About This Role
This role involves overseeing manufacturing operations to ensure safe, efficient, and timely production. The supervisor is responsible for production schedules, daily work assignments, and providing hands-on support to their team. This individual will drive product and process safety, quality, delivery, and morale, while also focusing on continuous improvement and the training and development of direct reports.
Responsibilities
- Perform all work in a safe, efficient manner in compliance with Company Policy, Local, Provincial, and/or Federal rules and regulations and if applicable Collective Agreement
- Communicate, train, guide, and coach employees to achieve operational initiatives that optimize team efforts in the manufacturing of high-quality products
- Evaluate interpersonal skills, provide feedback, and recommend methods to improve interpersonal communications
- Schedule and assign personnel to work according to the demand of the manufacturing schedules
- Continually assess the limitations of equipment capacity and materials supply to directly make adjustments to personnel for optimization of manufacturing output
- Assess each employee’s abilities and skills to match with capabilities required for each area of the manufacturing floor
- Continuously monitor and track output, manufacturing processes, labor efficiencies, direct operating expenses, and quality indicators for assigned cost centers
- Measure performance and quality
- Drive positive results in operational Key Process Indicators
- Establish and build working relationships with other departmental personnel, such as Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Planning, and Quality to meet production schedules
- Meet regularly on a formal basis with Management Team to review production results and improvement priorities
- Perform other related tasks as assigned
Requirements
- 1-3 years’ related work experience
- Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety Act, and Labor Laws
- Conflict Resolution Management and Time Management skills
- Strong communication, presentation, organizational, problem-solving, teamwork, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- Proficient computer skills
- Effective use of technology, instruments, tools, and information systems
- Ability to seek a team approach
- Ability to give guidance and direction as required
- Ability to set direction, make decisions, and oversee the line with little to no direct supervision
- Solid computer proficiency and knowledge of Microsoft Office software suite
- Availability to support/operate on off shifts as required
- Ability to deliver business results both independently and through others
