Production Supervisor Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Two years of leadership experience
• Ability to express ideas effectively with well-developed interpersonal and communication skills and professionalism.
• Conflict resolution
• Ability to identify and understand issues and make appropriate decisions.
• Proficient in quality system fundamentals and continuous improvement activities.
• Effective written and verbal communication and office equipment usage.
• Critical competencies include: integrity, trust, customer orientation, job knowledge, decisiveness, relationship building, effective communication, systemic thinking, future focused, managing and developing talent, flexibility, innovation and business knowledge.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensure the team’s performance and accountability to zero defects.
• Identify and solve department problems that cause poor quality.
• Partner with customer service and quality teams to ensure the identification of quality issues and their root causes, as well as design and implement solutions.
• Manage and monitor compliance to quality plan.
• Follow up to ensure jobs are completed to requirements and satisfaction.
• Audit processes and procedures on a daily basis to ensure they are followed.
• Provide training, coaching, and accountability to employees when needed.
• Conducts annual performance reviews.
• Ensure 100% on time delivery of quality products to the customer.
• Responsible for accurate and timely receiving and shipping of material to external and internal customer facilities.
• Confer with supervisors of other departments to coordinate flow of materials or products.
• Monitor daily staffing resources and balances employee resources across the department based on daily production needs.
• Interact with Manufacturing, Material Planning, Purchasing, and Maintenance personnel in local and offsite facilities in support of production and capacity planning needs.
• Support Coordinator in interpreting job orders to workers, and assigns duties.
• Continuously improve the processes of operations by eliminating waste and creating processes that add value to the customer.
• Create an operation that produces product only to customer demand using one piece flow.
• Implement and ensure a safe working environment for all employees and visitors.
• Implements and commits to 5S principles.
• Ensure safety training and development is complete & administer safety policies & procedures.
• Manage and monitor the achievement of corporate and plant environmental goals.
• Ensure employees follow ODL safety procedures and have the proper licensing before operating equipment and machinery.
• Oversee housekeeping and maintenance in area of responsibility.
• Ensures that equipment and facilities are properly maintained.
• Motivate and involve employees in improving processes through creativity, problem solving and learning.
• Set expectations, teach, encourage, coach and hold team members accountable to utilize standardized work to improve operations.
• Implement improvements by day by day kaizen.
• Solicit team member ideas for improvement and create a work environment where employees are encouraged to take risks and share their ideas.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Provide timely feedback including performance evaluations, coaching and discipline.
• Responsible for employee selection (determine staffing levels and skills required) and training.
• Help team members develop new skills that allow them to increase their contribution to the operation.
• Approves and monitors overtime and vacation on a regular basis, ensuring the budget and internal and external customer requirements are met.
• Maintains time and production records.
• Improve capabilities by utilizing people’s skills to solve problems proactively and constantly move towards the ideal situation.
• Engage in kaizen activities every day to proactively go after problems with manufacturing focus.
• Establish or adjust work procedures to meet production schedules.
• Look for ways to eliminate waste, improve safety, improve quality, and improve the work environment for team members.
• Use all team members’ feedback to develop and implement improvements.
• Evaluates improvement proposals for work areas and coordinates with other resources when needed to evaluate possibilities.
• Use problem solving and continuous improvement tools to solve problems and improve processes.
• Responsible for spending 80% of time directly with your team members where place in an effort to understand the current status of the operation and gain direct input from employees in order to make improvements.
• Analyze and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Report department measures to employees and leadership on a daily basis.
• Leads daily departmental meetings and occasionally leads continuous improvement events or projects.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Vacation and 10 Holidays
• Health Club Reimbursement
• Bonus program
• Wellness program