Supervisor II, Production

Primary Objective of Position:  

Responsible for the day-to-day management of people within production, to ensure company's targets and objectives are met to meet customer requirements, ensuring that staff comply with health, safety and standard operating procedures. Strive to continually improve using Lean tools to reduce costs, improve production and quality. Act with minimum supervision.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Lead by example, ensuring a safe and efficient workplace is maintained at all times 
• Ensure that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) are monitored and targets achieved
• Ensure delivery of products to schedule within all relevant quality specifications 
• Communicate with teams by utilizing visual management, delivering shift briefs with focus on quality, cost and delivery, and gathering ideas for improvement
• Drive performance of team members, giving direction and feedback to drive employee development
• Ensure safe working practices are maintained and ‘Standard Operations’ adhered to
• Motivate the team to create a high-performance culture where improvement suggestions are embraced
• Strive to exceed Company targets in productivity, efficiency and quality utilizing lean manufacturing techniques.
• Support the implementation of engineering changes, production trials, model change and pilot builds
• Report plant or machinery breakdowns to maintenance technicians
• Promote Total Productive Maintenance procedures to further improve the availability of the line
• Contribute to the improvement of SOPs by continually looking for solutions that ensure the best productivity results while ensuring compliance with procedures, operating instructions and work instructions
• Support the resolution of Customer concerns, identify and eliminate root cause using robust countermeasures, sustain the corrective actions to eliminate repeat issues
• Ensure all external and internal auditory standards and improvement requirements are met

 Key Attributes:

• Ability to sustain and develop people
• Possess the ability to lead and motivate a team to succeed by utilizing appropriate interpersonal styles including leading by example, setting clear objectives and defining responsibilities that provide a clear sense of direction
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization and build effective relationships with work colleagues
• Able to achieve results by setting high standards 
• Adaptable to change and a variety of situations
• Ability to show resilience and use flexible approaches
• Computer literate & proficient with Microsoft office
• Full understanding of customer expectations and deliverables with an awareness of the impact of failure/cost of poor quality

 Other Requirements:

• Self-directed
• Works well under pressure and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously

 Education & Experience:

• This position prefers a four-year college degree, or 8-10 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Proven track record within manufacturing management
• Ability to design processes and layouts
• Kaizen/A3 (continuous improvement and problem solving), process improvement and Poka Yoke (error proofing) techniques
• Basic understanding of design and production costs to include waste, downtime, scrap and re-work