Production Supervisor

ESSENTIAL DUTIES: 1. Leads and participates in DMS and OEE meetings and serves as back-up to Line Leaders. 2. Communicates relevant information with Production Supervisors on alternate shifts for shift handovers to ensure consistency and meet priorities. 3. Maintains KPIs and updates and audits DMS boards accordingly. 4. Assures lines are running efficiently through assignment of resources and delegation of responsibilities. 5. Addresses and escalates people, machine, method and material deviations as necessary. 6. Ensures performance of autonomous maintenance activities. 7. Audits, ensures and validates shift activities are consistently being performed; includes planning, quality checks, standard work, time and attendance reporting, and OEE system updates, including hour-by-hour bottleneck station tracking. 8. Partners with logistics for planning, including attendance in daily meetings. 9. Partners with Line Leads and Production Managers to update training matrices in effort to ensure manpower flexibility. 10. Establishes strong and effective working relationships that are conducive to maintaining a positive work environment. 11. Ensures team members are trained, in accordance with training matrices and onboarding plans, understand their roles and responsibilities, and are given appropriate performance feedback. 12. Promotes and drives the organization's vision and utilization of KPS (Lean Manufacturing) methodologies. 13. Ensures compliance with all company procedures and policies; addresses issues and lack of compliance through coaching and feedback and escalates as necessary. 14. Responsible for interviewing, hiring and department training and onboarding to ensure full competency and production efficiency in areas of responsibility. 15. Understands and adheres to current company health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures, including ISO14001. Is empowered to identify, stop, and communicate or escalate appropriate action regarding safety, health, and environmental concerns. 16. Understands and adheres to current company quality policies and procedures, including IATF16949. Is empowered to identify, stop, and communicate or escalate appropriate action regarding product quality. Uses standard inspection equipment or CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) to check parts produced. Inspects parts to operator QCI (Quality Control Instructions) requirements. 17. Responsible for first piece inspection by assuring all print tolerances are held after set up and accurately completes job cards. Fills out SPC (Statistical Process Control) charts and all charts required for the operation, where applicable. 18. Performs other duties as assigned, including coverage on line and in other departments/shifts as required. CORE COMPETENCIES: 1. Leadership: Demonstrates ability to give direction, motivate, manage and reward performance, provide constructive feedback and foster individual professional development. 2. Entrepreneurship and Decision Making: Demonstrates ability to discover opportunities in challenges, seek profit and sustainable growth, make courageous while sound decisions and demonstrate a good business understanding. 3. Influential and Inspirational: Demonstrates the ability to convince others to embrace ideas, providing compelling arguments and making use of informal processes. 4. Accountability: Demonstrates ability to take responsibility and maintains sense of ownership and follow through on commitments. Sets high standards of performance for team. 5. Communication: Demonstrates ability to convey and distribute information effectively and encompass strong speaking, presentation, written and listening skills. Ability to create an environment for open communication. 6. Teamwork: Demonstrates ability to work well with others to accomplish common goals and build a positive climate and trusting relationships within teams. WORKING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: 1. May be exposed to moderate heat, light dust, fumes, extreme temperatures, noise and hazards such as electrical shock or gases. Some outside assignments could involve exposure to adverse weather conditions. Adequate hearing protection is required for 85 decibels and above. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: 1. This position has supervisory responsibilities. SCHEDULE: 1. Standard Day Shift Hours Monday through Friday The demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. Requirements QUALIFICATIONS: 1. College Degree or High School Diploma/GED and relevant Manufacturing Experience 2. Supervisory experience 3. Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams) 4. Experience in production/manufacturing environment 5. Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing techniques with emphasis on Standardized Work, Continuous Improvement, 5S, and JIT principles 6. Ability to work overtime as needed both daily and weekends