Production Supervisor

Putnam Plastics Corporation; Dayville (CT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Putnam Plastics Corporation in Dayville, CT, seeks a Production Supervisor to oversee daily activities in the production area, drive productivity, and ensure safety, quality and on-time delivery. The role requires coordinating work schedules, staffing, and production sequences in alignment with company objectives.

The ideal candidate has 1–3 years of supervisory experience in manufacturing, strong leadership, and GDP documentation practices, plus proficiency in MS Office.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent work experience.
• 1 to 3 years of leadership or supervisory experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• Strong leadership and organizational time-management skills.
• Must possess good documentation practices (GDP).
• Read/write in English; understand PPC documents, safety rules, instructions, drawings and SDS sheets.
• Strong math skills; read measurements in English and metric with conversions.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).

Responsibilities

• Oversees daily production activities to meet cost, delivery, safety, waste, volume and quality standards.
• Coordinates staffing and production sequences to maximize productivity.
• Directs, assigns, and supports employees; ensures materials and resources are available.
• Adheres to safety requirements and PPE/clothing procedures.
• Follows safety rules including handling chemicals, LOTO and HAZMAT as applicable.
• Trains new employees; handles training forms and documentation.
• Monitors materials and communicates re-order needs.

Skills

Leadership

Time management

English literacy

Adaptability

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associate or Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

Putnam Plastics Corporation (PPC) is the industry leading manufacture of life-saving medical devices components for over 42 years. We are looking for people who want to invest in their future, the future of PPC and our PPC community. Please refer to our website at putnamplastics.com/about/career-opportunities for more information.

This is a summary only. We are an EEO employer.

Production Supervisor

Supervises the daily activities of the production area to ensure that cost, delivery, safety, waste, volume, and quality standards are met. Coordinates work schedules, staffing and production sequences to maximize productivity. Supervision performs assessments, documentation, and organization tasks to support the efficiency and effectiveness of the department, and in accordance with overall company and department objectives, as well as state and federal regulations. This position occasionally works in an environmentally controlled/white room.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Completes production plans accomplishing work results, establishing priorities, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, and reporting results of the processing flow on shift production with Managements, Shift Supervisors, Leads and Scheduling.
• Maintain workflow by setting process variables, monitoring steps of the process: observing equipment and control points, facilitating corrections implementing cost reductions.
• Directs, assigns, supervises, and supports employees. Ensure material and resources are available for manufacturing of product. Ensure all work is completed as defined by the work instructions and customer specifications.
• Safety: adheres to safety requirements practices/procedures as required, including PPE/ clothing.
• Follow workplace safety rules including proper handling practices of chemicals per procedures, LOTO and HAZMAT policies, refer to SDS when applicable.
• Work with and train new employees: including training forms, qualification cards, verification documents ensuring all employees are proficient in the skill, procedure, practices.
• Monitor material and supply levels and communicates the need to re-order when applicable.

Supervisory Responsibility: Summary only

working with Manager's daily including supervisors, leads and HR to assist with efficient workflow and environment setting,

Provide information to identify any potential barriers to the timely execution of the product/orders in support of on-time delivery.

Supervises all production areas in all PPC buildings.

Effective communication is important, with employees for a clear/understandable expectations and improvement in performance and job knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent work experience.
• 1 to 3 years of previous leadership or supervisory experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• strong leadership, organizational time-management skills.
• must possess good documentation practices (GDP)
• Ability to read/write in English, interpret all PPC documents, including safety rules, operational instructions, procedure manuals, engineering drawings, specifications and geometric dimensioning and tolerances and SDS sheets.
• Strong Math skills, measure in English and metric measurements with conversions.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with continuously changing jobs and priorities.
• Ability to effectively use and/or learn Microsoft office, Word and Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Previous experience in any of the following: Assembly, Extrusion, Polymer, Tooling.
• Excellent leadership skills, experience and ability to accept change.
• Lean manufacturing or six sigma training.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001:2008, ISO 13485:2003, GLP, cGMP, FDA and other applicable standards

Physical Requirements

(with or without the aid of mechanical) The physical requirements 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.

• Regularly required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to input, handle or feel, use of arms to reach, able to hear and talk.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Position requires data entry and regular use of computer/keyboard/mouse.
• Works in both manufacturing and office environments.
• Periodically overtime could be required including weekends.
• Some travel, including between PPC owned properties is required.