Production Group Leader

Job Description

Job Description

Summary:
The main function of a production supervisor is to supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers.

Job Responsibilities:
Recommend measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems.
Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, and maintenance to detect production problems.
Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personal grievances.
Prepare and maintain production reports and personnel records.

Skills:
Verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and problem solving skills.
Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance.
Knowledge of design techniques, tools and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models.

Education/Experience:
Education - Associate's Degree required, Bachelor's Degree nice to have
Years of experience - at least 3-5 years' experience
Experience in people leading 3-5 years
UAW/union experience is a nice to have
Six Sigma or other problem-solving certificates is a nice to have
Faced pace environment/automotive background is nice to have **automotive background is a huge plus**

Must be willing to rotate shifts:
1st shift 6AM - 2:30-3PM
2nd shift: 4PM - 12:30AM
Rotate every 4 months, the shift that they start on would be TBD, but would likely be 1st shift and then rotate to 2nd shift in 4 months