The Operations Supervisor carries out production functions while establishing and maintaining a culture that embraces continuous improvement, cycle time and waste reduction, lean manufacturing techniques, quality, safety, and employee involvement. The supervisor provides coaching and training to their team regarding quality, environmental, and safety policies, procedures, and work instructions. This includes identifying the training needs of their team and developing the training methods, materials, and schedules; and report training, and team member qualifications as required. In addition, this role is responsible for identifying and meeting production requirements, developing and implementing daily production schedules based on customer orders, and maintaining a culture of quality and safety.
*1st shift hours: 7am to 3pm, Monday through Friday
Job Responsibilities:
- Meet established requirements for production, i.e., making the product to customer specifications, and meeting scheduled shipping dates.
- Meet established quality goals and standards.
- Always ensure all personnel practice safe work habits.
- Maintain 5S standards in area of direct responsibility.
- Provide leadership and direction to team.
- Work with the management team on customer complaints, quality issues, non-conformance issues, process control, continuous improvement, Kaizen activities, and all policies and requirements of the governing version of current ISO standards.
- Oversee the flow of product through area of responsibility.
- Embrace lean manufacturing techniques and work closely to implement changes timely.
- Supervisory responsibility includes management of employee performance, hiring participation, time and attendance administration, discipline, development and resource planning.
- Develop, analyze, and present monthly reports, including but not limited to forecasts, productivity, and safety.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of manufacturing and/or supervisory experience.
- Associate degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- Machining (including CNC) experience and knowledge preferred.
- Basic Microsoft Office utilization skills, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Basic knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Assembly principles.
- Working knowledge of root cause analysis tools
- Demonstrated effective communication skills.
- Demonstrated leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with team members.
- Hydraulic experience is a plus but not necessary.
- Understanding “Value Stream” methodology to improve all processes.