Assistant Production Supervisor

The Assistant Supervisor supports Metal and CM Division Supervisors in planning and coordinating both divisions. The Assistant Supervisor helps to direct production resources and maintain staff efficiency to effectively achieve safety, quality, production, customer satisfaction, budgetary, and scorecard goals. This position aids the Supervisor in organizing workflow with assignments, preparing employee schedules, and developing, coordinating, and supporting company and division systems, policies, and procedures.

Primary functions include:

* Aid supervisors in managing staff and resources, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity goals and expectations are met or exceeded.

* Assist supervisors in developing and maintaining the production schedule and coordinating the necessary resources to meet or exceed customer expectations in cooperation with customers, sales, and other departments as appropriate.

* Assist supervisors in coordinating with other supervisors/shifts to ensure that customer orders are completed on time and that any issues are communicated and addressed from shift to shift.

* Assist supervisors in maintaining inventory control, performing production entries, and managing production planning (including investigating and adjusting negative on-hand, transactions, work order management, and other issues as appropriate), along with associated reporting requirements.

* Review, verify, and enter daily production data, including labor entries, materials issued, scrap, and/or other data as needed.

* Perform inventory cycle counts and make corrections/reconciliations as needed.

* Aid supervisors in developing, maintaining, and issuing work orders, machine schedules, department schedules, and daily job assignments for staff.

* Perform time studies to verify machine rates, evaluate production rates for hourly employees, and address any issues in cooperation with supervisors.

* Identify and support staffing and training needs for each division in cooperation with supervisors, human resources, and the plant manager.

* Assist supervisors in mentoring staff, providing guidance and feedback where appropriate.

* Communicate employee performance to supervisors.

* Ensure housekeeping is maintained in all areas and address any deficiencies.

* Administer company rules, policies, procedures, and performance expectations.

* Identify and support opportunities for improvement in cooperation with the supervisor to drive operational efficiencies and effectiveness, eliminate waste, reduce cost, improve customer satisfaction, and/or improve employee satisfaction.

* Attend production/operations meetings, address action items from those meetings, and manage the shift and division in the supervisor's absence, with the assistance of the plant manager as needed.

* Other Miscellaneous duties as assigned.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED):
Required.

Associates Degree (two year college or technical school):
Preferred.

2 plus years of experience in a manufacturing setting as a group/team lead and/or related experience overseeing staff.

MS Office, including Word and Excel. ERP experience preferred.

First Aid, CPR and Bloodborne Pathogens certification preferred.

Monday thru Friday 6:00 am - 2:30 pm.