Production Supervisor

SUMMARY: Responsible for Leading the activities of production employees to maintain safety, quality, and efficient productions. The Production Supervisor is responsible for training employees, planning, assigning and directing work, safely maximize quality, and leading employees to improve.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist Superintendent/Plant Manager in leading production.
• Responsible for shift safety activities to include housekeeping, and working with the Production employees and shift maintenance to address any safety concerns that can be remedied on shift
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, and job orders, and assign duties
• Interface with others in the company to ensure customer deadlines are met.
• Inspect and measure parts and products to verify conformance to specifications.
• Acts as a resource to the production employees in helping resolve key issues and concerns as well as identifying Best Practices and efficiencies.
• Explains and enforces policies, identifies violations of policies and procedures to Shift Supervisor for further action needed.
• Document Training with HR; coordinate relevant training sessions.
• Planning and organizing schedule of the department per manager by assessing projects and the resources required to meet daily production schedule determined by Superintendent.
• Assists Superintendent in assessing root cause failure analysis for quality concerns and issues.
• Attentive to safety, productivity, quality standards, and practice lean manufacturing techniques.
• Provides feedback to Superintendent in relation to employee performance, moral, and training gaps.
• Duties may be expanded upon and additional duties may be assigned.

Safety

• Ensure all safety procedures are being followed by employees.
• Work closely with safety department to eliminate any safety hazards that may arise and to help keep our team members safe.
• Supply employees with the correct tools / safety equipment needed to perform their duties safely.
• Participate in all safety training provided and lead by example.
• Ensure that safety is always part of what we do.
• Comply with all safety guidelines and procedures.
• Coach / train employees on safe work practices

Production

• Provide each employee with the proper training needed for his / her position.
• Ensure all machines are in good running condition. Enter work orders for issues that arise and follow up that they are corrected.
• Cross train all employees to maximize their skills and so that they can fill in on any machine for calls ins as needed.
• Work closely with maintenance to ensure any breakdowns are repaired as quickly as possible.
• Organize and follow up on PMs on all converting machines.
• Coach / mentor crews on areas of needed improvement. Provide them with the resources to be successful
• Communicate to the crews production numbers for the week.
• Help to eliminate bottlenecks to improve uptime. Work with the crews to reduce set up times.
• Manage production floor so that all machines can run at maximum running speeds with minimal downtime.

Housekeeping

• Ensure housekeeping is always an ongoing effort to keep our plant visitor ready.
• Provide employees with the proper tools needed to keep their work area clean and organized.
• Lead by example and do my part to help keep the plant clean.
• Assign area to employees and monitor that they are keeping their area clean.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position has supervisory responsibilities.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• High School diploma or equivalent, some college preferred
• 2+ years in a supervisory role
• 5+ years in manufacturing, corrugated industry experience highly preferred
• Prior leadership Experience
• Project management skills
• Technical skills
• Organization and efficiency
• Problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a team setting.
• Able to read a tape measure with speed and accuracy.
• Knowledge equipment design and capabilities that can be translated into efficient operation.
• Read and interpret product layout and production specifications.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to handle or feel.
• The employee frequently is required to talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Exposure to wet and humid conditions.
• Exposure to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud.