Production Supervisor

Overview

As a Production Group Leader in Dryer, you will be overseeing the support of team members either directly or through the Team Leads within your area/zone. You will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day activities to maintain safety, quality, delivery, and cost requirements within Small Chassis Dryer.

The hours for this position are 4:30am-3:00pm, Monday-Thursday with the potential of overtime on Fridays. This position is onsite in Ripon, Wisconsin.

• Creates a safe work culture by ensuring safety standard practices are adhered to, safety action team involvement, and ergonomic evaluations completed on every new operation and equipment
• Works with Quality, Team Members, and Team Leaders to ensure all products produced meet or exceed customer requirements
• Empowers and expects every team member to contribute to continuous improvement
• Demonstrates a core value of respectful treatment of all team members in every discussion, interaction and decision
• Provide daily direction to Team Leads to ensure KPI requirements are achieved safely
• Complete attendance and time keeping requirements for your hourly team members daily
• Drive waste reduction through lean techniques
• Ensure that employees are properly trained by their Team Lead or other designated trainer in the areas of safety, quality, equipment operation and 5S
• Interface with technical staff to ensure proper support
• Establish annual goals and objectives that support the attainment of operating metrics
• Serve as the first point of contact for employees regarding employee relations issues
• Interface with Union Stewards in contract and discipline issues
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge/

Experience:

• Proven history of ability to lead with a servant leadership mindset.
• A minimum of three years of experience in a medium/high volume, fast‑paced manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Previous Assembly line supervision experience would be preferred.

Skills and Abilities:

• Must be self-driven and ambitious with proven leadership capabilities, including providing coaching, mentoring and supervision within a team environment.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Strong problem solving skills, including encouraging others on your team to think proactively and create solutions.
• Basic understanding of process control, production scheduling, Kaizen, Kanban and Lean manufacturing is preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Manufacturing Engineering or Operations is preferred.
• Associate Degree in Business Management or Engineering with previous leadership experience in a manufacturing setting would be considered.
• Previous professional, internship or co‑op experience will be taken into consideration as relevant experience.

Physical Requirements

• Position involves sitting, standing and walking extensively, manual dexterity, stooping, bending and minimal lifting.

EEO Alliance Laundry Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities and persons of all Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities.