Supervisor, Production Line - 1st Shift

Job-ID: 17309; Location(s): Mantua OH 

 

Job Description Summary

The Supervisor, Production Line is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the work of all production employees on assigned production line; achieving employee retention, quality and production goals through strong leadership, supervision of employees/processes, efficient scheduling and continuous improvement.

 

What You'll Do:

Leadership

• Continually and proactively demonstrates strong leadership through training, motivating and developing other team members.
• Develop, implement and maintain training procedures.
• Responsible for the overall production performance of specific production line(s).

Supervision

• Ensures employee retention goals are met through recruiting, selection, orientation, training, communicating expectations, developing growth opportunities and providing consistent feedback to employees.
• Completes employee performance reviews and develops action plans for any areas of improvement.
• Adopts and enforces company policies and procedures regarding health and safety regulations.

Production

• Ensures production goals are met through scheduling, prioritization, trouble shooting and production control.
• Work with Line Manager, other supervisors and support departments to establish production priorities and a production plan.
• Balance the production schedule with available resources to ensure timely production and the achievement of on-time production goals.
• Ensures efficient production to help ensure the achievement of production scrap and OEE goals.
• Possesses a high level of knowledge about all processes used throughout the department. This includes material handling, system transactions, quality testing and reporting, emergency procedures, etc.
• Inspects the overall quality of produced products to ensure they are made according to specifications; makes adjustments as necessary and rejects products outside of specifications.
• Assists in R&D trials.

Continuous Improvement

• Formally communicates production information to Management on a daily basis via production boards.

Leadership

• Continually and proactively demonstrates strong leadership through training, motivating and developing other team members.
• Develop, implement and maintain training procedures.
• Responsible for the overall production performance of specific production line(s).

Supervision

• Ensures employee retention goals are met through recruiting, selection, orientation, training, communicating expectations, developing growth opportunities and providing consistent feedback to employees.
• Completes employee performance reviews and develops action plans for any areas of improvement.
• Adopts and enforces company policies and procedures regarding health and safety regulations.

Production

• Ensures production goals are met through scheduling, prioritization, trouble shooting and production control.
• Work with Line Manager, other supervisors and support departments to establish production priorities and a production plan.
• Balance the production schedule with available resources to ensure timely production and the achievement of on-time production goals.
• Ensures efficient production to help ensure the achievement of production scrap and OEE goals.
• Possesses a high level of knowledge about all processes used throughout the department. This includes material handling, system transactions, quality testing and reporting, emergency procedures, etc.
• Inspects the overall quality of produced products to ensure they are made according to specifications; makes adjustments as necessary and rejects products outside of specifications.
• Assists in R&D trials.

Continuous Improvement

• Formally communicates production information to Management on a daily basis via production boards.
• Drives improvements in production through Viega’s continuous improvement process.
• Suggests equipment and tooling improvements based on pro