Lead Lean Manufacturing Supervisor — Hands-On Coach

Flex-N-Gate; Royal Oak (MI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex-N-Gate in Royal Oak, Michigan is seeking an Manufacturing Supervisor to oversee daily production, ensuring safety, quality and on-time delivery. You will lead shop-floor teams, allocate tasks, and provide hands-on guidance to meet production goals in a high-standard facility.

The role focuses on driving continuous improvement, coaching staff, and coordinating with Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Planning and Quality to optimize output and morale.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years’ related work experience.
• Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety Act, and Labour Laws.
• Strong communication, presentation, organizational, problem solving, teamwork interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Proficient computer skills.
• Effective use of technology, instruments, tools and information systems.
• Ability to seek a team approach.
• Ability to give guidance and direction as required.
• Ability to set direction, make decisions and oversee the line with little to no direct supervision.

Responsibilities

• All work must be performed in a safe, efficient manner in compliance with Company Policy, Local, Provincial and/or Federal rules and regulations and if applicable Collective Agreement.
• Communicates, trains, guides and coaches employees to achieve operational initiatives that optimize team efforts in the manufacturing of high quality products.
• Evaluates interpersonal skills, provides feedback and recommends as well as methods to improve interpersonal communications.
• Schedules and assigns personnel to work according to the demand of the manufacturing schedules.
• Continually assesses the limitations of equipment capacity and materials supply to directly make adjustments to personal for optimization of manufacturing output.
• Assesses each employee’s abilities and skills to match with capabilities required for each area of the manufacturing floor.
• Continuously monitors and tracks output, manufacturing processes, labour efficiencies, direct operating expenses and quality indicators for assigned cost centers.
• Measures performance and quality.
• Drives positive results in operational Key Process Indicators.
• Establishes and builds working relationships with other departmental personnel, such as Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Planning and Quality to meet production schedules.
• Meets regularly on a formal basis with Management Team to review production results and improvement priorities.
• Performs other related tasks as assigned.

Skills

Time Management

Creative thinking

Coaching & Leadership

Lean Manufacturing

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Communication

Development

Teamwork

Decision Making

Job description

Flex-N-Gate in Royal Oak, Michigan is seeking an Manufacturing Supervisor to oversee daily production, ensuring safety, quality and on-time delivery. You will lead shop-floor teams, allocate tasks, and provide hands-on guidance to meet production goals in a high-standard facility.

The role focuses on driving continuous improvement, coaching staff, and coordinating with Maintenance, Engineering, Finance, Planning and Quality to optimize output and morale.