Production Supervisor
Job description
JOB RESPONSIBILITY
- Responsible for strategizing, planning, and execution of daily manufacturing activities to meet production goals.
- Lead a team of technicians and production operators to meet daily production output, quality performance, productivity and cost.
- Resolve and handle line related issues and understand equipment capacities or constraints to identify, handle and resolve bottleneck situations.
- Drive continuous improvement programs for operational excellence.
- Coordinate and provide support for new product introduction activities.
- Collaborate with management, internal stakeholders and contract manufacturers regarding project status, progress and issue resolution.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety policies and site safety through hazard identification and prevention.
- Undertake any other duties as assigned by superiors from time to time.
JOB REQUIREMENT
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- At least 5 years’ relevant experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge in manufacturing management principles and concepts, as well as quality systems.
- Demonstrated background in Lean Manufacturing and driving continuous improvement projects.
- Experience in writing Standard Operating Procedures for the factories and various production performance reports.
- Knowledge of safety requirements.
- Good leadership and people management skills.
- Self-motivated and able to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Experience working with US-based teams or stakeholders will be an added advantage.
This position is a permanent day supervisory role with 5 working days per week.