Production Supervisor

About This Role

This role directs unit operations to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of resources in achieving performance goals. It involves leading the manufacturing of building products while maintaining quality, safety, and environmental responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead the manufacturing of building products to meet production demands, while ensuring quality, safety, and environmental responsibility
• Develop and implement headcount/staffing guidelines while controlling manpower costs
• Interview, hire, supervise, evaluate, and replace employees as required to ensure performance objectives are met/exceeded
• Perform all time approval functions and coordinate times off coverage
• Maintain a high degree of leadership and supervisory skills including developing and training employees to assume positions of increasing responsibilities; evaluating employees and providing feedback to perform better; conducting daily shift meetings for Safety and Production
• Ensure all incidents including environmental and near misses are properly reported, investigated and documented with preventive/corrective actions and employee statements
• Drive continuous improvement plans which lead to cost reductions including 5S
• Interact with and share service findings to Quality team for improvements
• Review and recommend any process improvements to include but not limited to employee development, production methods, equipment, quality, safety, service and overall performance of the shift
• Deliver training to shift employee in various areas including but not limited to setup/operation, testing, troubleshooting, machine metrics reporting and safety procedures
• Identify potential career paths for employees and work with the employee to develop their skills and knowledge to progress within the company. Provide documentation and follow up to training and job responsibilities
• Assign and manage employee schedules
• Complete paperwork relative to line operation
• Support Preventive Maintenance and downtime events as needed
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of all safety polices and address all unsafe acts and conditions
• Administer policies and local plant practices in a fair and consistent manner
• Provide coaching/counseling to employees and progressive discipline when needed, based upon company guidelines
• Communicate and collaborate daily with other production departments
• Supervise department associates
• Support employee training
• Assign and direct work
• Support the interview and hiring process for the Business Unit
• Discipline employees and support supervisors in the coaching and development of their direct reports