Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Department:
Conformal Coating

Schedule:

Monday - Friday (occasional Saturdays)

Hours:

3:00 PM EST - 12:00 AM EST

The Production Supervisor for Conformal Coating will direct and coordinate the operations team and activities in support of production assembly. Continually optimize processes to predictably produce existing customers’ products, ensuring cost, quality, and delivery goals are achieved. Reports to the Operations Manager.

• Plan and execute the production schedule based on the MRP.
• Work with Planners/Production Control, Quality Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Program Managers, and other cross-functional team members to continually improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity.
• Ensures that the department is properly staffed to hit delivery/productivity goals.
• Meets required customer demand by scheduling the staff and equipment.
• Work closely with Human Resources and Operations Management to achieve accurate direct labor staffing levels.
• Work with engineering to ensure that procedures and training are made available to employees.
• Manage and analyze production capacity vs. demand.
• Generate and report all labor efficiency data.
• Capable of analyzing daily operating reports and shifting resources as needed.
• Assist in providing product/process training to the operations team.
• Help enforce and maintain daily management systems, Pareto charts, HRXHR, and participates/drives Gemba.
• Assure that all pieces of equipment have up-to-date PMs as needed.
• Participate on new product introduction (NPI) teams and ensure the successful start-up of those processes.
• Drive cross-functional resolution of all issues that impact manufacturing.
• Prepare work-in-process status reports.
• Help initiate requests and justification of capital equipment, employee requisitions, and purchase orders.
• Develop and maintain a working knowledge of our product to hold productive conversations around availability, quality, and any process problems with cross-functional team.
• Conduct root cause analysis (5 Whys) to determine reasons for unstable processes and develop corrective action with the cross-functional team.
• Other responsibilities as directed and necessary for the business.

• Employee development and performance assessment in conjunction with Human Resources.
• Provide direct supervision to all levels and disciplines assigned to specific production lines.
• Interpret company policies for workers, enforce safety regulations, and maintain housekeeping guidelines.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment; high-volume, system-level, mechanical assembly and/or SMT manufacturing preferred.
• Experience working with acrylic, epoxy, urethane, silicone, and paraxylylene for printed circuit boards preferred.
• Familiarity with conformal coating standards such as MIL-I-46058C, IPC-CC-830B, etc.
• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of ISO
  9001 and IPC Standards preferred.
• Intermediate business tools/ applications knowledge (i.e., email, Excel, MS Word, etc.)
• Experience in a variety of technical disciplines and product technologies.
• Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, organizational, and team-building skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, along with organizational and time-management skills.
• Background in Lean/Continuous Improvement methodologies;
  Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred.
• Ability to motivate employees and build a strong “team” atmosphere.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with cross-functional groups.
• US Person as defined in 22 CRF Part 120.15 (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and those given asylum in the United States, and temporary residents granted amnesty) since work includes ITAR controlled technical data.