Production Supervisor

Job Description

Job Description

**Position Summary

**The production supervisor will train, motivate, and drive continuous improvement of manufacturing operations to achieve performance goals in the areas of Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe and orderly workspace. Ensure any safety issues are addressed in a timely fashion with maintenance and actively champion safety programs.

• Demonstrate the ability to lead and develop employees in a unionized manufacturing environment, applying the Collective Bargaining Agreement consistently, fostering positive labor relations, and ensuring compliance with company policies and workplace standards.

• Work with Operations, Purchasing, and Quality to achieve organizational goals.

• Manage hourly team, maximizing output and minimizing waste.

• Maintain departmental day-to-day production activities, monitor and prioritize workflow and schedules.

• Conduct daily management of work area.

• Give technical direction, and/or engage proper help as required.

• Maintain a training log and improve training for each employee in the department, ensure that teams are cross trained.

• Actively participate in daily production team meeting.

• Work with maintenance to ensure machinery is operating efficiently and is safe. Work with team to suggest and implement process improvements.

• Assist in training and reviewing performance of staff. Ensure accountability and compliance to standards.

• Track and report on shift performance, to include corrective actions.

• Audit and maintain 5S standards within assigned work areas, holding team members accountable for workplace organization and cleanliness

• Engage with HBD Business System and implement and uphold standards.

• Able to work second or third shift, and overtime as needed.

• - 2nd

shift hours are 4:00 PM – Midnight - 3rd

shift hours are Midnight – 8:00 AM

Experience and Education Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or similar discipline OR

• Associates degree with 2 years supervisory experience OR

• 5 years supervisory experience or equivalent

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams) and experienced in the use of timekeeping, ERP, and computerized maintenance work order systems.

** Physical Demands**

• The ability to use hand tools on a regular basis
• The ability to climb up onto and down from equipment on a regular basis
• The ability to work in a non-temperature-controlled environment
• The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly on a regular basis
• The ability to stand continuously on a regular basis
• The ability to exert medium force occasionally up to 50 lbs., and/or up to 20 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force constantly to move objects
• The ability to work flexible and long hours