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Position Summary

The Production Supervisor may supervise one or more areas of the shop floor to support the manufacturing, loading and shipping of all orders to meet and exceed the customers’ quality and delivery expectations while maintaining established safety and cost standards. The Production Supervisor must understand and support all first shift Assembly & Paint department procedures and ensure all team members follow Standard Operating Procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise shop employees: plan work schedules (overtime, etc.), conduct performance reviews, provide feedback and overall guidance, administer discipline, develop strategies for performance and productivity improvement, and review and maintain timesheets and time off requests.

• Know, understand, implement, and enforce safety procedures and guidelines, including the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

• Consistently demonstrate the importance of safety and ensure assigned personnel have appropriate training, work instruction, and tools to be successful.

• Report safety violations and administer the appropriate discipline.

• Understand and implement quality practices and procedures, including customer-specific requirements.

• Audit inspections and assist the Quality team in identifying and preventing internal and external errors.

• Interview and evaluate prospective employees; plan and coordinate training for new and existing employees for development and cross-training.

• Coordinate with Planning/Scheduling to set daily machine schedules; execute the work schedule with effective utilization of manpower and equipment.

• Troubleshoot workmanship problems and supervise shop floor activities to meet or exceed all quality standards and delivery dates.

• Utilize appropriate manufacturing methodologies to drive continuous improvement.

• Support preventive maintenance schedules with the Maintenance Department.

• Understand and administer employee policies, practices, procedures, and work rules, monitoring individual and department performance.

• Assist in the resolution of internal and external customer problems/complaints.

• Promote high employee morale and maintain high employee retention; demonstrate the importance of teamwork and collaboration.

• Specialized areas (Paint-line & Assembly) may require additional tasks and duties to keep the area highly productive.

• Understand and accurately maintain/utilize Epicor and MES, including report generation, time entry, job completion, issue errors, identifying direct/indirect labor, and monitoring jobs with idle activity.

Skills and Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a steel or manufacturing environment is preferred.

• Two or four-year college degree, or equivalent experience.

• Leadership experience is required; Supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

• ISO 9001:2015 experience, preferred.

• Formal safety training (OSHA 30, NSC, etc.), is preferred.

• Self-motivation, desire to succeed.

• Understanding of manufacturing methodologies, like Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma, preferred.

• Strong interpersonal skills, judgment, and decision making, developing group cooperation and teamwork, coping with difficulties and emergencies, high degree of organization skills.

• Speak conversational English.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift up to 50lbs repetitively throughout the course of a shift.

• Ability to bend, stand, twist, and stoop for prolonged periods of time.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Ability to maintain coordination of hand and finger movements to grasp and manipulate objects with precision.

• Subject to environmental conditions that occur within a fabrication shop condition including exposure to dirt, dust, noise, and vibration from use of equipment and the following:

• Hazards: Variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

• Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin-fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.

• Oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)