Production Supervisor

Summary:

The main function of a production supervisor is to supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers.

• Recommend measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
• Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control and maintenance to detect production problems.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personal grievances.
• Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.

• Verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance.
• Knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models.

• Trim shop, multiple conveyors and about 250 people, different areas they might be in trim 1 or trim 2, door line. The department may change; they will rotate among general assembly groups, managing 20‑40 people (team leaders, hourly UAW employees), with 6 direct team‑leader reports and 30 in total under them.
• Extensive interaction with many people throughout their shift, working with the entire team of 30.
• Potential for an extension, possibly as early as six months into the contract.

• Associate's Degree required;
  Bachelor's Degree nice to have.
• At least 3‑5 years of experience.
• UAW/union experience is nice to have.
• Six Sigma or other problem‑solving certificates is nice to have.
• Face‑paced environment/automotive background is a nice to have; automotive background is a huge plus.

Must be willing to rotate shifts.

• 1st shift 6 AM – 2:30–3 PM.
• 2nd shift 4 PM – 12:30 AM.
• Rotate every 4 months; the starting shift will be TBD, likely 1st shift then rotate to 2nd shift in 4 months.