Production Supervisor

silgancontainers; Flora (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Silgan Containers is seeking a production supervisor to manage the production floor, uphold quality and safety standards, and lead a diverse team in a plastic process environment. The role focuses on training personnel, optimizing production efficiency, and maintaining equipment to prevent downtime.

The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of supervisory experience, a High School diploma (Bachelor's in a technical field preferred), and knowledge of SPC.

Qualifications

• High School diploma is required.
• 3-5 yrs supervision experience is required.
• Experience in a plastic process facility is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production, quality, safety, employee relations and resource control on the production floor.
• Train personnel using formal and informal methods to capably supervise diverse teams.
• Maximize production efficiency and ensure safe, quality output.
• Maintain equipment to minimize downtime and ensure proper manufacturing standards.
• Direct and assign work to employees and monitor safety practices daily.
• Investigate accidents, near misses, and safety incidents; enforce safety procedures.

Skills

Microsoft Suite

Strong leadership

SPC knowledge

Education

High School diploma

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Job description

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

Trains, evaluates, and takes appropriate action to maintain a safe work environment with established standards and guidelines. Manage the people and processes in manufacturing to effectively produce a quality product. Investigates, evaluates and takes appropriate action to maintain quality within established standards and guidelines. Actively pursues opportunities to improve product quality. Investigates, evaluates and takes appropriate action to maintain and improve production efficiencies within the established standards or guidelines. Investigates, evaluates, reports and takes appropriate action to maintain cooperative relations. Investigates, evaluates and takes appropriate action to keep the resource usage within established standards or guidelines.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for production, quality, safety, employee relations and resource control on the production floor.
• Train Personnel - Training never ends. Training includes formal and informal methods. Supervisors spend a lot of time training and working with people. This should be accelerated with new, displaced, or unfamiliar workers.
• Maximize Production Throughout - Supervisors are responsible for the efficient use of labor and materials to maximize production throughout.
• Maintain Equipment - Insure all equipment is in good operating condition. Prevent down time due to mechanical problems through anticipating problems and correcting them before down time occurs.
• Follow Standard Practices - Supervisors are responsible to ensure equipment is set up to proper manufacturing standards to provide quality production and efficient, trouble free operation.
• Maximize Floor Time - To be effective, supervisors are expected to spend 60-80% of their time on the floor. Supervisors are responsible to actively participate in the identification and resolution of any problems that may occur.
• Review Production Reports - When reviewing production reports, supervisors must know reasons for all periods of substandard performance and formulate plans to immediately correct them.
• Effective Verbal and Written Communications - Supervisors must effectively use verbal and written communications to communicate production and quality related issues to others. The use of effective communication is necessary to maintain equipment condition, insure proper maintenance practices and for the timely resolution of problems.
• Administer established standards, practices, and procedures. Responsible to meet standard efficiency, scrap loss, material usage, UPH.
• Direct and Assign Work to Employees - Supervisors must ensure adequate work is assigned to employees. Employees must be effectively utilized, particularly those employees with discretionary time (i.e. utility, relief). Employees must understand where they are to work, what their responsibilities are, and how long they are expected to perform those duties.
• Know and Apply Written Safety Procedures - Knowledge and application of all safety manual programs is required. Supervisors need to keep themselves and their employees abreast of changes and updates to these programs.
• Inspect Work Areas - Supervisors are responsible for inspecting their work areas daily for unsafe conditions & behaviors. When recognized, unsafe conditions & behaviors need to be corrected immediately. Supervisors should make direct contact with each of their employees weekly, in routine communication, to discuss job related safety topics.
• Investigate Accidents & Near Misses - Supervisors are responsible for reporting, investigating, and documenting all accidents and reported near misses. Investigations must be completed in a timely manner.
• Enforce Safety Rules - Supervisors are key to enforcement of safe work practices. Supervisors must initiate appropriate measures with employees who fail to follow established safety procedures.
• SPC working knowledge including continuous improvements efforts.

EDUCATION:

• Required: High School diploma
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

EXPERIENCE:

• Required: 3-5 yrs supervision experience
• Preferred: 3-5 yrs supervision experience in a plastic process facility.

SKILLS:

• Required: Microsoft Suite, strong leadership, SPC knowledge.

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER (Non-Canada)

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

All job requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-re