Production Supervisor Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Degree in a technical field preferred.
• Five or more years of experience in the automotive industry or similar position required.
• Experience with problem solving tools (8Ds, Fishbone diagram, 5-Why, cause and effect data.
• Ability to conduct meetings and perform as a facilitator using English required.
• Communication/negotiation/meeting facilitation.
• Fluent in business English, IT literate.
• Occasionally sit.
• Continuously stand and walk.
• Occasionally bend/stoop, squat, twist, push/pull, kneel and crouch.
• Occasionally reach above shoulder level.
• Occasionally carry/lift up to fifty (50) pounds, as in a case of paper or a file box.
• Continuously use his/her hands/fingers for the repetitive actions of simple and firm manipulation/grasping, as in operating a computer keyboard or touch tone telephone.
• Occasionally use his/her head and neck in flexing and rotating.
• Continuously be around manufacturing working conditions.
• Continuously be in a climate (heated/air-conditioned) controlled environment.
• Continuously be around moving machinery.
• Work in an ESD controlled Environment

Nice To Haves

• Additional training in supervision, coaching, employee motivation.
• Additional certifications (Allen Bradley PLC programming/troubleshooting).

Responsibilities

• Manages competencies in his/her team by developing skills through training.
• Ensuring all appropriate documentation for training is signed and understood by the responsible associates.
• Provides job assignments throughout the day.
• Evaluates the working relationship of his/her team.
• Maintains knowledge on all workstations and understands their sequence of operation.
• Escalates to quality, engineering, safety, maintenance, and upper management if needed.
• Responsible for coaching troubleshooting with team leader and associates prior to escalating an issue.
• Responsible for shift pass down with prior and following shift supervisors.
• Responsible for auditing all first part validations and that each is completed, and all are conforming to specifications.
• Responsible for auditing the cleanliness of each station.
• Responsible of auditing near misses and/or accident action closure.
• Leads and participates in daily production status meetings.
• Uses problem solving tools to prevent or solve problems – participates in problem solving meetings where the team is involved.
• Ensures adherence to production plan, able to reorganize and prioritize as needed.
• Ensure that all products are produced in compliance with latest customer requirements and quality expectations.
• Ensures quantity and quality of work performed by team members.
• Ensuring correctness of the daily data including scrap reported by Team Leads
• Maintains the productivity of the equipment under his/her supervisor and the correct inventory level of in-process materials.
• Responsible for sending End of Shift report with the status of their shift to the production plan.
• Participates in continuous improvement workshops.
• Maintains trends of results from continuous improvement actions.
• Assists quality representative in conducting scrap meetings.
• Ensures that all employees are trained and compliant in the safe operation of equipment and plant-specific safety (ESD & PPE) and environmental concerns.
• In coordination with department managers, conducts monthly shift meetings with employees to cover various topics to include safety, quality, etc.
• Reports near misses and any accident (minor or emergent) written and orally when it occurs.
• Reports, addresses, and documents counseling pertaining to employee-related concerns, e.g. attendance, performance, etc. and communicates to department management and human resources as required.
• Welcomes new hires and new to shift.
• Requests additional team members with department management when required.
• Provides performance feedback with team members.
• Encourages and motivates employees in work performance, open/constructive communications, problem solving and communicates any employee improvement ideas.
• Daily documentation in the HRIS (human resource information system) for timecards, approval of PTO, and employee tracking of hours to minimize unnecessary overtime and absenteeism.
• Maintains production planning (PDP) file and scheduling of employees.
• Maintains main production and quality KPI
• Adhere to and implement everything in his/her power to achieve the Quality, Safety, and Environmental objectives and reduce the environmental impacts related to the activity of Electricfil Automotive.
• Analyze functional quality test data and propose potential failure modes to team.
• Methodical, capable of analyzing quality problems and providing a concise written summary to management.
• Responsible to ensure the quality of the product is meeting the expected level.