Production Shift Supervisor

Your Job

Guardian Glass is seeking you to become our next Production Shift Supervisor at our Float Glass Facility in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

As a Production Supervisor, you are responsible for developing your team into a high performing unit while advancing our vision and culture. You will do this by recognizing the unique skillset of your team members and aligning them in a way that creates personal fulfillment and value for the company.

The Production Supervisor is also responsible for supervising and coordinating production efforts that result in sustained improvement in all associated work processes including Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), compliance, reliability, quality, production, and costs.

If you are looking to challenge yourself and your team in a dynamic manufacturing environment, Guardian is the place for you! This role works a rotating shift pattern.

Our Team

You will join a team of shift managers, department managers, supervisors and process engineers that collaborate on a daily basis strategizing our priorities for the day. The Production Supervisors encourage a one team on the field mentality, paying particular attention to their direct reports and general attention to the workforce. This unified but dynamic team encourages the challenge process, open and honest communication and expects leadership support and feedback.

You will be part of the Float Line Team, working closely with the Operations and Engineering teams. Our division is dedicated to maintaining high standards of production efficiency and quality while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

What You Will Do

1. Leading an operational team (8-10 employees) in a safe and efficient manner and to take ownership vision advancement, safety, quality, and productivity.
2. Driving safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively eliminate hazards. Providing safety training to crew members and deliver training materials in a meaningful approach.
3. Facilitating team development and communication, employee skill development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership and holding employees accountable.
4. Monitoring product quality and providing direction to crew members to maximize efficiency.
5. Promoting employee involvement, providing coaching, feedback and direction as required.
6. Assisting with troubleshooting production issues.
7. Completing data entry responsibilities and generating reports in a timely and efficient manner.
8. Conducting annual performance reviews for direct reports and ensuring the application of the individual performance development cycle.
9. Understanding the cost of decisions and impact to departments and other processes.
10. Meeting or exceeding KPI goals by demonstrating success in measuring and improving processes.
11. Coordinating with other departments and managers to work as a team.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

1. Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or a related discipline.
2. Previous experience working in an operations environment.
3. Technical & Mechanical aptitude to learn a manufacturing process. Includes being logically minded and process oriented.
4. Experience in adapting to transformation and bringing change to the people, process, and company that will create the greatest value.
5. Experience in effectively articulating verbal and written messages, information, and ideas to a diverse group of people, leading to shared understanding.

What Will Put You Ahead

1. Demonstrated managerial skills.
2. Experience in leading or participating in continuous improvement projects.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.