Production Supervisor
Shift: T2 Monday to Saturday 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
T3 Sunday to Friday 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Summary:
Responsible for management, supervision and development of production associates to achieve the organization objectives such as safety, quality, delivery, cost, ROCK and strategic focuses. To have a complete working knowledge of the operation of all machines, tooling, procedures, and processes related to the section/ department. Understands and always apply company policies regarding customer service and associates. Develops and maintains a spirit of teamwork and empowerment among associates..
Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:
- Responsible to manage, lead and supervise a team to achieve the organizational objectives.
- Be the area owner and accountable for the area / department performance metrics/KPIs such as safety, quality, delivery, cost, ROCK (Remove, Organize, Clean, Keep), etc.
- Ensure company policies are clearly communicated with the production team. Ensure EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) and quality regulatory requirement compliance.
- Provide proper training to the associates and ensure they are certified to perform their job with the tools provided according to the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) / WI (Work Instruction).
- Conduct regular 1:1 and weekly communication meetings with associates to provide/receive updates, feedback, and discuss development and calibration of expectations.
- Ensure a safe working environment for associates with enforcement of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) compliance and LOTO (Lock Out Tag Out) application.
- Ensure that product is produced according to the print to meet the industry standards and customer expectations for quality.
- Proactively initiate quality improvements to ensure OD% and PPM meet the corporate target.
- Timely containment and investigation of quality issues (together with MQS/technician etc.) to minimize the cost impact and prevent escape to customer.
- Responsible for support and ensure OSS is scheduling the orders by due date and batching opportunity; confirm material availability to deliver orders on time to customers.
- Manage machine capacity and people capacity (this includes associate work schedules, OT, time off, vacations etc.) with alignment to order scheduling.
- Responsible for overall cost performance in your cost center. Manage and support overtime (OT) according to business requirements, drive scrap and productivity improvements to reduce cost.
- Communicate to Techs on priority and engage in troubleshooting defective tooling that may cause efficiency or quality concerns.
- Walk throught the process frequently to understand any quality concerns or bottlenecks and adress the team in a timely manner.
- Monitor and review metrics regularly; responsible for initiating and driving continuous improvement.
- Stop the production of all non-conforming products.
“The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities”.
Required experience:
- At least 5 years of experience as supervisor in manufacturing enviroment.
- Verifiable previous experience.
- Multitask and strong in data analysis and is data driven.
- Experience with Process knowledge for related areas.
- Excellent problem solving, investigation skills, and needs to be detail oriented.
- Strong people management and leadership skills.
- Strong understanding manufacturing concepts, experience in lean and six sigma is preferred.
- Must possess good communication skills – written & verbal (English and Spanish).
- Must be able to use Microsoft Office Software (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access)
- Team player and must be able to work with multiple groups of people (Operators, Floor Managers, Engineers, etc.).
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