Value Stream Supervisor - 3rd Shift Cottage Grove, Minnesota Operations

# Value Stream Supervisor - 3rd Shift
* Full Time
* Operations Renewal by Andersen is looking for a Value Stream Supervisor for our manufacturing facility in Cottage Grove!

Apply Now## Job Details```Maintain high level of visibility with associates.  Use hands-on approach to communicate daily and involve associates in problem solving.
• Promote safety and ensure a safe work environment and safe associate work habits.
• Develop a high performance work team with high levels of associate engagement morale, satisfaction, and performance.
• Create and maintain a respectful work environment by listening, seeking facts to support decisions, managing one’s own reactions, and addressing unacceptable behavior.
• Help associates succeed through performance management.  Provide coaching and performance communication to support development.
• Ensure the desired product quality levels are achieved through use of standard work and training to those standards, training in operation and inspection techniques, and use of tools/data.
• Support and implement new, customer-focused processes in accordance with lean principles and practices.  Provide training and coaching to improve standard work, work center organization (5S), and housekeeping.  Actively provide change leadership as required.
• Support and foster an environment of continuous improvement by encouraging associates to challenge existing processes and implement solutions that enhance the overall effectiveness of the operation.
• Support associates in understanding company policies and practices.
• Take notice of process related problems and support associates in taking corrective action to improve the overall performance of the team.
• Communicate with and listen to associates on a daily basis regarding work center/team performance, strategic initiatives, policy changes, safety, quality, etc.
• Communicate with other supervisors and appropriate personnel regarding equipment, safety, work center schedules, company policies and practices, performance improvement plans, etc.

Qualifications
• 4 year degree or equivalent
• 2 – 4 years of supervisory or work center lead experience
• Previous experience in a logistics operation with demonstrated ability to acquire and apply continuous improvement, lean, and manufacturing system principles a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and motivate people.

Business acumen and knowledge:
• Basic business knowledge about how a business runs and makes decisions.

Communication:
• Listening skills
• Effective communicating 1:1 and in groups
• Presentation skills

Leadership:
• Results Orientation
• Able to motivate associates
• Bias for action
• Displays energy for the business
• Supports and communicates difficult decisions
• Collaborates with associates at all levels
• Effectively supports change
• Developing skills in coaching production associates
• Able to maintain a respectful and safe work environment
• Able to support a continuous improvement culture
• Works effectively with warehouse, shop and/or deliver associates
• Demonstrates strong problems solving skills CULTURE AND BENEFITS:

Our vision is to make the world a better place by living up to the promise that everyone benefits from their association with Andersen.  We’re committed to making a difference through challenging ourselves each day, recognizing and rewarding success, taking pride in our work and honoring a legacy built on doing the right thing. There is great respect for life outside work so that you can bring your best self to work.

As an innovative and industry-leading organization, we think of benefits more broadly. From your health care to your work environment, to your development and quality of life, we think beyond basic benefits to provide a total rewards package…