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Sr. Production Supervisor
Rain BirdUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Apr 2025
About the role
Overview
The Production Supervisor is responsible for fostering a performance-driven and continuous-improvement environment for production operations and has accountability for the safety, quality, delivery, and productivity performance of the group under responsibility.
Night shift #4 (Wed-Sat)
Responsibilities
- Supervises manufacturing activities in a high-Speed automated assembly environment. Manages all productivity and quality-related issues within the manufacturing team
- Hires, develops, and trains direct labor personnel
- Monitors production, technical and support personnel
- Ensures that safety regulations, regulatory controls, policies, and procedures are followed
- Initiates and documents Safety Corrective Actions and ensures on-time completion
- Initiates and oversees quality and process improvements
- Leads and carries safety and quality process auditing
- Monitors and reports on shift-related key performance indicators (KPI’s), including scrap monitoring.
- Undertakes special projects as required
- Promotes and uses techniques for continuous improvement such as Six-Sigma and Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing)
- Position requires an individual who is enthusiastic, hardworking and has a “can-do” attitude.
- Requires an individual with flexibility to work and rotate between day shift and night shift based on business needs in a 24/7 operation.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS or BA degree in business or technical discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of supervision experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment
- Strong Lean manufacturing and six sigma toolset a must.
- Ability to lead improvements in quality, productivity, cost and material usage
- Excellent leadership skills – high integrity, results driven, interpersonal skills, ability to champion change and strong manufacturing competencies
- Bilingual – English and Spanish
- History of increasing responsibilities with proven track record of achieving good results
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Post graduate education with MBA degree.
- Prior Plant Management and budget responsibility.
- Six Sigma Certification
- Experience in injection molding
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Rain Bird is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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