Manufacturing Supervisor

Production Supervisor

The Production Supervisor will direct and lead assembly operations, and schedule and coordinate both assembly and injection molding.

Key Accountabilities:

• OEE
• 5S and Safety (6S)
• Direct labor efficiencies
• Inventory accuracy
• Worker compliance

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Oversees material handling area including accumulation of scrap, regrinding, and resin storage.
• Conducts production meeting with all shift lead process technicians.
• Coordinates and schedules all assembly and injection molding operations using the shift schedule.
• Oversees manufacturing inventory to include cardboard, resin, regrind, pallets, components, WIP, and shipping supplies.
• Conducts inventory and cycle counts ensuring materials are available based on production schedule.
• Communicates material requirements with purchasing manager.
• Establishes assembly production goals and ensures BOM cycle times are met.
• Ensures that assembly production meets customer, quality, and BOM requirements.
• Accurately records team members in ADP, assembly, or injection. Ensures team member time reports are accurate.
• Authorizes full production once setup is complete and first piece approvals are validated.
• Manages IQMS end of shift reporting, cycle counts, scrap data entry, and resolving disposition errors.
• Enforces worker compliance with all work instructions, workorders, TWI's, quality inspections, procedures, employee handbook, process discipline, and time and attendance policy.
• Completes reporting requirements including equipment repair, damage, accident, injury, and production.
• Complies with three-point control, reporting changes, abnormal conditions, and worker compliance.
• Ensures team members are safe, adhere to PPE requirements, follow safety policies, complete assigned tasks in a safe manner.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned by manager.
• Communicates regularly with Director of Operations regarding problems or issues impacting production.
• Develops workflow policies and procedures that improve efficiency without compromising safety or quality.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Bilingual preferred.
• Basic skills with computers including Microsoft Outlook, word, and Teams.
• Ability to complete assigned tasks with little or no guidance.
• Provide shift personnel with a safe and friendly work environment.
• Adhere to Starplast guiding principles including, positive can-do attitude, teamwork, coachability, respect, recognition, and accountability.
• Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Thorough understanding of or the ability to quickly learn production operations and machinery.
• Excellent supervisory and leadership skills.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma preferred.
• Prior experience with production as a lead or supervisor.
• Four years' experience in a manufacturing environment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

EEO Statement

Starplast USA, LLC prohibits discrimination based on the following protected categories: race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy), marital status, civil status, domestic partnership status, familial status, religion, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or disability.