Production Supervisor

VITRO; Antis Township (PA); In loco; USD 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Vitro is seeking a production supervisor in Pennsylvania to lead shift teams, ensure safety, quality, and efficiency, and drive continuous improvement. The role requires coaching staff, coordinating tasks, and maintaining compliance with plant procedures.

The incumbent will lead safety initiatives, training, and conflict resolution while partnering with management on process improvements. The position emphasizes strong communication, team-building, and the ability to manage resources and respond

Competenze

• High school diploma or equivalent; degree preferred.
• Minimum of five years of supervisory experience in manufacturing.
• Strong problem-solving, conflict resolution, and communication skills.

Mansioni

• Supervise and coach all shift associates and maintain staffing levels.
• Direct the work activities to meet production goals and costs and customer requirements.
• Provide a safe work environment with safety training and incident investigations documented.
• Identify training needs and provide development for staff.
• Monitor production and downtime metrics and take corrective actions.
• Participate in improvement teams and support audits and corrective actions.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Team supervision

Safety awareness

Problem solving

Formazione

High school diploma or equivalent

Strumenti

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Descrizione del lavoro

This position is responsible for supervising all shift associates and for training and developing them in production methods and plant procedures to achieve plant and company goals for safety, quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. The incumbent supports the plant focus on continuous improvement to meet the requirements of both internal and external customers. This position is also responsible for all peripheral areas of the plant, including Maintenance and Shipping, in the absence of departmental supervisors. In the event of an emergency, this position will take the lead to ensure the safety of all employees and that all proper communications are made to facility management

• Supervise and coach all shift associates, dealing with areas of conflict and resolving problems to reduce conflict and ensure an environment of teamwork, respect and courtesy; maintain appropriate staffing levels, and participate in recruiting and selection activities. Monitor schedule and ensure manpower is in place for next shift, as required.
• Direct the work activities of all associates and assign tasks to ensure that the area or department achieves targeted production goals and costs and meets customer requirements.
• Provide a safe work environment by ensuring safety training and communication take place; Respond to and address safety concerns raised by employees and ensure that safe work practices are followed so that company and plant targeted safety goals are met; this includes enforcement of PPE, LOTO, hearing conservation, hazard communication and housekeeping procedures. Ensure incidents investigation are completed and documented in Impact. Respond to any event or emergency and take the lead to ensure the safety of all associates and the facility and communicate with facility management.
• Evaluate associates and identify areas requiring additional training and provide for that training to ensure continued growth and development of the workforce to meet company goals; follow company disciplinary procedures for behavioral issues that training and coaching fail to improve
• Monitor and report production and downtime metrics at daily meeting; provide corrective action as needed in areas of shrinkage loss, line downtime, pattern change duration, cost controls, rework, new part startup cost, sample metrics and customer PPM requirements to ensure problems are identified and corrected as needed.
• Participate on improvement teams as needed for safety rep teams, Breakthrough Teams, BAPP Steering Team/data collector teams to demonstrate commitment to area improvement and growth and encourage employee engagement.
• Support (where needed) QS9000/TS16949 policies and procedures and implement corrective actions from audits. To help the company maintain its certification status, comply with all business practices. Complete Layered Process Audits and develop corrective actions as required.
• Communicate regularly with management those production and employee problems that cannot be easily resolved at the supervisory level to properly escalated these to the appropriate level of management where corrective action can take place.

This position requires a high school diploma or equivalent, a degree in related field is preferred, and a minimum of five years of supervisory experience in manufacturing. Problem-solving, conflict resolution, and listening skills are essential. The incumbent must demonstrate the ability to utilize modern management concepts and exhibit good communication skills (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills for ongoing interactions with employees supervised by this position, as well as other team members and management personnel. The incumbent must have experience assigning work and delegating tasks. Team-building skills are essential to coach and develop associates and work with team members from other areas/departments/shifts.

Computer skills required for this position include a working knowledge of Microsoft EXCEL, Word and Outlook.

Status

Full-time

Location(s)

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