of objectives and strategies along with daily tactical planning, budgeting and workforce requirements.
Develops performance measures for work groups and clarifies inputs and outputs that will be monitored for continuous improvements.
Schedules work for the daily activities of the work groups to maximize available resources.