Supervisor Manufacturing

Job Title

Production Supervisor

New Albany, IN

3rd shift (Sunday - Thursday – 11pm - 7:30am)

Supervise direct labor within defined department or shifts, establish, monitor, and maintain efficient manufacturing processes and workflow for production demands. Provide direction, training, and guidance to assigned staff.

• Organize, implement, and maintain production process flow
• Train and supervise staff
• Establish and maintain quality culture
• Develop work instructions, workmanship standards, and process documentation, and ensure they are followed
• Continuously improve existing operations for increased quality, productivity, efficiency and cost savings
• Troubleshoot operational issues and report findings and recommended solutions to the broader team
• Liaise with Management, production planners and product engineering on all department requirements
• Provide manufacturing data i.e., production control charts, reliability, process capability, to improve the process and monitor and measure progress to targets
• Identify and achieve documented cost savings through process improvement
• Recommend new equipment and manage capital expenditure projects and justifications
• Ability to lead a team of people to drive improvement in all phases of an operation.
• Lead and assist with manufacturing improvement projects
• Organize meetings with other team members to facilitate growth.

• High School diploma or equivalent
• A.S. in engineering or other related fields
• preferred 3+ years’ experience in manufacturing environment
• Proven track record and working knowledge in a manufacturing industry
• Good knowledge of cell custom build, Lean Manufacturing, six sigma and ISO methodology

Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Materials Science, Social Media, Business Process, Management, Science, Marketing

Kennametal Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer