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Production Supervisor

Merck Group
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Oct 2024

About the role

 

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics.

 

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

 

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
 

Your Role:

The Manufacturing Supervisor directs all plant production and stockroom activities on a specific shift and promotes a “Safety First” environment. The Supervisor maintains safe working conditions throughout the plant by taking corrective action on unsafe conditions or acts and leads by example. The Manufacturing Supervisor meets production schedules and standards in accordance with applicable customer requirements and maintains optimum production at the least possible cost. Specific Responsibilities Include:

 

  • Coordinates training and supervision of unionized hourly employee activities; administers plant rules and procedures; recommends employees and candidates for hire, promotion, demotion, transfer, disciplinary action and/or termination
  • Effectively manages the work schedule for the plant to prevent idle time, and provide for the optimal use of personnel, machinery, and material. This includes the proper use of any established work standards
  • Strives for continuous improvement in quality performance through proper training, good communication, effective leadership / supervision, and follow-up with all members of shift
  • Responsible for ensuring incident reports and associated corrective actions are completed in an accurate and timely manner
  • Effectively handles employee complaints, suggestions, questions, in accordance with the company guidelines and bargaining agreement
  • Responsible for reporting and controlling all safety, quality, and efficiency performance daily through written or verbal communication in the form of shift notes/reports
  • Assists in the review of labor and manufacturing costs as they relate to production
  • Analyze and recommends methods for reducing these costs
  • Coordinates the implementation of any approved process or procedure changes and follow up with production personnel
  • Perform material movements and other actions in ERP System
  • Collaborate with Engineering/Design to address production order issues as well as Quality to address non-conformances and corrective and preventative actions

 

Who You Are

 

Minimum Qualifications:

 

  • Associate Degree in a Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, or other STEM discipline

     OR

  • High School Diplomas or GED
  • 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing rol

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Company

Merck Group

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