Production Supervisor

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The purpose of the Production Supervisor role is to ensure an efficient day to day operation of a manufacturing shift of highly engaged personnel. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining an energized environment, where employees work together to safely produce quality products that meet or exceed our customer’s requirements and to maximize company growth and earnings.

Accountable for employee safety

•    Models the appropriate safe work practices and prioritizes safety above all other metrics.
•    Keeps the team focused on safe work behaviors, holding employees and peers accountable for working safely. Maintain active engagement in safety initiatives to maintain a zero-incident culture. 

•    Ensures the plant is always in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identified 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.

Align with the Roofing and Asphalt business goals
•    Is a positive change agent encouraging and closely involved in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) efforts to ensure shift culture mirrors initiatives.
•    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 relation to the individual work area.

•    Manages and assists with the succession planning processes for the shift. Perform and ensure proper documentation of training and cross-training of all employees as necessary to maintain a flexible work environment capable of meeting varied demands.
 
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.  Ensures compliance with the plant’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.
•    Provides daily management of production data recording systems (e.g. SAP, POP, etc.) to ensure accurate inventory and reporting. Audits daily to ensure data accuracy of all inputs (e.g. check sheets, layered process audits, computer inputs, etc.).
•    Maintains professional and motivating communication skills. Encourage all employees to build strong working relationships and communication through sharing, respect, candor, integrity, innovation, accountability, and fun.
 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

•    Completed High School Diploma or GED required

• Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred
• Experience directly leading people in an industrial manufacturing or maintenance operations union environment is strongly preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Good understanding of manufacturing processes and the ability to apply the principals of Lean Manufacturing
• Effective interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication, listening, coaching, delegation, and conflict management and resolution
• Ability to make critical decisions and take decisive action in a timely manner
• Capacity to work independently and within a team-oriented environment
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Wear required PPE equipment (safety glasses, bump cap, steel toe boots, ear protection, heat/cut resistant gloves, long sleeve shirt, and face mask)
• Climb and descend stairs
• Lift, push, and pull 50lbs repetitively
• Repetitive hand, arm, leg movements

COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE COMPENTENCIES

A strong candidate must be able to:
•    Utilize basic computer skills; ability to work in SAP, POP, Excel, PowerPoint, and Kronos 

•    Log into and navigate Owens Corning Learning portal to complete required online training routinely

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