Supervisor II, Production

This position is located in our Charles City, Iowa facility.

Primary Objective of Position:

Responsible for the day to day management of people within production, to ensure company's targets and objectives are met to meet customer requirements, ensuring that staff comply with health, safety and standard operating procedures. Strive to continually improve using Lean tools to reduce costs, improve production and quality. Act with minimum supervision.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient work place is maintained at all times
• Ensuring that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved
• Liaise and coordinate with support functions to progress issues concerning production planning and resource/skill allocation to ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications
• Communicate with the teams by utilizing the visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement
• Drive performance of team members, giving direction and feedback to drive employee development
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to
• Motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
• Through the utilization of lean manufacturing techniques, strive to exceed the Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality on a continuous basis
• Support the implementation of engineering changes, production trials, model change and pilot build
• Report and act upon plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians
• Promote Total Productive Maintenance procedures to further improve the availability of the line
• Contribute in the improvement of working procedures by constantly looking for solutions to ensure the best productivity results of her/his machinery group and ensuring compliance with procedures, operating instructions and work instructions
• Support the resolution of Customer concerns, identify and eliminate root cause using robust countermeasures, sustain the corrective actions to eliminate repeat issues
• Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met

Key Attributes:

• Ability to sustain and develop people
• Possess the ability to lead and motivate a team of people to succeed by utilizing appropriate interpersonal styles including leading by example, setting objectives and defining responsibilities to give a clear sense of direction
• Ability to build effective relationships with work colleagues
• Able to achieve results by setting high standards and committing to clear objectives
• Adaptable to change and varying situations
• Ability to show resilience and a flexible approach
• Computer literate & proficient with Microsoft office
• Full understanding of customer expectations and deliverables with an awareness of the impact of failure/cost of poor quality

Other Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills, specifically in people management, relationship management and being self-directed
• Can communicate with all levels of the organization effectively
• Works well under pressure and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Ability to adapt to changes quickly

Education & Experience:

• This position prefers a four-year college degree, or 8-10 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Proven track record within manufacturing management
• Ability to design processes and layouts
• Kaizen/A3 (continuous improvement and problem solving), process improvement and Poka Yoke (error proofing) techniques
• Basic understanding of design and production costs to include waste, downtime, scrap and re-work