Production Supervisor

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The Production Supervisor is responsible for directing operations and leading personnel within a rotating shift environment, while ensuring a strong understanding of customer needs to drive growth and success. This role oversees all shift activities to deliver exceptional performance in safety, employee engagement, cost control, productivity, efficiency, quality, and customer service. By fostering operational excellence, the Production Shift Leader plays a critical role in achieving plant objectives and delivering superior results.

Reports to
:

Operations Leader

Schedule
:12-hour Rotating Night Shift

Span of Control
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Approximately 30-35 employees

• Promote and enforce a culture of safety by ensuring compliance with all safety policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Conduct regular safety audits, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
• Lead safety huddles and awareness initiatives to reduce workplace hazards.
• Lead execution of monthly team safety requirements – including completion of behavior-based safety observations, near miss reporting, safe work permits, safety meetings, pre-shift safety inspections, departmental inspections, etc. and builds a culture where safety is the number one priority.
• Participates in the investigation of safety incidents and leads root cause analysis to drive for permanent resolution.

• Understand and communicate customer expectations throughout the Operations Department, and ensure all products meet customer standards and requirements.
• Ensure timely and accurate production to schedules in order to meet or exceed delivery to promise.
• Plan, coordinate, and supervise daily production activities to meet output, efficiency, and quality targets.
• Perform root cause analysis with the involvement of operators on all quality issues and resolve.
• Train operators on problem solving skills, and coach through resolution.
• Monitor production metrics and implement corrective actions to address variances.
• Collaborate with quality assurance to ensure products meet or exceed standards.

• Engages all teams to collaboratively own the success of the business by contributing to continuous improvement in the areas of safety, quality, cost, productivity, etc.
• Provides candid feedback on expectations and performance to members of the team on a regular basis and drives appropriate actions for further improvement.
• Identify skill gaps and coordinate ongoing training and cross-training opportunities.
• Support career development through coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback.
• Invests in the growth and development of team members and others to achieve sustained success.
• Implements and documents corrective action when performance issues occur.
• Partners with relevant stakeholders to ensure team members are well trained and up to date on certifications required to perform the full scope of the job.
• Effectively communicates critical plant performance metrics to team members on a daily basis to ensure engagement.

• Reaches mutually beneficial agreement with all operating departments on required capacity specifications. Capacity specifications are measured by Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or a similar metric that measures capacity related to quality, availability, and performance.
• Analyses and communicates output data to the Leader on a regular basis.
• Assesses situations and takes action to proactively mitigate potential problems.
• Ensures consistent product quality by guiding team members to analyze key process variables, maintain critical product and equipment information.
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