Lean Manufacturing Supervisor — People Leader

Forte Opening Solutions

Marshfield (WI)

On-site

USD 55,000 - 85,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Forte Opening Solutions in Marshfield, WI is seeking a Manufacturing Supervisor to lead production teams, uphold lean processes, and drive daily performance with a focus on safety and quality. You will coach and develop employees, manage staffing against the production schedule, review metrics, and implement countermeasures to improve scrap and efficiency.

Candidate should have strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills, with experience supervising manufacturing operations and

Qualifications

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

Create a positive environment of engaged employees.
Provide leadership, ensuring metrics are reviewed; metric misses are addressed with countermeasures, root cause identification, corrective actions, with assigned responsibility and target completion dates and ensure any support required is identified and verified.
Maintain the integrity of Tier Board data and information.
Perform regular lean process audits to verify integrity of lean standards.
Provide training, demonstration and coaching to assigned process/team on lean tools and methodology.
Work with leadership team and employees to assess employee talent and developmental needs.
Provide regular communication, feedback, coaching and ongoing support to employees.
Ensure that an effective communication system is in place through all levels of the process.
Ensure that roles and expectations are clearly communicated throughout the process team.
Work with team leads to direct production activities in accordance with Production Schedule and established priorities, ensuring maximum utilization of assigned resources, machines, personnel, and materials.
Evaluate and suggest improvements to functional leadership on production methods to improve productivity and improve scrap.
Assist employees in the interpretation of procedures, methods, and correct use of production equipment to ensure procedures are followed.
Understand and support quality policies and implement guidelines to assure adherence to quality documents and standards.
Responsible for interviewing, hiring and development of operations staff.
Responsible for discipline, addressing complaints and resolving issues in accordance with applicable laws and/or company policy.