Job Description

The Production Supervisor is accountable to guarantee manufacturing remains a smooth and efficient process by monitoring employees, organizing workflows, and ensuring both quality and production targets are consistently met. While optimizing daily activities and technology you will provide direct technical support and leadership to employees. Demonstrating strong reasoning and a common-sense, hands-on approach you will participate in identifying and implementing continuous process improvements and in resolving complex process issues. Must have excellent verbal skills, written and interpersonal communication abilities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversee the training and management of production employees in a manner that reflects company values and culture as well as a passion for building our business and meeting or exceeding customers' expectations.
• Serve as a role model in demonstrating constant attention to quality, safe practices and a healthy environment.
• Communicate and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly quality and production goals.
• Evaluate present practices and their underlying logic to determine how to enhance safety and improve quality, productivity and customer satisfaction.
• Oversee and coach employees, providing ongoing feedback, preparing and delivering annual performance evaluations and tracking employee vacation and hours worked.
• Take lead in training programs to add to operator skills, improve communication and add to safe practices throughout the operation.
• Ensure all Standard Operating Procedures are accurate and followed.
• Use ERP system and other technology to prepare and submit reports for planning, monitoring of performance and to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Liaise with Plant Engineering to ensure appropriate maintenance of facilities and equipment.
• Ensure on shift quality issues are well documented, assist in their investigation and implement corrective actions.
• Enforce safety guidelines and company standards.

Basic Hiring Criteria:

• Minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Minimum 1-3 yrs. Supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment is required.
• 5 years in manufacturing environment
• Must have experience and strong aptitude working in an ERP or other related system.
• Proven ability to motivate others, supervise, train, and manage employees and the production process.
• Excellent planning, problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong multitasking/time management skills. Comfortable working on several tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to identify problems and offer real-world resolutions within constrained timelines.
• Strong computer literacy.
• Knowledge of tools such as Lean, Six Sigma, TQM and other quality management practices would be an asset.

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