Supervisor, Production

T.D. Williamson • Tulsa, OK

69d

About The Position

At TDW we put people first - that means working everyday to ensure the pipelines that run through our communities are operating safely and reliably. What sets us apart is our expertise, experience and commitment. Each day we dedicate ourselves to treating each other, our customers and our community with care and respect. The position involves safely managing a Manufacturing Department, delivering products with no quality defects, respecting production committed dates, and setting a Continuous Improvement culture within the Department.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in supervising in a welding or mechanical manufacturing environment.
• Experience in lean manufacturing and continuous improvements (5S, Kaizen, SMED, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Have managed 25 - 30 direct employees.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite.
• Ability to endure prolonged periods of standing and work in various positions such as kneeling, crouching, bending, stooping, squatting or lying down.
• Ability to move efficiently around workstations and sometimes into tight spaces or high platforms.
• Ability to reach overhead or extend arms for welding tasks in challenging positions.
• Excellent vision (or corrected vision), including depth perception and color recognition.
• Ability to work in hot environments due to welding processes, sometimes wearing heavy protective gear.
• Awareness of surroundings and adherence to safety protocols, including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Can lift up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Creates all required conditions for the team to work safely and checks that all team members and visitors are respecting the HSE rules.
• Develops HSE training and communication (weekly HSE meetings, yellow cards, STOP cards, etc.).
• Ensures that all safety and housekeeping standards are adequate to achieve a safe work environment.
• Creates all required conditions to avoid any long-term incident (LTI), analyzes the root cause of any LTI and implements corrective action plans.
• Ensures that the manufactured products respect the customer specifications and interrupts the manufacturing of products with non-conformity.
• Checks that all products with non-conformity are under control and organizes corrective action plans.
• Ensures traceability requirements are met at all times (batch markings, welding parameters, test reports, etc.).
• Ensures necessary tools, documentation, and work instructions are provided to the operators in order to perform their work in a safe and efficient manner.
• Together with Planners, builds realistic production plans based on raw material deliveries and Order Delivery requirements (Confirmed Stock Date).
• Ensures manpower levels are sufficient to support production schedules.
• Anticipates all situations that can generate delay towards objectives, modifies the work order and decides to subcontract some operations.
• Checks that all equipment is available, plans the test equipment according to the order planning, requires and organizes technical modification of the equipment if necessary.
• Initiates, leads or ensures constructive contribution of his staff to all continuous improvement workshops.
• Ensures that production organization follows the 5S standards.
• Selects, evaluates, motivates and develops employees to ensure a qualified workforce necessary to meet company objectives.
• Empowers manpower flexibility in terms of competencies.
• Sets personal objectives, provides fair and constructive feedback, assesses accurately employee performance, training needs, areas for improvement and possibility of future growth within the organization.
• Develops a positive team dynamic to ensure high performance.
• Leads the continuous improvement process within the team.
• Reports to the Production Manager.
• Supervises, in collaboration with the leads, the machine, assembly, paint & weld shops.
• Works in collaboration with other departments (Engineering, Purchasing, Traffic, Warehouse, etc.) and the support functions (HSE & Human Resources).
• Is able to contact and work with TDW suppliers.
• Follows the HSE policy by applying the instructions and procedures of the HSE manual.
• Follows the directives of the Quality System (ISO 9001) by applying the instructions and procedures of the system.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Repair and Maintenance
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees