Shift Supervisor (1st Shift)

Overview

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to conform to the following: Perform quality work safely, and within deadlines, with or without direct supervision; Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers; Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments; Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.

Position Summary

The person in this role manages production manufacturing operations on a daily basis with a focus on safety and quality. Leads production room teams, production support, and representatives to ensure production is properly planned and executed to meet the demands of our customers. Assist support groups with daily tasks and long-term development projects. Responsible for daily decision making, focused on maximizing production and solving issues that affect deliveries, room efficiencies, manpower, parts supply, quality and other factors relating to production operations.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

· Ensures manufacturing operations are running at maximum efficiency.

· Responsible for ensuring manufacturing teams are hitting expected production numbers and production priorities are in line with customer demand and can achieve projected shipping requirements.

· Daily decision-making relative to what machines are required to run and what orders need to be completed based upon available production personnel and equipment. Assures communication of these requirements across all shifts

· Adheres to all aspects of plant safety and performing safety audits on a continual basis.

· Responsible for knowing what orders are starting and finishing and what change-overs are required for production continuity using production planning tools such as lean manufacturing practices, XA, and daily communication with production planners.

· Handles daily production related issues including manpower movements.

· Communicates material outages during production runs and drives resolution through support team involvement and communication during Tier 1 meetings.

· Follows up with issue resolution and material shortage resolution.

· Coordinates communications for updates and changing production situations.

· Manages in-room Gemba activities. Strong support for team leaders during presentations.

· Collaborate with your team and mentors team leaders.

· Manages execution of review process for production level employees and team leaders.

· Handles employee time-off requests, attendance recording, payroll approval for the shift and selected critical support groups.

· Identifies opportunities for improvement related to production downtime, inefficiencies, and other leading/lagging indicators.

· Works with lean teams to facilitate projects, drive to completion, and track status of A3 and kaizen reports.

· Collaborates lean team activities to Project Facilitator to drive to project completion.

· Responsible for Customer Audit Support as required.

· Responsible for opening and closing building as required under normal production.

· Develops and supports plans for weekend overtime, as needed

· Support the interview process and assist in coordinating onboarding and training for new hires

· Assist in the administration and oversight of the Operator Advancement Program, including tracking progress and following up with team members on required documentation for promotions.

· Support overtime efforts based on business needs and provide leadership coverage as needed

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervise the operations on an assigned shift according to the established policies and procedures

Physical Demands

Regularly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer. The person in this position needs to frequently move about inside the building to access other offices, meeting rooms, and equipment in the facility. Capable of flexing, bending, walking up to 8 hours per day. Occasionally needs to lift product up to 50 lbs.

The person in this position frequently communicates with vendors, and co-workers. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

Work Environment

Normal manufacturing conditions requiring safety observation at all times.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

Skills & Qualifications

· High School Diploma or equivalent. Some college preferred

· Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to navigate complex emotions, demonstrate empathy, and effectively de-escalate challenging situations

· Strong mechanical aptitude for production equipment and comfortable with using hand tools

· Understanding of LEAN manufacturing principles

· Strong mathematical aptitude

· Ability to mentor and lead peers and reports

· Attention to detail

· Strong work ethic

· Good organizational skills

· Ability to manage change

· Ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines

· Good analytical skills

· Knowledge of SPC

· Knowledge of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP)

· Ability to effectively interface with multiple levels within the organization

· First aid training preferred

Pay Range

· $65,000 - $85,000 annually

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