Production Supervisor

This position is responsible for improving the Company's profitability by implementing Lean principles and practices to improve the operation's Safety/5S, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC). The Production Supervisor provides all necessary direction to support groups and those within his/her area of responsibility to insure the proper fulfillment of customer orders.

Requirements

• Manages customer orders to insure proper fulfillment
• Insures that all required resources are present to produce the required output
• Communicates progress toward order fulfillment
• Manages for daily improvement
• Establishes a lean vision for his/her processes, sets SQDC improvement goals, and takes the proper action to achieve these goals
• Posts and monitors SQDC measurements to provide visual trend of progress against goals and objectives, and to identify/seek opportunities for improvement
• Eliminates problems by taking immediate stop-gap measures, employing required support groups, recording critical data and driving root-cause elimination
• Insures that all members adhere to standard work and implements improvements to standard operations daily
• Provides strong leadership
• Conducts daily startup meetings to review SQDC performance, establish short and long term performance goals, review initiative status, present company issues, and build a winning team spirit
• Provides continuous feedback to members regarding their personal performance and rewards or disciplines accordingly
• Increases the team's skill depth through use of cross-training matrices, development goal setting, and task rotation
• Interviews, hires and trains employees