Line Production Leader: Drive Output & People

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.; Sugar Land (TX); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental & vision plans

401(k) employer matching

Generous PTO policy

Descripción de la vacante

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. in Sugar Land, TX, is seeking an on-site Production Supervisor to manage daily work orders and production personnel, ensuring line goals are met. The role emphasizes staffing, training coordination, and adherence to SOPs in a cleanroom environment.

You will lead shifts, monitor performance metrics, and mentor operators while coordinating with engineers and management to resolve constraints and ensure timely production.

Formación

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Ability to work effectively in a repetitive manufacturing environment and maintain the manual dexterity required for production-related tasks.
• Basic computer and data-entry proficiency required, including working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to use, or learn to use, microscopes, basic electrical instruments, hand tools, and measuring tools.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct daily staffing and attendance checks to identify employees who are present, tardy, or absent and assess potential impacts to production requirements.
• Identify staffing shortages and coordinate appropriate coverage, including working with management to obtain support from other shifts when necessary.
• Promptly elevate staffing, equipment, process, or other operational issues that may affect daily production output or schedule attainment to appropriate management.
• Coordinate with technicians, engineers, and management to resolve production constraints, including staffing gaps, equipment issues, and other conditions that may delay the production line.
• Assign production personnel to appropriate workstations and equipment based on production priorities, staffing availability, and operational needs.
• Review daily, weekly, and monthly production goals and coordinate personnel and resources to support achievement of established targets.
• Monitor and communicate production line status, output, yield, and significant issues during shift handoffs between day and night shifts.
• Maintain awareness of daily and weekly operator schedules and coordinate staffing to support adequate production line coverage.
• Manage and prioritize daily work orders to support timely completion of production requirements.
• Provide day-to-day coaching, mentoring, and guidance to production operators and support the development of newly assigned employees.
• Coordinate new-operator training in partnership with the designated training team and ensure required training is completed.
• Maintain and update operator training records following successful completion of required training.
• Enforce production line rules, electrostatic discharge (ESD) requirements, cleanroom procedures, break schedules, attendance requirements, and other applicable company policies.
• Ensure operators follow approved standard operating procedures, work instructions, and established production processes.
• Review and approve subordinate employee timecards/timesheets in accordance with company timekeeping procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support production operations and departmental objectives.

Conocimientos

Data entry

Microsoft Excel

Basic computer skills

Manual dexterity

Educación

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Herramientas

Microscopes

Electrical instruments

Hand tools

Measuring tools

Descripción del empleo

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. in Sugar Land, TX, is seeking an on-site Production Supervisor to manage daily work orders and production personnel, ensuring line goals are met. The role emphasizes staffing, training coordination, and adherence to SOPs in a cleanroom environment.

You will lead shifts, monitor performance metrics, and mentor operators while coordinating with engineers and management to resolve constraints and ensure timely production.