2nd Shift Production Supervisor

2nd Shift Production Supervisor

Western Container Corporation of Beloit, WI

Reports to:

Plant Manager

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

Date Approved:
December 2023

The Production Supervisor is responsible for helping to create a safe work environment through maintaining equipment and facilities. The Supervisor focuses on streamlining processes and ensuring standards are met. The role assists the 1st Shift Production Supervisor overseeing and planning company production operations, ensuring all manufacturing runs smoothly and efficiently.

• Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
• Assist and act as a backup to the Material Handler and Machine Operators.
• Establish a new hire training program and perform the training from beginning to end of the established training time. Act as the primary trainer for new hires and current employees.
• Assist in coordinating the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, or fabricators.
• Serves as a line operator to fill vacancies.
• Monitor line efficiency and quality checks in accordance with company standards.
• Monitor line operations to ensure that operators are correctly entered in the production job. Monitor GUI system and train when needed.
• Confer with the 1st Shift Production Supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
• Working with the 1st Shift Production Supervisor assists with work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
• Maintain operations data, such as time, production, and cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.
• Assist in maintaining company standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
• Confer with management to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
• Set up and adjust machines and equipment.
• Lead employees in accordance with company rules and regulations.
• Provide leadership and direction to production employees by actively working with and effectively communicating to ensure quality product.
• Maintain production requirements while minimizing scrap levels.
• Working with the 1st Shift Production Manager initiates process improvements through employee involvement and supports all plant continuous improvement efforts as assigned.
• Ensure that all products are manufactured in accordance with customer specifications and approved processes.
• Support root cause analysis and proper resolution to conflict.
• Lead by example with an emphasis on positive communication and contributions.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Global Shop Software.

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Associate degree in mechanical, electrical or industrial maintenance preferred.
• Three years of related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Ability to stand greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to walk greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to sit less than 1/3 of the time.
• Ability to use hands greater than 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to climb or balance 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
• Ability to talk and hear greater than 2/3…