Production Supervisor

Job Title: Production Supervisor  

OC Business Title: Production Supervisor  

PURPOSE OF THE JOB 

The Production Supervisor is responsible for the safe, quality-focused and efficient day to day operation of a manufacturing shift of personnel. The person in this role assumes the responsibility to ensure their staff is properly trained to perform their primary functions autonomously and creates and maintains a sustainable plan to cross train for maximum flexibility of their shift compliment. 

Reports to:  Operations Leader 

Span of Control: Position is responsible for direct leadership of approximately 15 employees  

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES  

Aligns with the Roofing and Asphalt business goals.  

• Develops and achieves personal objectives that stretch self and align to the Department, Plant, Division and Company goals. 

• Success will be measured by the Production Supervisor’s ability to coordinate with peer group to collectively achieve operational excellence in safety, quality, cost control, inclusion, engagement, inter-department cohesion and compliance. 

• Assists in developing their staff understanding of the equipment, process, and the effects of their actions up and downstream to their area. Ensures a macro and micro level understanding of the plant processes and the inter-relation to the individual work area. 

• Is a positive change agent encouraging and closely involved in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) efforts to ensure shift culture mirrors initiatives? 

• Ensures Operator training materials are maintained up to date through routine audit and management of change process input to Training and Development (T&D) Pillar Leader when changes occur in process settings, equipment, etc. 

Accountable for employee safety. 

• Models the appropriate safe work practices and prioritizes safety above all other metrics 

• Holds others accountable for working safely and engaging actively in safety initiatives to maintain a zero- incident culture 

• Provides appropriate resources to ensure a fully engaged and incident-free operation  

• Ensures the plant is always in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identifies hazards, including housekeeping issues, resolves and sustains the plan in an ongoing fashion 

• Ensures the safe manufacture of a quality product in accordance with schedule requirements 

Demonstrate the commitment to build an exceptional workplace environment; fostering open communication, employee engagement, and inclusion. 

• Actively manages the continued training, development and growth of all personnel. 

• Provides daily management of timekeeping systems to ensure payroll accuracy is maintained 

• Encourages a culture of data driven decision making 

• Sets clear expectations of performance and establishes, communicates and regularly reviews commitments to make certain milestones are achieved as planned 

• Audits daily to ensure data accuracy of all inputs (e.g. check sheets, layered process audits, computer inputs, etc.) 

• Professional and motivating communication skills to recognize and bring out the best in each employee 

• When operating on an off shift, represents the entire management team 

JOB REQUIREMENTS 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred (Majors - Engineering or Business are strongly preferred) 

EXPERIENCE: 

• Experience directly leading people in an industrial manufacturing or maintenance operations environment is strongly preferred. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES: 

• Knowledge of Lean, 6S, and TPM 

• Ability to reduce waste through continuous improvement of existing processes 

• Mechanical aptitude highly preferable