Supv, Production Exempt

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Full Time Bal Seal Engineering Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, US

Salary Range: $76,000.00 To $87,000.00 Annually

Reports to:
Production Manager

Department:
Automation Department

This position exists to oversee productivity and quality expectations and to ensure production schedules are met. This is a second shift position.

Bal Seal Engineering delivers advanced sealing, connecting, and contact solutions that serve medical, aerospace, energy, and industrial markets. Our proprietary spring-energized seals and electrical contacts help customers achieve precision, efficiency, and reliability. Employees thrive in a culture that values craftsmanship, technical mastery, and close partnership with customers solving complex challenges.

• Lead a team of ~14 automated equipment operators on 2nd shift
• Follows established procedures and approved supervisory processes
• Review production schedules, engineering specifications, orders, and related information, which will dictate the manufacturing methods, procedures, and activities to be employed
• Ensure that operators are working safely, as well as meeting production, quality, and cost targets
• Administer and execute policies, procedures, and practices that affect supervised employees
• Relentlessly drive improvement of the operations under their purview using Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement strategies, as well as by partnering with Engineering
• Schedule production for high-quality, on-time/in-full delivery to the customer.
• Play an integral role in creating a department that balances individual accountability with a fun, achievement-oriented, collegial environment
• Perform other duties as assigned

• High School Diploma or equivalent (Associate’s degree or higher desirable)
• Lean or Six Sigma Yellow Belt (or equivalent) required;
  Green Belt preferred

• Minimum of three (3) years of progressive and relevant supervision experience in a related field such as manufacturing, medical devices, industrial, aerospace, or automotive
• Minimum of five (5) years of manufacturing process experience
• Strong leadership experience in diverse manufacturing environments
• Experience with complex scheduling

• Good leadership, team-building, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to determine the scheduling and line placement of various assembly work orders using available business information
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints and tool designs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to solve problems at their root, independently or as part of a team
• Understanding of continuous improvement practices, and able to lead others to complete improvement projects
• Ability to delegate duties as needed

• Employees are occasionally required to stand.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk.
• This position is mainly sedentary;
  Therefore, required to sit.
• Employee regularly required to talk to others and to hear their responses.
• Occasionally will need to bend, stoop and squat.
• Frequent lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or moving up to 25 pounds.
• Required to reach with hands and arms to handle documents and products.
• Must be able to enter data into a computer by use of a keyboard and mouse and be able to sit for long periods at his/her desk as well as occasionally visit employees throughout the building to gather data and clarify information.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job are those necessary for clearly reading printed material and information printed on a computer screen.
• Position requires the ability to think and respond at the level necessary to execute the position’s essential functions.

The work environment conditions are typical of both an office and a manufacturing environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the basic functions. The…