Assembly Supervisor

General Role Description

Supervise assembly operations to ensure production goals are met while maintaining quality and safety standards

Role Accountabilities

- Implement, manage, and monitor assembly processes to maintain efficient and reliable production operations

- Plan work schedules and manage employee hours, reallocating staff as needed to sustain production line continuity

- Identify factors that may impact on-time productivity and notify the manager promptly to mitigate delays

- Interview and evaluate candidates to select qualified personnel for assembly positions

- Assess skill levels and coordinate training to maintain a capable and effective assembly team

- Verify tools and equipment calibration requirements are met according to established schedules

- Investigate part discrepancies and coordinate resolution to prevent production interruptions

- Provide temporary coverage for absent team members to maintain production continuity

- Investigate and address quality non-conformances, notifying quality control and/or quality assurance

- Issue work orders, schematics, specifications, and instructions to team leads

- Troubleshoot assembly issues and resolve, escalating to manager as necessary

- Identify and report production constraints related to equipment, staffing, or capacity to the manager

- Conduct random inspections of assembly lines to verify adherence to established processes and procedures

- Monitor work areas for unsafe practices, equipment issues, and PPE compliance and address concerns promptly

- Verify daily completion of 6S standards to maintain organized and efficient work areas

General Employee Accountabilities

- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

- Give manager best advice

- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

- Recommend viable improvements proactively

- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Manager Accountabilities

- Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

- Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

- Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

- Own the output of the team

- Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

- Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

- Two-way managerial team working

- Fair and just treatment of direct reports

- Context setting

- Planning

- Task assignment

- Ongoing performance management

- Coaching

- Selection and orientation

- De-selection and dismissal

Manager-Once-Removed Accountabilities

- Ensure effective leadership and fair and just treatment for their direct reports once removed

- Ensure talent pool development at the direct report once removed level

Requirements

• - High school diploma or equivalent
• - 2 years’ experience in a supervisory or lead role
• - Demonstrated working knowledge of manufacturing operations and production processes
• - Proficiency using hand tools and power tools
• - Demonstrated success leading teams to accomplish business goals
• - Strong problem-solving skills
• - Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• - Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• - Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• - Proficiency working with an ERP system
• - Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and Outlook
• - Ability to lift, push, and pull up to 40 lbs.
• - Availability to travel domestically and internationally, up to 5%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

- Associate’s degree in manufacturing, industrial technology, or a related field

- 4 years' experience in a supervisory or lead role

- 2 years' power electronics manufacturing experience

- Working knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement practices

- Proficiency working with an ERP system

- Demonstrated ability to perform quality checks and inspections in a production environment

- Demonstrated experience working in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese

- Proficiency working with Oracle

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website : To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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