Night Shift Production Leader

Cooper-Standard Automotive, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cooper Standard is seeking a Manufacturing Supervisor to lead teams on the shop floor in Northville, Michigan, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time production.

The role requires supervising with two to four years of leadership experience, solving day-to-day production issues, and driving continuous improvement with the CI teams. Travel may be required, and a 4-year degree or equivalent supervisory background is expected.

Qualifications

• Four year or two year degree with supervisory experience.
• Ability to identify and resolve day to day technical and operational problems.
• Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
• Computer competency: spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
• Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
• Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
• Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
• Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
• Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
• Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
• Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
• Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
• Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
• Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
• Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
• Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
• Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
• Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
• Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
• Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
• Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
• May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
• Participate in or lead safety‑related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
• Ensure that HSE legal and management system requirements for work areas are met.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Computer literacy

Travel willingness

Education

Four year degree in supervision/management

Two to four years supervisory experience + 3 years management

Tools

Spreadsheet software

Charting software

Word processing

Job description

Cooper Standard is seeking a Manufacturing Supervisor to lead teams on the shop floor in Northville, Michigan, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time production.

The role requires supervising with two to four years of leadership experience, solving day-to-day production issues, and driving continuous improvement with the CI teams. Travel may be required, and a 4-year degree or equivalent supervisory background is expected.