Production supervisor

Production Supervisor

Coordinate and direct the activities of the production department to maximize productivity and minimize cost while maintaining quality.

Inspect product to verify production specifications are met. Train and supervise production personnel. Direct shift supervisors on production volume, quality standards, cost constraints and scheduling requirements.

Ensure effective utilization and maintenance of plant resources, recommend major equipment purchases. Ensure that production targets are met and maintain health and safety standards.

Performance Expectations

• Manage, initiate, and direct the activities of employee's and equipment
• Allocating work to employees, setting production targets and communicating precise instructions.
• Effective employee relations.
• Respond to employee concerns promptly and work with HR to resolve.
• Monitor and initiate training activities in their department and all related documentation.
• Works and ensures that all employees work in a safe manner, in a safe environment.
• Conduct employee meetings.
• Complete performance evaluations for their department as required.
• Perform weekly safety inspections, 5s inspections, Layered Audits.
• Complete tasks as assigned from Monthly Workplace Inspections.
• Participate in the corrective action process.
• Must be able to troubleshoot equipment.
• Plan employees’ days, schedule appointments and adjust schedules in response to customers' demands.
• Review turnaround times for repairs and installations and diverse skills of workers to ensure job tasks are assigned to appropriate workers.
• Change work assignments and schedules to maintain and improve efficiency.
• Develop work schedules for workers.

Credentials

• Possess excellent comprehension skills to read completed inspection forms to ensure all maintenance, repair and inspection tasks have been adequately completed by workers.
• Good communication skills in order to communicate with managers and supervisors to explain progress of jobs and to obtain instructions and tasks.
• Possess coaching skills to train employees and less experienced workers to install new equipment, perform maintenance tasks and troubleshoot mechanical and electrical faults.

Organize and lead meetings with employees

• Assume a wide variety of roles to coordinate job tasks with those of junior workers, co-workers and subcontractors. Work according to company mandates for communication, meetings and projects.
• Ability to operate and troubleshoot machines and equipment.
• Knowledgeable in basic computer applications and software such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Ability to continuously learn to keep up with new technologies, new products, new information and regulatory changes within industry.

Participate in seminars, courses, and other learning opportunities through the organization

Knowledge of applicable employment and safety legislation.

Desired Characteristics

• Good Communication skills and ability to coordinate projects between engineers, contractors, technicians and suppliers
• Ability to decide appropriate materials, measuring tools, methods and standards of equipment to use for projects
• Identify and lead continuous improvement programs
• Opportunities for career advancement.
• Community based outreach supporting both local and global initiatives and charities.

Linamar Corporation is a Canadian diversified global manufacturing company of highly engineered products across global industries & markets.

From the entrepreneurial seeds planted by our dynamic founder, to the support provided along the way, all Linamar employees are poised for success in this fast-paced and rapidly growing environment.

With access to the tools you need to succeed, you will make an impact along with other motivated and engaged people.

Linamar is an equal opportunity employer and encourages diversity in the workplace without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Linamar encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will reasonably accommodate applicants throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process upon request

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Last updated : 2024-05-03