Production Supervisor - Bernard Welding

Company Description

Comprised of a market-leading portfolio of best-in-class brands, the businesses of ITW Welding work together to provide premium performance delivered through a breadth of solutions encompassing welding, cutting, consumables, and accessories.  ITW Welding North America represents Miller Electric Welding Equipment, Safety & Accessories, Hobart Filler Metals, and Bernard / Tregaskiss MIG Guns.

Miller Electric Mfg. LLC, is headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, and wholly owned by Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW). The company maintains its industry leadership by setting the standard for reliability, quality and responsiveness. Our tagline, “The Power of Blue®,” is inspired by the blue color of Miller equipment.

The company began with an innovation that responded to customer needs, growing from a one-man operation in 1929, to the world’s largest manufacturer of arc welding products. Miller keeps the tradition alive by focusing on its top priority: people.

Job Description

Reporting to the Production Manager, the Production Supervisor will promote an engaged and safe work environment.  This leader must be a strong business-minded leader capable of driving results, reduce cost, obtain on-time delivery, develop employees, and be a positive culture steward.  Responsible for establishing goals including safety, quality, and performance measures. This position will supervise the Production team. This leader will apply the ITW Principles to strategizing new ideas to move the business to a higher level.

This position is located in Beecher, IL.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop work teams to have positive and proactive attitudes, personal accountability, and superior manufacturing quality as well as encouraging ownership of operations, products and processes.
• Through employee involvement, the Production Supervisor will lead safety, cost, quality, delivery, and productivity initiatives as well as continue to encourage empowerment and to drive ITW principles as well as 80/20 efforts.
• Build employee relationships through daily, open, and direct communication while empowering teams to achieve manufacturing goals.
• Be visible and approachable, creating an environment of trust and followership.
• Promote an engaged and safe workplace environment and foster a safety-first mindset where employees have accountability for self and others.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering to maintain and improve the manufacturing environment to harmoniously respond to changing customer needs and demands through facilitating area layout, processing plans and selecting equipment to simplify and focus manufacturing processes.
• Drive customer service within all areas of the department.
• Demonstrate and encourage effective communications to personnel at all levels and training employees/team members to resolve conflict in a fair, consistent, and empowered manner within a team environment.
• Develop & support direct reports and assess team members’ performance and goals regularly, encouraging the achievement of effective goals.
• Assist/support teams in the utilization of all available resources.
• Participate in committees/teams as required.
• Provide reports on critical information.
• Understand how our factory production system develops and fulfills products.
• Builds a network of inter-company peers and subject matter experts for consultation on best practices for managing people and for system/process efficiency.
• Will work closely with support staff and Human Resources.

Qualifications

Qualifying Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management) required.
• 2 years of leading a team in a manufacturing environment within a facility employing 50+ production employees; focusing on safety, quality, and production
• Demonstrated understanding of manufacturing cost-drivers
• Skilled at performance management; providing formal and informal feedback to employees
• Possess the track record of a proven leader and team player, demonstrates positive attitude, takes personal accountability, coaches, listens, approachable, and resolves issues/conflicts in timely manner.
• Exhibit encouragement of diverse ideas, focus on coaching/developing strengths of team members and facilitate effective communication
• Be customer-focused with management and support staff; understand how the business functions link together to support the customer (i.e. engineering, materials, and sales)
• Strong leadership and teaming capabilities with the ability to operate independently, affect change across functions, and have a track record of delivering results.
• Ability to manage