Production Supervisor

Your responsibilities

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, including, but not limited to: inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators.

This position is 2nd shift.

• Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.

• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, and fabricators.

• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments and shifts.

• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals across shifts, including overtime plans.

• Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.

• Observe work and monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or processing standards.

• Conduct employee training in equipment operations or work and safety procedures or assign employee training to experienced workers.

• Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.

• Keep records of employees' attendance and hours worked.

• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.

• Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.

• Maintain operations data, such as time, production, and cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.

• Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.

• Confer with management or subordinates to resolve employee training needs, worker problems, complaints, or grievances.

• Set up and adjust machines and equipment.

• Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.

• Recommend or execute personnel actions, such as hiring’s, evaluations, promotions and disciplinary actions.

• Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas.

• Plan and develop new products and production processes.

Your profile

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Delegating Responsibility - Ability to allocate authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people.
• Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.
• Motivation - Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
• Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
• Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
• Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Leadership - Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in industrial lab or manufacturing.

Skills and Abilities:

• Communication Proficiency
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Collaboration Skills

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. 
• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending kneeling, stooping, crawling and climbing all day.
• The employee must frequently lift and move items up to 45 pounds

Work Environment:

• This position will operate in a professional office and application lab environment.
• This role will require the use of standard and technical office programs as well as chemical and other volatile laboratory equipment and products
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to wear P.P.E for exposure to fumes or airborne particles, been exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.
• Minimal travel may be required
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Contact Person

Brett Keller
HR Team
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