Pourline Manager

Strategic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Meet HSE budgeted KPI
• Meet budgeted scrap & MUV KPI
• Meet budgeted CIP KPI

Operational Management:

• Lead daily SQDC meetings.
• Provide daily production formulations.
• Plan work schedules and assign duties to maintain adequate staffing levels, ensuring effective activities and responsiveness to fluctuating workloads.
• Data entry, record-keeping, and reporting for the department as needed.

Coordination and Collaboration:

• Coordinate with other supervisors on the daily schedule, workflow, and personnel issues.
• Collaborate with employees and managers to solve work-related problems.
• Coordinate with Sales and Management concerning foam requirements.

Quality Assurance and Improvement:

• Review work throughout the work process and at completion to ensure proper performance.
• Check specifications of materials against information contained in work orders to ensure product quality.
• Ensure all foam testing requirements are adhered to and carried out by trained personnel.
• Identify opportunities within the department and plant for continuous improvement in the quality of foam and work processes.

Employee Management and Development:

• Evaluate employee performance.
• Prepare and maintain work records and reports.
• Fill in for any area, employee, department as needed.

Order Processing and Material Management:

• Process orders to communicate material flow and follow up on rush, sample, or shortage orders.
• Check all equipment, tools, PPE to ensure they are in proper and safe condition.
• Ensure that workers are using personal protective equipment, complying with all safety/environmental policies, and using safe work practices.
• Coordinate with the Human Resource Department and Plant Management to document infractions and discipline employees for poor performance, violation of safety practices, and other policy/rule violations, as necessary.

Production Monitoring and Communication:

• Report changes in production that affect the essential job duties, minimum job requirements, and possible safety hazards for jobs in areas of responsibility to the HR Department/Safety Coordinator to ensure job descriptions and JSAs are kept current.
• Ensure good housekeeping practices are maintained and proactively identify/eliminate potential safety hazards in the work area.
• Check the quality of material coming into departments and monitor the status of various orders.
• Maintain adequate foam and chemical inventory levels. Order and receive chemicals and other materials, as needed using JD Edwards.
• Relay any necessary information to plant personnel.
• Coordinate with the Maintenance Department to maximize equipment utilization.

Quality System Management:

• Communicate all quality system changes to personnel and ensure quality system integrity.
• Encourage personnel under supervision to meet customer requirements as required by applicable SOP’s.
• Stop shipment and production to correct quality problems.
• Environment aspect and impact awareness.
• Report any inconsistency or nonconformance in the product and participate in the corrective/preventive actions process.
• Delegate with responsibility for ensuring conformity to product requirements.