Production Supervisor

Job Title: Production Supervisor           

OC Business Title: Production Supervisor        

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.

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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred but not required.

EXPERIENCE:

• Must have a minimum of 3 years experience directly leading people in an industrial manufacturing or maintenance operations environment.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of Lean, 6S, and TPM
• Ability to reduce waste through continuous improvement of existing processes.
• Mechanical aptitude highly preferable
• Microsoft Office
• SAP
• Kronos