Job Title:  Production Supervisor

Job Summary: 

Responsible for assigned area aspects of the production floor, including personnel, machines, facility, equipment, and all necessary support systems for manufacturing processes.

Duties and Responsibilties: 

•    Coordinates the flow of work through departments and ensures departments have sufficient levels of inventory to meet demand and are staffed appropriately.
•    Plan and direct production activities and establish production goals and priorities to effectively execute the production schedule, manage internal cost factors, meet quality requirements, and achieve timely service to customers.
•    Prepare production status reports: sales dollars, schedule hours, delivery performance, scrap calculations, etc.
•    Responsible for the direct management of the production floor, taking into account internal and external supplier relationships, production schedules, quality standards, continuous improvement, and cost standards. 
•    Oversees and directs the activities of the production supervisors, cell leaders, and operators, on all shifts of production.
•    Reviews, provides guidance for changes, approves and executes the production schedule, ensuring the schedule is both achievable and well-executed. 
•    Collaborate with purchasing, maintenance, engineering, scheduling, and quality control to ensure effective production performance, communicating as required to generate timely and adequate support. 
•    Advise management of changes, risks and opportunities related to production resources, including manpower requirements.
•    Develops and effectively executes departmental goals, objectives, and projects.
•    Performs multiple daily walk-through reviews of all production areas, providing coaching and direction to staff as required to ensure high performance. 
•    Leads the lean culture of the production floor, including Gemba, 5S, and kaizen practices, ensuring adequate training and expectations of the organization. 
•    Sets, measures, and accomplishes departmental continuous improvement goals, including cost, quality, safety, schedule attainment, OEE, individual development and performance, housekeeping, and preventative maintenance programs.
•    Develops cell leaders and shift supervisors in counseling production workers on personnel problems and resolution of employee concerns.
•    Working in concert with site and divisional Human Resources, plans staffing levels required to meet production requirements; requisitions new and replacement personnel, approves new hires, and manages staff performance (including improvement plans and dismissals when appropriate). 
•    Assists in development of all new training and development programs to assure employee and product quality.
•    Works in coordination with New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineers and other staff regarding product development and process improvements, ensuring the timely and quality execution of NPI requirements.

Education: 

Bachelors Degree

Experience: 

0-3 years Production planning/schedulimg experience

3-6 years Employee management/supervisory role