Senior Manufacturing Supervisor*

Job Description:

Job Title
Senior Manufacturing Supervisor

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Manufacturing Senior Supervisor, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Provide direct supervision and coaching for production supervisors and other operational staff.  Accountable for the activities and results of their direct reports.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvements and/or solutions to work processes and tools in support of business and strategic plans.
• Understand a Zero Harm culture and lead everything through this lens.
• Develop and be accountable for metrics which monitor plant performance, such as safety, productivity, yield, customer complaints, operational costs, etc.
• Provide manufacturing support to meet division NPI program objectives and timelines.
• Collaborate with extended value stream partners to identify, prioritize and resource programs in alignment with business strategy.  Proactively communicate project direction and status to appropriate personnel.
• Implement and optimize processes to improve results.  Champion continuous improvement projects and coach employees on tool use to improve safety, quality, service and cost.
• Determine priorities, timelines, resource assignments.  Provide employee performance feedback and reviews on a regular basis.
• Actively participate in relevant corporate programs/initiatives, comply with professional and quality standards, comply with corporate policies and procedures and act in a professional manner consistent with 3M’s values and ethical standards.
• Willingness to be on-call as many operations run 24 hours a day

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in science or engineering (completed and verified prior to start)
• Eight (8) years of manufacturing or engineering experience in a private, public, government, or military environment
• Two (2) years combined supervisory and/or managerial experience in a private, public, government, or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Strong communication skills to lead direct reports as well as manage customer interactions
• Excellent team building and interpersonal skills
• Project leadership experience and demonstrated ability to develop and drive time lines
• Continuous improvement experience
• Ability to work well cross functionally

Work location: Clarkston, GA

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

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