Supervisor, Production

Dover Food Retail•Chester, VA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisor, Production provides leadership to team leads and a team of hourly production employees, ensuring the team meets production targets safely, on time, and to established quality standards. This role involves providing leadership to team leaders and front-line hourly production team members; ensuring a safe work environment, defining expectations, providing resources, coaching/teaching/train associates, ensuring accountability, and providing feedback. The position also involves developing, implementing, and auditing daily standard work, driving a culture of continuous improvement, conducting root cause analysis and developing/implementing corrective action plans, maintaining the production schedule to meet quality and productivity requirements, and maintaining good inventory control procedures for raw materials. The Supervisor will partner with supply chain, quality, shipping, and other departments to ensure production targets are met safely, on time, and to established quality standards, and ensure timely response to operational issues impacting customer expectations and project cycle time performance. This role requires knowledge of company policies and the ability to engage appropriate resources (HR, Safety, etc.) when needed. The Supervisor will support, communicate, implement, sustain, and consistently enforce all company policies/procedures, and build and sustain good morale and attitudes among reporting associates. Additionally, the role includes initiating requisitions for open positions, interviewing and determining the best candidate for a position, and documenting associate skills and knowledge to create a skills matrix of employee training needs and accomplishments. The ability to capture/analyze data regarding productivity, understand through observations the causes for high and low productivity, understand production requirements and direct resources appropriately to procure shipment items, and communicate decisions with data and documentation are essential. Maintaining accurate timekeeping in ADP for all assigned direct reports and enforcing safety rules, practices, and procedures to assure the safety of associates, buildings, grounds, and machinery are also key responsibilities. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Minimum 3 years’ experience in a leadership position (team lead, team captain, supervisor, shift lead, etc.)
Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

Two years’ experience with 5S, Lean/Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies
Proficient with MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Able to interact and work effectively with employees at levels of the organization.
Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Must be willing to work extended and/or weekend hours when required.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership to team leaders and front-line hourly production team members; ensure a safe work environment, define expectations, provide resources, coach/teach/train associates, ensure accountability, and provide feedback.
Develop, implement, and audit daily standard work.
Drive a culture of continuous improvement; conduct root cause analysis and develop/implement corrective action plans.
Maintain production schedule, meeting both quality and productivity requirements.
Maintain good inventory control procedures for all raw material that may be required in assignment department(s).
Partner with supply chain, quality, shipping, and other departments to ensure the team meets production targets safely, on time, and to established quality standards.
Ensure timely response to operational issues impacting customer expectations and project cycle time performance.
Be knowledgeable of company policies and engage appropriate resources (HR, Safety, etc.) when required to handle issues that arise.
Support, communicate, implement, sustain, and consistently enforce all company policies/procedures
Build and sustain good morale and attitudes among all reporting associates.
Initiate requisitions for open positions.
Interview and determine best candidate for position
Document associate skills and knowledge to create a skills matrix of employee training needs and accomplishments
Ability to capture/analyze data regarding productivity -Understand through observations the causes for high and low productivity.
Understand production requirements and direct resources appropriately to procure shipment items.
Communicate decisions with data and documentation.
Maintain accurate timekeeping in ADP for all assigned direct reports.
Enforce safety rules, practices and procedures to assure safety of associates, buildings, grounds and machinery.
Other duties as assigned.