Description: Responsible for managing a group of lines or areas inside the operations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise activities of the area in a manner that meets the company's goals for Safety, Quality, Environment and Productivity.
- Supervise compliance of the production schedule as well as compliance with the general requirements of the organization
- Supervise employees
- Participate in the analysis of product rejections
- Manage area KPI and lead improvement team through PDCA
- Assure completion of the production schedule
- Provide support and training to the employees.
- Participate in problem solving teams
- Ensure the quality of the product, by monitoring the compliance of the quality requirements and criteria
- Supervise compliance with the area’s procedures and instructions
- Monitor the reliability of the processes
- Participate in the responses to customer complaints
- Supervise and provide corrective actions for the production performance indicators
- Implement continuous improvement programs in the production area
- Keep the scrap and finished product system updated
- Implement inventory and scrap reduction projects
- Comply with the quality and environmental standards procedures and instructions (those applicable)
- All those activities generated as a result of changes, requirements and/or improvement in the process of the applicable area)
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- College Degreed preferred
- 3 years minimum as supervisor
- Quality and environmental systems
- Emergency programs
- Basic knowledge about Lean Manufacturing and its tools
- Problem solving techniques
- Leadership skills, communication, human relations.
- Internal work regulations
- Knowledge of computer packages (MS OFFICE)
- Basic process tools: PFMA’s and PCP’s
- Availability to work overtime on short notice
- Experience with injection molding/ assembly process a plus