2nd Shift Team Lead - Porex Foam

Filtration Group; Saginaw (MI); On-site; USD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated shift supervisor to oversee plant performance, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity. This role involves leading a team, managing attendance, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. You will be responsible for monitoring productivity, quality assurance, and providing effective feedback to your team. If you have a strong background in manufacturing and a passion for leadership, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of manufacturing or military experience required.
• Leadership experience in manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor attendance and approve vacations per employee handbook.
• Ensure safety reporting and manage productivity for the shift.
• Provide performance management and training for shift personnel.

Skills

People Leadership

Safety Management

Productivity Measurement

Quality Assurance

Performance Management

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Overview

The shift supervisor is accountable for all performance measurements of the plant throughout the shift including safety, quality, and productivity. The position includes people leadership responsibilities for shift personnel (bonus measurement, performance management etc.).

Responsibilities

• Monitor attendance. Approve vacations in accordance with the employee handbook.
• Ensure safety near miss reporting is completed by all employees.
• Monitor safety behaviors and provide immediate feedback to the team.
• Measure and manage productivity for shift and employees.
• Prioritize shift activities to achieve the needed ship plan.
• Drive accurate inventory transactions (production, scrap etc).
• Ensure quality product is produced. Verify production quality throughout the shift.
• Provide performance management to shift team. Recognize and award good behaviors. Coach and discipline bad behaviors.
• Monitor work against standard operating procedures and provide immediate feedback to team.
• Fill in for production roles when vacancies occur.
• Provide emergency response leadership (ex: injury, fire, violence, or theft).
• Manage employee training. Ensure all new employees achieve timely certification before producing independently.
• Document daily shift reports for quality and asset utilization performance.
• Provide effective shift hand-off to the incoming shift.
• Perform basic maintenance activities to keep production safe and ongoing.
• Create detailed work requests and call in maintenance trades for emergency work.
• Troubleshoot and resolve enterprise resource planning (ERP) problems, related to raw materials, work-in-progress, or finished product, for quality status, counts, location or allocation.

Qualifications

• 3 years of manufacturing experience or relevant military experience (required)
• Past manufacturing people leadership or relevant military experience (preferred)
• S. Diploma (required)