Production Supervisor

Company Summary

Sterling Site Access Solutions, LLC is a national vertically integrated site access service provider to the North American Energy Infrastructure Marketplace. An Illinois based company, with facilities located across the country, including regional construction offices, distribution centers and world class manufacturing facilities. As a data driven company, Sterling provides complete turnkey ground protection products and services to the transmission & distribution, renewables, civil and oil & gas markets. Sterling is committed to developing our employees, providing best in class customer service and being responsible stewards of the environment.

Position Summary

Responsible for leading, guiding, and continuously improving the day-to-day activities of the machining, finishing, and packaging operations within Sterling's Structural CLT Department. This is a high visibility and challenging position and a key role in the company's primary growth strategy. Safety, product quality, productivity, workforce, and machinery performance are among the critical and key metrics for this position. Core competencies shall include leadership and motivational skills, technical capability, and team orientated problem solving.

Essential Functions

• On the floor leadership and guidance of machining, finishing, packaging and shipping operations.
• Lead on-boarding for new employees and train all to understand standard work, job safety analysis (JSA's), 5S and visual factory.
• Train, encourage, and challenge existing employees to improve skills and their overall contribution to high quality conversion of products in a safe manner.
• Manage employee schedules including but not limited to approving and tracking time off, absenteeism, and timecards.
• Manage, enforce, and communicate employee relations issues according to company policy. Implement disciplinary notices/write-ups when necessary, involving Operations Manager when appropriate.
• Evaluate employee performance and conduct performance reviews.
• Assist with department staffing needs and staffing decision making, participating in the interview and evaluation.
• Adhere to standard work as the foundation of controlling and continuously improving methods and techniques.
• Maintain and assist with developing safe work practices using JSA's to document, communicate, and train on Safety.
• Guide and develop change-over techniques and practices to achieve world class uptime.
• Assist with the performance of root cause analysis on product or equipment failures and put in place countermeasures to eliminate or minimize future occurrence.
• Work closely, and collaborate with, the Quality Technician to surface problems with methods, techniques, and equipment with the objective of continuously improving our people, processes, and problem-solving techniques.
• Organization of inventory (parts, supplies, tools) and personal tools to ensure optimum efficiency of the work force.
• Work to maintain balanced work content (flow) between departments and operations.
• Assist leadership with the measurement of daily performance and productivity.
• Participates in projects as requested by management.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Highschool graduate, or GED is required.
• Minimum of three (3) years supervising and directing an hourly or production workforce.
• Minimum of three (3) years progressive work experience in a manufacturing or production environment.
• Experience in 5S, Lean Manufacturing, and formalized problem solving preferred.
• Experience operating forklifts and overhead cranes is preferred.
• Exposure to carpentry and CNC machining is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflict resolution.
• Strong written and oral communication skills. Bilingual preferred (English/Spanish).
  
  

Disclaimer

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, and/or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position.

EEO Statement

Sterling Site Access Solutions, LLC ( "Sterling ") is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Sterling are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate.