Hollowcore Supervisor

Job Details

Job Location:

Mid States Concrete Industries
- South Beloit, IL 61080

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 Salary

Job Shift: First Shift

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Are you driven, hardworking, and passionate about building something that lasts? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced team environment where safety, quality, and craftsmanship are top priorities? If you're ready to take on the challenge, Mid-States Concrete Industries is hiring top talent to join our growing team!

The Hollowcore Supervisor is responsible for directing all day-to-day Hollowcore production activities, ensuring products are manufactured safely, efficiently, and in accordance with engineering requirements, quality standards, and production schedules. This position oversees Hollowcore production and Kitting/Woodshop/Foam operations while coordinating closely with Planning & Throughput, Engineering, Quality Control, Maintenance, Fabrication, Shipping, and other supporting departments to maintain uninterrupted production.

The Hollowcore Supervisor is responsible for developing employees, maintaining production standards, maximizing bed utilization and throughput, improving operational performance, and fostering a culture of safety, accountability, quality, and continuous improvement.

• Execute production schedules established by the Production Manager/Manager of Planning & Throughput. Coordinate daily bed assignments and production priorities.
• Monitor production progress throughout the shift. Ensure beds are stripped, cleaned, set up, stressed, produced, cured, cut, and released efficiently.
• Remove production bottlenecks and constraints. Balance manpower between Hollowcore, Kitting/Woodshop/Foam, and supporting operations based on workload.
• Ensure daily and weekly bed production goals are achieved safely and efficiently. Minimize lost bed time and unnecessary production delays.
• Maintain consistent workflow between stripping, setup, production, cutting, and material handling.

• Coordinate daily labor requirements. Review upcoming Hollowcore production requirements.
• Verify beds, strand, embeds, insulation, foam, blockouts, materials, drawings, and equipment are ready before production begins. Ensure kitting and woodshop requirements are completed ahead of scheduled production.
• Identify potential production constraints before they impact the schedule.
• Coordinate with:
  Planning & Throughput, Quality Control, Fabrication, Maintenance, Shipping and Yard.
• Communicate schedule changes and production priorities. Coordinate bed turnover to support the next scheduled production cycle.
• Escalate material, drawing, equipment, or manpower shortages that could impact production.

• Conduct daily safety observations. Ensure employees follow established Hollowcore production and stressing procedures.
• Ensure proper lockout/tagout and equipment safety requirements are followed. Enforce safe stressing and de-tensioning practices.
• Monitor safe crane and material handling practices. Investigate incidents and near misses.
• Ensure proper PPE usage. Correct unsafe conditions and behaviors immediately.
• Promote a proactive safety culture throughout the department.

• Ensure products meet engineering drawings, specifications, and established quality standards. Verify proper bed setup prior to production.
• Ensure strand patterns, stressing requirements, blockouts, embeds, openings, insulation, and other production details are correct. Monitor concrete placement/extrusion and production quality.
• Ensure proper dimensions and production tolerances are maintained. Monitor cutting and finished product quality.
• Reduce defects, discrepancies, damage, and rework. Support corrective actions and root cause investigations.
• Drive First Pass Yield (FPY) improvements. Work closely with Quality Control to address recurring Hollowcore discrepancies.
• Reinforce standardized work and quality expectations with employees.

• Monitor and improve:
  Daily beds produced, Pieces and square footage produced, Bed utilization, Labor efficiency, Schedule adherence, Bed cycle time, Setup and changeover time, Production downtime, Equipment downtime, Rework and discrepancies, Overtime utilization, Department productivity, Cutting and stripping efficiency, Lost production time
• Use production performance data to identify constraints and develop corrective actions.