Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for a Production Supervisor- 2nd Shift at our Elyria OH location. Hours are 3:00pm-Midnight (including an hour meal break)

About Crane:
Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Elyria facility has been a bedrock in the community-friendly town of Elyria, Ohio, for more than a century.

Known for our excellence in pumping technology, our Elyria site produced the first-ever positive displacement pump for high-performance piston engine aircraft and even supplied pumps for Charles Lindbergh in the 1930s. We have more than 150,000 fuel and lubrication pumps in service today and are proud to offer custom thermal management system solutions for a range of next-gen applications.

Start the next chapter of your career with Crane Aerospace & Electronics!

The Production Supervisor leads and directs a team of employees in an assigned area of operations such as Metal Fabrication, Assembly, and/or Test. The Production Supervisor is accountable for maintaining a safe working environment and adhering to quality standards and is responsible for meeting customer demand schedules within established cost goals. Supervision may include the management of employees on more than one shift.

• Identify and use lean manufacturing tools required to drive improvements and mentor teammates in the use of these tools
• Provide inputs (resource planning, overtime projections, productivity improvements) to management to develop monthly and annual budgets
• Assist Value Stream Managers with required monthly reporting to senior level management
• Review and understand daily key performance indicators to evaluate the current status and gap to plan, and use this data to drive daily problem solving (8 Step, 5 Why, Cause and Effect, Fishbone) where required
• Ensure timely identification of quality issues using the non-conforming materials process to ensure scrap and rework are properly processed
• Serve as liaison to other groups, product lines and/or functional areas to ensure products are built, assembled, and/or tested within appropriate parameters
• Review the daily allocation of resources to drive production schedule to meet established customer requirements
• Make staffing decisions in accordance with human resource procedures to build and grow the team to meet the needs of the business
• Develop, coach, and mentor employees using performance planning to drive employee and business growth
• Any other task assigned by supervisor or management

• Provide input to and collaborate with Engineering and Quality to define and modify manufacturing instructions
• Use standard supply chain processes and partner with the Supply Chain team to develop material replenishment system for the manufacturing areas
• Ensure equipment complies with calibration and maintenance procedures and requirements

Experience:

2+ years supervisory experience; 5+ years of experience in manufacturing or machine knowledge preferred. Knowledge:
Deep understanding of cellular manufacturing practices;
Comfortable teaching the use of manufacturing based continuous improvement skills (standard work, 5S, material replenishment, etc.);
Intermediate skill level with MS Office software Skills/Abilities:
Effectively communicate (written and verbal) with all levels of the business and present to groups both small and large;
Ability to align customer demand with manufacturing capacity to develop labor planning/allocations;
Ability to use data to determine root causes of issues to drive focused corrective action

Education/Certification:

High School diploma or equivalent Eligibility Requirement:
This position may require access to Controlled Data or Information. Where the position requires such access only US Persons will be considered. As a US Department of Defense contractor, we are bound…