Manufacturing Supervisor

Description

Job Title: Manufacturing Supervisor

Reports To: Operations Manager

Department: GHM/Marine Products

Level of Work: Level II

Position Summary:

The ideal candidate for a manufacturing supervisor role over welders possesses a blend of technical welding knowledge, leadership abilities, and managerial skills. This combination enables them to effectively guide their team, maintain quality standards, and drive production success.

Key Results
Areas:

Manage, lead, engage, hold accountable and develop department employees to ensure job satisfaction and growth.

• Practice positive employee engagement methodologies and serve as a key communicator, trainer, motivator, and coach for the department.
• Develop and manage direct reports including quarterly one-on-one meetings to coach, correct and recognize behaviors.
• Conduct quarterly/annual performance reviews with staff.
• Directly oversee all performance issues and progressive discipline practices.
• Manage personal performance by setting and communicating clear goals and expectations.
• Communicate the company’s goals and objectives to the staff and identify key metrics to ensure that their team is driving to the company’s goals and objectives.
• Cultivate and foster the company’s core values.
• Establish a strengths-based culture for assessing, applying, and development of employees.
• Reward or recognize employees as appropriate based on performance.

Monitor and ensure their department operates effectively and meets the organizations goals and objectives.

• Drive budget performance, profitability and cost reduction efforts to ensure the department stays on track to meet the financial plan year over year.
• Proactively coordinate team and individual work assignments to achieve daily goals and objectives to ensure schedule adherence and to optimize the overall efficiency and utilization of the shop.
• Ensure that individual work outcomes are complete and accurate and meet standards set by Graham.
• Develop and standardize processes that will enable employees to perform processes consistently.
• Encourage employees to identify problems or improvement ideas for department processes.
• Provide technical oversight and direction as required, to assist in troubleshooting or root cause analysis on difficult problems.
• Manage cycle time and capacity throughout the department to ensure on time delivery.
• Monitor Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC) to ensure that the Manufacturing Department is meeting its metrics and deliverables to ensure company strategy is met.
• Identify opportunities and improve processes to drive customer deliverables and to obtain required results.
• Monitor the production preparation process to ensure accuracy and completion.
• Monitor production results to ensure quality parts are moved to assembly.
• Proactively identify and overcome manufacturing constraints with equipment, processes, and staffing by developing alternative options, adjusting plans accordingly, and realigning.
• Monitor reactive maintenance to determine root cause and corrective actions and incorporate the actions into the maintenance plans.

Collaborate with all departments to ensure that information and data transfers effectively to meet customer needs and organizational objectives.

• Obtain teams daily work status and issues to report to appropriate team.
• Communicate manufacturing priorities from meetings to team to ensure daily plan is executed.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure drawings, work instructions and bill of material (BOM) documents needed for production are complete and accurate.
• Collaborate with Quality to resolve product or process nonconformances.
• Collaborate and partner with Human Resources to assess individual compensation and ensure that all employees are paid according to their performance.

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