Production Supervisor - New Plant, New Opportunity!

Description

Great opportunity to grow with IMC Metals America and to be part of building the new plant and your production team. The Production supervisor position is responsible for leading a team of 12-20 hourly employees on 12-hour shift rotation. In many cases, the Production Supervisor will be the sole leadership staff on site. The ideal candidate will monitor the operation of the equipment, assign work and drive employee productivity, produce high quality products, and maintain a safe and efficient work environment throughout the entire facility.

Requirements

• Proactively manages the shift to meet safety, quality, labor, scrap, efficiency and cost standards.

• Effectively communicates and coaches their team to achieve shift/departmental safety, quality, and production goals for all plant processes.

• Demonstrates ownership of and adherence to facility and equipment standards

• Conduct performance evaluations as required while regularly working with their team to develop the overall skill set. 

• Routinely and regularly communicates with staff to support a positive workplace culture. 

• Assures adherence to standard work and safety policies.

• Conduct thorough shift exchange with both supervisors and operators.

• Conduct routine housekeeping inspections and observe team behaviors to ensure consistency with standard operating procedures.

• Lead investigations into safety, quality, and production downtime events, determine root cause, and develop effective corrective and preventive actions.

• Collects and analyzes relevant production statistics.

• Develop knowledge of all machinery and their respective processes of each operation.

• Verify time and attendance for direct reports as required and to assure efficient payroll processes.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• At least 2 years prior supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment or at least 5 years of demonstrated leadership ability in a skilled operator or team lead position.

• Committed to a high level of ownership of safety, efficiency, and quality.

• Demonstrated troubleshooting ability, strong work ethic and a sense of urgency.

• Ability to coach, motivate, and hold employees accountable.

• Ability to quickly learn technical processes and machinery to assist with real time troubleshooting and decision making for direct reports.

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills required; must be able to communicate at all levels of the organization.

• Must be able to work independently under pressure in a team oriented, ever-changing manufacturing environment.

• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Education

• High School Diploma/GED

• Some college education preferred but not required.