Production Supervisor

Requirements

• Coordinates the flow of work through departments and ensures departments have sufficient levels of inventory to meet demand and are staffed appropriately.
• Plan and direct production activities and establish production goals and priorities to effectively execute the production schedule, manage internal cost factors, meet quality requirements, and achieve timely service to customers.
• Responsible for the direct management of the production floor, taking into account internal and external supplier relationships, production schedules, quality standards, continuous improvement, and cost standards.
• Collaborate with purchasing, maintenance, engineering, scheduling, and quality control to ensure effective production performance, communicating as required to generate timely and adequate support.
• Develops and effectively executes departmental goals, objectives, and projects.
• Leads the lean culture of the production floor, including Gemba, 5S, and kaizen practices, ensuring adequate training and expectations of the organization.
• Sets, measures, and accomplishes departmental continuous improvement goals, including cost, quality, safety, schedule attainment, OEE, individual development and performance, housekeeping, and preventative maintenance programs.
• Develops cell leaders and shift supervisors in counseling production workers on personnel problems and resolution of employee concerns.
• Works in coordination with site and divisional Human Resources, plans staffing levels required to meet production requirements; requisitions new and replacement personnel, approves new hires, and manages staff performance (including improvement plans and dismissals when appropriate).
• Assists in development of all new training and development programs to assure employee and product quality.
• Works in coordination with New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineers and other staff regarding product development and process improvements, ensuring the timely and quality execution of NPI requirements.

Benefits

• Vacation time
• Health insurance