Production Supervisor

Putnam Plastics; Dayville (CT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life Insurance

Paid time off

On-site gym

Tuition reimbursement

401K with company match

Job summary

Putnam Plastics Corporation, located in Dayville, CT, seeks a Production Supervisor to oversee daily production activities and lead a team in a high-standards manufacturing environment. Duties include scheduling, training, and ensuring safety and quality per customer specifications.

The role requires leadership experience in manufacturing, GDP knowledge, and strong English literacy with proficient math and office software skills.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent work experience.
• 1–3 years of supervisory/leadership experience in manufacturing.
• GDP knowledge and good documentation practices (GDP).
• Ability to read/write in English and interpret safety rules and procedures.
• Strong math skills and ability to perform English/metric conversions.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Supervise daily activities of the production area to meet cost, delivery, safety, waste, volume, and quality standards.
• Coordinate work schedules, staffing and production sequences to maximize productivity.
• Direct, assign and support employees; ensure materials/resources are available; comply with work instructions and customer specs.
• Adhere to safety requirements and PPE/clothing policies; train new employees and document qualifications.
• Monitor material levels and communicate needs to re-order as applicable.
• Provide information to identify barriers to timely product delivery and supervise all PPC production areas.

Skills

Leadership

English literacy

Math skills

MS Office

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Begin your career with us & help bring life-saving medical devices to the market, worldwide

Benefits Include:

• Medical, Dental, Disability & Life Insurance Options – Benefits Start After 30 Days!
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time & Holidays
• On-site Fitness Center, Trainer & Wellness Program – Access for Your Family Too!
• Clean & Temperature Controlled Work Environment
• Shift Differentials
• 401K with Company Match
• Quarterly & Annual Bonuses
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Private, Family Owned Company
• Smaller Company, Less than 500 Employees
• Proudly Based in the USA
• Located Right Off Highway 395

In order to achieve our mission of “Enabling Polymer Technology to Improve the Quality of Life” Putnam Plastics Corporation is focused on building an innovative workforce comprised of employees who pride themselves on challenging the status quo while providing the best quality product to our customers. We strive to provide our employees with the tools to be successful while working in a creative and fun working environment. We firmly believe that each employee contributes directly to our growth and success and that together, we can accomplish great things.

If you are excited by the opportunity to grow with a company that has a distinguished past and an even brighter future, Putnam Plastics Corporation may be the place for you!

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Location: Dayville, CT

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.

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.
• 40+ years experience across 36 countries
• Innovative design and research expertise
• In-house ISO certified production facilities