Production Supervisor; Weekend

Preco is now hiring a Full-Time Production Supervisor (Weekend Days) for their Metals Department in Somerset, WI.

The Production Supervisor would have all production personnel on that shift as direct reports. The team will be focused on the Metals Market. The Supervisor is responsible for training and motivating employees. The team must meet quality, production, and efficiency goals. The Production Supervisor is to be a point of contact for anyone on shift for questions or directions. The Supervisor is responsible for communication with other groups and shifts.

Preco is a leading designer and manufacturer of precision automated processing systems for high-speed and high-accuracy cutting, perforating, welding, and other specialized industrial processing applications. With our proprietary die cutting and laser-based manufacturing capabilities, Preco has also become one of the largest contract manufacturing service (CMS) providers in North America.

• Ensure all personnel are aware of and follow Preco safety protocols.
• Follow and meet the manufacturing schedule as defined by Scheduler. Adjust personnel to maintain schedule priorities.
• Strive to manufacture all products to meet specifications. Troubleshoot and resolve quality issues. Stop production if a solution cannot be found.
• Support data accuracy and input for production analytics. Use data to analyze productivity to manage production and personnel. Make recommendations to management as appropriate.
• Identify process and procedure problems that negatively affect quality and efficiency. Work with team, other shifts, Engineering, and Quality to resolve problems and continuously improve process.
• Communicate issues and solutions across all shifts. This ensures solutions are leveraged and problems are not repeated.
• Ensure team has resources, tools, and materials to keep machines running efficiently, and without quality defects.
• Identify training needs for personnel on shift and schedule training.
• Develop/implement growth and development plans for personnel. This includes daily feedback and annual reviews.
• Verify that orders are complete, documentation is complete and accurate, parts are packed and labeled, properly report time and quantity correctly and ready to be shipped (all paperwork is filled out complete and correctly).
• Assure production team is performing line clean out and work cell clean up prior to next job or shift.
• Responsible for meeting all SQF (Safe Quality Foods), quality and customer requirements for this position.
• Responsible for facility lock up and shutdown of unused laser systems.
• Other tasks assigned by supervisor.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a supervisory role utilizing automated production equipment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

• Associate Degree or course work in Management, Business, or Leadership.
• Working knowledge of quality management system (QMS), international organization for standardization (ISO), and SQF.
• Exposure to or completion of formal business courses beyond the high school level.