Coating Lead Production Supervisor

• Accountable to ensure safety and environmental leadership is always present on shift. Provides training, conducts audits, and implements associated corrective measures to ensure a safe working environment for all employees. Trains, develops and follows up with the shift supervisors such that all safe working practices and policies are followed and enforced. Follows up on all incidents to ensure initial investigations were properly completed on shift and gathers additional evidence if necessary to develop standards and create an environment where incidents are not repeated.
• Provide direction and leadership to the shift supervision to ensure the completion of the production schedule while achieving optimum performance from the production line. Ensure the shift teams are monitoring the proper KPIs in real time to anticipate and react to conditions which would lead to lower-than-expected performance.
• Carries out administrative duties to ensure that the correct manning levels to meet production requirements are maintained on all shifts and UKG records are maintained.
• Work closely with the other supervisors and managers within the plant to ensure the production goals of all departments are met, including manning movement within the production / warehouse team and optimization of maintenance.
• Provides support to the process engineers in all areas of process improvement and performance enhancement, including the continuous improvement meetings and planning meetings.
• Support and develop the shift supervision to use SOPs and structured methods to trouble shoot problems, change process variables to control and optimize the operation.
• Provide feedback to the process engineers to ensure SOPs reflect actual process needs and result in the most efficient work methods to achieve desired goals with a focus to eliminate waste and ineffective actions.
• Ensure the shift teams are trained on the use of the various diagnostic tools and basic defect identification so issues pertaining to quality and loss of product can be addressed timely.
• Champion the workforce to sustain and improve the standards of housekeeping, orderliness, and cleanliness through the establishment of routine, structured 5S activities, check sheets and rounds. Coordinate efforts to implement "Quick Kaizen" ideas generated by the various shifts.
• Ensure shift supervision is uniformly enforcing plant safety and work rules, following up immediately anytime a deviation is not addressed appropriately.
• Support and develop shift supervision toward applying the appropriate training for the hourly team they supervise, creating expectations, documentation, and training materials as needed.
• Collaborate with the process engineers to develop consistent and effective training plans, ensuring all shift operators and supervisors are proficient at the various jobs and can properly determine effective process adjustments to maintain production line performance.
• Constantly evaluate the training plans, work routines and procedures within the department to foster a culture of continual improvement, training supervision and engineers on equipment troubleshooting and intervention techniques.
• Cover shift supervisory vacancies as they may arise from time to time due to vacations, illness, etc.
• Ensure all actions undertaken comply with the collective bargaining agreement and maintain effective relationships with the employees' designated Union Representatives. Provide proper training and guidance to the shift supervision to follow the requirements of the CBA.
• Adherence to NSG/Pilkington Standards of Business Conduct and its Values and Principles
• Other managerial duties as assigned.

$80,952 - $101,186

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