Injection Molding Shift Supervisor

Ambrit Engineering; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental Insurance

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development Plan

Job summary

Ambrit Engineering Corporation is seeking a skilled Shift Supervisor for our plastic injection molding operations. You will supervise and coordinate daily activities of production workers, ensure safety, and maintain production schedules across medical, aerospace, automotive, electronics, and consumer products.

The ideal candidate has proven experience supervising a plastic injection molding team, strong troubleshooting skills, and a solid understanding of equipment, resins and quality plans.

Qualifications

• Must have experience supervising production team leaders, cell leaders, operators and material personnel.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and knowledge of molding equipment and resins.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities to coordinate shift operations.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, develop, train and coach production team members to meet company objectives.
• Review master schedule to plan daily production and ensure quality requirements are met.
• Meet or exceed productivity guidelines for your shift and manage scrap rates.
• Ensure all work centers run with approved cycle sheets and scheduled work orders.
• Direct and follow up with production teams to maintain safety, quality, and housekeeping standards.
• Verify machines operate according to standard cycles and input downtime and scrap codes.
• Inspect products for conformance to specifications and adjust machines as needed.
• Maintain good employee relations and administer timely performance evaluations.

Skills

Shift supervisor experience

Tools

Injection Molding Machines

Job description

Must have experience as shift supervisor in a plastic injection moulding facility

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Development Plan

Shift

• 3:45pm to 12:15am
• 8 hour shift

Summary/Objective

Shift Supervisor is responsible to supervise and coordinate daily activities of production workers engaged in operating plastic molding equipment that produce plastic molded parts such as medical, aerospace, automotive, electronics and consumer products by performing the following duties. This position requires interaction with the other Shift Supervisors and leads to coordinate shift operations, excellent troubleshooting skills, a good memory, a thorough knowledge of the various equipment, resins and their characteristics. Provides direction for all employees and shift activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Is responsible to supervise, develop, train and coach production team leaders, cell leaders, operators and material personnel within the department, ensuring that they contribute to the company objectives.
• Reviews master schedule in order to plan, direct daily production, secondary ops or rework activities and ensure production and quality requirements are achieved.
• Responsible for meeting or exceeding of productivity guidelines on your shift (scrap, utilization, meeting standards).
• Ensure all work centers are running with approved cycle sheets and correct scheduled work orders.
• Assign, direct, and follow up with Production team to establish and maintain safety procedures, production, quality control standards, daily priorities, good housekeeping practices, and clean working environment.
• Verify machines are operating according to standard cycles, allowable scrap, work instructions and quality plan; ensure downtime codes and scrap codes are entered on time into IQMS.
• Inspect products to verify conformance to specifications and direct support teams with adjustment of machines.
• Establish and maintain good employee relations and adherence to judicious disciplinary measures when required.
• Responsible for reviewing and/or administering employee performance evaluations and developmental actions.
• Is responsible for consistent and fair application of company policies and procedures.
• Support the implementation, achievement, and maintenance of the Quality and Environmental Policies and Procedures.
• Coordinate and direct technicians, material handlers, and leads priorities with troubleshooting and problem solving to support production schedule, and follow established action plans for processes out of range.
• Coordinate and hold team meetings covering safety, quality, and reliability issues.
• Support quality control for production start-up, including limit sample approval, machine start-up, shift supervisor’s notice of quality defect, and any quality control issues that arise during the shift.
• Coordinate tooling and equipment usage, repair and maintenance to meet production schedule. Ensure work orders for maintenance or tooling issues are performed and maintained.
• Assigns and coordinate daily preventive mold cleaning for all production presses per procedure and schedule.
• Ensure established purge procedure is maintained and line clearance is performed per work instructions.
• Train production personnel to follow and sustain 5s practices, quality standards, work instructions, accurate floor dispositions, SOP’s and MRB procedures, data collection and reporting, and all other company procedures.
• Record any process changes to log when deviating from standard process and follow escalation procedure.
• Communicate shift to shift information such as, production status, quality issues and given instructions.
• Be an experienced recruiter of and mentor to promotable employees. Forward all pertinent employee information and documentation to Production Manager and/or H.R. department.
• Involve team leaders, cell leaders, operators, and materials personnel in a team approach to continuous improvement, 5s practices, one-piece flow, and problem solving using root-cause analysis methods.
• Provide leadership, communication and motivation to team members, promote a work environment based on teamwork, trust, confidence and accountability. Be enthusiastic and have a can-do attitude.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports, correspondence and procedures. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups or managers clients, customers or employees of organization.

Competencies

• Technical Capacity
• Organizational Skills
• Problem Solving/Analytical
• Decision Making Skills
• Use of Metrology Instruments
• Mathematic Ability
• Time Management
• Initiative

You Should Be Proficient In

• Injection Molding Experience

Machines & Technologies You'll Use

• Injection Molding Machine (Milacron, Toshiba, Arburg, Husky)