Production Supervisor

Description

• Maintains area free of harassment or intimidating behavior.
• Organizational Leadership: Provide organizational leadership to foster positive employee relations and meeting the evolving needs of the business.
• The employee frequently is required to walk, use hands to feel or handle, and to reach with hands and arms.
• Implements OC Doors Lean Management Systems
• Enforces safety practices, tolerance to zero attitude, maintain safety engagement, and enforces environmental regulations including 5S.
• Follows the production schedule and ensures level production throughout the area.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and/or stand for eight hours, talk, and hear.
• Confers with plant manager, supply chain, quality, and other supervisors to adjust production schedules to meet customer requirements.
• Participates in Tier meetings with senior leadership using appropriate decision-making tools gaining approval before implementing decisions or changes.
• Makes recommendations to improve production methods, increase equipment efficiency, improve material flow, and decrease waste.
• Facilitates GEMBA walks and makes suggestions on improvements.
• Conducts employee evaluations within the set time frame.
• Monitors inventory levels of finished goods and work in process.
• Works with team lead and trainers to determine training needs of employees.
• Monitors and adjusts job assignments to maximize production efficiency.
• Works with team leads to assign daily work duties to floor personnel.
• The employee must occasionally lift, push and pull up to 50 lb.
• Maintains time and production records in Kronos daily.
• Leads problem solving efforts, analyzes and resolves production issues through teamwork with quality, maintenance, and engineering.

Requirements

• Able to work well under pressure.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Must be able to read, understand and interpret blueprints.
• Must have a firmly demonstrated commitment to safety, with strong leadership, supervisory and people skills.
• The employee is required to perform highly repetitive motions.
• Leadership experience of projects varying in size and scope preferred.
• Position is hands on requires Manufacturing floor mobility.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and able to diagnose crisis right away.
• Fluent in English
• Ability to lead and motivate co-workers.
• Must possess good communication skills - written and oral, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to effectively interface with others and the ability to train others.
• Minimum of 3 years’ leadership experience in a team-based Lean Manufacturing environment.
• The employee must have the ability to read and write.
• Detail orientated mindset required for investigation and analysis of equipment issues.
• Computer literacy with general skills in data entry and spreadsheets (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Previous exposure to Kronos as Time Management tool is an asset.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in a related field is preferred or the combination of High School degree with 5-10 years’ progressive experience in a manufacturing environment and a supervisory role.
• Self-motivated and results driven approach.
• Hands-on experience implementing Lean Manufacturing process systems.
• Work well with team members to maximize productivity and efficiency.
• Bilingual is a plus
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance