Manufacturing Supervisor - Night Shift

Superior Essex Communications; Brownwood (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Superior Essex Communications is seeking a Production Supervisor to oversee shift activities in the wire and cable manufacturing area. You will supervise staff, plan production operations, and ensure safety and quality standards are met.

Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, training, and performance appraisals, as well as coordinating schedules and maintaining production data for monthly inventory reports. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising production staff and coordinating shift activities.
• Ability to plan production operations and set priorities to meet schedules.
• Experience interviewing, hiring, training, and evaluating employees.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervises employees in the assigned production area.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policy and applicable laws; interviews, hires and trains employees; plans, assigns and directs work; appraises performance; rewards and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Supervises and coordinates all shift activities of assigned production area(s) engaged in manufacturing wire and cable products.
• Reviews production schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, specifications and delivery dates; assists in revisions.
• Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products in the assigned area.
• Makes personnel assignments, maintains housekeeping and safety standards, interprets policies and procedures, and conducts employee performance appraisals.
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent delays.
• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure operational performance and optimum utilization; provides instructions on proper operations.
• Assists engineering with new processes and designs.
• Enforces rules, resolves worker complaints and forwards unresolved issues to production management.
• Completes and forwards production data and assists with monthly inventory.
• Maintains and forwards relative production data and assists with monthly inventory.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Production planning

Employee coaching/training

Interviews & hiring

Performance appraisal

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Communication

Reading/writing documents

Microsoft Office

Education

One year certificate from college or technical school

3–4 years related experience

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Job description

Education And Experience Requirements

One year certificate from college or technical school and /or three to four years related experience and /or training or equivalent combination of education and experience

Education And Experience Requirements

One year certificate from college or technical school and /or three to four years related experience and /or training or equivalent combination of education and experience

Directly supervises employees in the assigned production area.

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizations' policy and applicable laws. Responsibilities include: interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems

Essential Purpose Of This Position

Supervises and coordinates all shift activities of assigned production area(s) engaged in the manufacture of wire and cable products by performing the following duties personally or through employees

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Reviews production schedules to ascertain product data such as: types, quantities, specifications and scheduled delivery dates in order to meet customer requirements and assists in establishing necessary revisions
• Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products in assigned area
• Makes personnel assignments, maintains housekeeping and safety standards, interprets policies and procedures, observes assigned employees to ensure compliance with production and quality standards and conducts employees performance appraisals
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays and executes instructions from production management
• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization as well as provided instructions on proper operations
• Assists engineering personnel with new process and designs
• Enforces rules, resolves worker complaints and problems and submits unresolved situations to production management for action
• Completes, maintains and forwards relative productions data and assists with monthly inventory

Skills And Abilities Required

• To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• In order to perform this job satisfactorily, applicant must be able to:
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as: safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees or organization
• Ability to add and subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios and percentages and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations
• 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, use hands to finger; handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and taste and smell
• The employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
• 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 the essential functions
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud

Computer Equipment And Software Requirements

• Able to use Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.