Production Supervisor

Supervisory duties:
Provides direction to union production staff including team leads.

• Heavy Manufacturing - fire grills, space heaters, assembly and metal fabrication

• At least 3 years of experience as a leader in a manufacturing environment
• Basic understand of sheet metal fabrication and assembly processes
• Takes ownership of assigned area and shows initiative to address performance shortcomings
• Self-starter with high sense of responsibility
• Creates positive energy among team and inspires team members through their own actions
• Comfortable and effective with both one-on-one coaching and team facilitation
• Ability to hold yourself, your staff and support teams accountable to internal and external KPIs
• Ability to effectively evaluate and teach team members to satisfactorily complete tasks required to meet customer requirements
• Ability to understand and resolve people and process related problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills among all levels in the organization
• Competent in Microsoft Office software (i.e. Excel, Word, Outlook)

• Consistently comply with all company and union contract policies and ensure all team members do the same
• Lead the production and support teams to meet performance goals for safety, quality, delivery, cost and visual management for assigned area
• Proactively understand and communicate process or parts needs
• Willing to work the hours needed to satisfy customer requirements and drive positive change
• Accurately update labor, time away approvals, Key Performance Indicators and Gemba board for assigned area
• Issue discipline to production employees and communicate issues with HR as needed
• Intermediate Responsibilities:
• Support New Product Development and Engineering Change Order efforts
• Effectively utilize and cross-train manpower for optimal results, including sharing with other areas when needed

• Facilitate Cell Management Team and hold team members accountable to agreed upon action items
• Facilitate Root Cause and Corrective Action efforts to solve safety, quality and production flow issues
• Develop solid understanding of the cause and effect of changes to your assigned production processes
• Drive continuous performance improvement to a future state vision by analyzing processes, collecting data, and working with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements