Shift Supervisor - Extrusion

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Purpose / Job Summary

The Extrusion Shift Supervisor has responsibility for coordinating the operation of the Extrusion Area to produce a quality product, in a safe manner, and meet customer ship dates.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Hourly Extrusion personnel report to the Extrusion Shift Supervisor.

Responsibilities

Responsible for safe operation of the Extrusion Area

• Conduct weekly safety audits
• Conduct monthly safety meetings
• Monitor operations at all times for compliance with all Safety Rules and Safe practices
• Insure operators are filling out Machine and Powered Equipment Check sheets.

2. Responsible for shift productivity

• Effectively utilize shift personnel to meet the productivity, quality, yield, and cost goals of the area.
• Work with shift maintenance personnel to get equipment fixed if breakdowns occur. Call in maintenance as needed to keep critical machinery operational. Write up non-critical needs for day maintenance to fix.
• Coordinate activities with Finishing Supervisor to insure dues and priorities are being run.
• Maintain production records and reports.

3. Maintain quality standards

• Audit machine operations and outgoing production for quality.
• Provide follow up to Finishing Supervisor on the quality of incoming mill rolls.
• Verify operators are filling out all Quality Check sheets, as required.
• Verify standard work compliance through employee observation and process audits
• Coordinate with Finishing and Quality Departments to determine root cause and corrective action on all internal and external Extrusion quality issues
• Communicate quality issues along with root cause and corrective action findings to the shift.
• Initiate deviation requests and ensure strict adherence to the Deviation process.

4. Communication

• Write Shift Log to communicate information to other shifts.
• Apprise employees on the shift of production, quality, or safety concerns
• Inform Area Production Manager of Safety, Quality, Production, or personnel issues.
• Inform Medical of disabilities and any other medical issues.
• Inform Human Resources of personnel issues.
• Review and approve or deny employee vacation request based on department staffing agreement
• Ensure crewing levels match staffing agreement based on the number of extrusion lines in operation.
• Conduct employee coaching sessions and drive improvement.
• Record employee time records and send appropriate paperwork to Payroll

5. Coordination with Business Process

• Understand all Extrusion critical control points as defined by the Business Process team and communicate why they are critical to successes in the Extrusion Department
• Schedule and lead manufacturing investigations on major process failures
• Communicate any operator concerns or improvement opportunities to processes or standard work along with potential solutions to the Business Process team.
• Establish and maintain an environment built on procedural discipline while always encouraging the team to find a better way.

6. Responsible for site operations (in conjunction with the Finishing Supervisor) at night and on weekends

• Overall operation of the site
• Staffing
• Maintenance demands
• Medical problems including incident and injury responsibilities
• Disaster and emergency responsibilities.

7. The Shift Supervisor is responsible for the safe operation of the area in producing a product that meets or exceeds the customer specifications in a time frame that meets the customers expected ship date. The Shift Supervisor must manage a crew to meet these expectations. The Shift Supervisor is responsible for the safety, quality, training, morale, and productivity of the shift.

The Extrusion Shift Supervisor and the Finishing Shift Supervisor are responsible for all activities on the site at night and on the weekend.

Requirements

• Strong organizational and planning skills to coordinate multiple demands on stock, machinery, and manpower
• Demonstrated ability to adjust to changing conditions quickly and efficiently.
• Demonstrated ability to set, meet, and handle deadlines.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and ability to use computer to generate and store documents and records
• Ability to work with people, evaluate performance, and giving meaningful feedback
• Understanding of area machine capabilities
• Recognition of quality standards and customer specifications
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well with all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• A college degree and/or equivalent experience is preferred
• Work experience in manufacturing. Specific extrusion experience preferred.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb stairs and sit. The employee must be able to spend extended periods of time on the…