Production Supervisor

PPG Industries; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

PPG is seeking a Production Supervisor to coordinate the production department, train staff, plan and direct work, and resolve issues at the Portland, TN plant. You will report to the Production Manager and ensure safety, quality, and productivity goals are met with 12-15 direct reports.

Responsibilities include training and evaluating staff, maintaining production trackers, and ensuring OSHA and environmental compliance.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree preferred, but not required and one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; speak effectively before groups.
• Ability to calculate figures such as discounts, interest, and volumes; apply basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and interpret instructions from written, oral, or diagram form.

Responsibilities

• Manage production lines to meet safety, quality, and productivity goals.
• Trains, disciplines and evaluates 12-15 direct reports; schedule pickup and delivery of parts with customers.
• Coordinate with Quality, Maintenance and other functions to ensure information flow and safety compliance.
• Prepare and maintain production reports for the Production Manager.

Skills

Leadership

Safety compliance

Communication

Problem solving

Training

Team management

Education

Associate’s degree or equivalent

Job description

As a Production Supervisor , you will coordinate activities of the production department in processing materials or manufacturing products. You will train employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraise performance; and resolve problems! You will report to the Production Manager and sit at our Portland, TN plant.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage production lines to meet safety, quality, and productivity goals
• Manages labor and line density to achieve financial goals of line
• Ensures daily customer production demands are met and communicated to customers. Ensures all dispositions are done with product for a daily/shift basis
• Prepares and maintains all production reports to Production Manager
• Troubleshoot and problem solve with other team members
• Train, discipline and evaluate 12-15 direct reports. Schedule the pick-up and delivery of parts with our customers
• Analyzes production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational production problems and corrects or make recommendations for correction in a timely basis
• Verifies that all MITS transactions are accurate and complete and verifies that all process card parameters are met
• Maintains and updates visual production tracker boards and reviews daily with team members
• Coordinates daily with Quality, Maintenance and all other functional areas to ensure adequate information flow
• Maintain safe work environment; Ensures compliance with OSHA and Environmental regulations. Trains line leaders in such matters as safety and accident investigation. Confers with department heads concerning such problems as accident rates, and recommends and implements measures to improve safety records. Conducts all necessary safety, environmental, WWT, and 5(S) audits. Ensures data is entered into Metrics Tracking system.
• Trains, evaluates, and coordinates with Human Resources on continuous development of staff. Performs performance reviews, and provides feedback to subordinates; resolves personnel grievances and recommends corrective actions; determines staffing requirements, work procedures and duty assignments.
• Follow and maintain all proper safety procedures and utilize the appropriate personal protective equipment at all times
• Relieve employees during breaks, lunches as needed in various job positions
• Understand the emergency response procedures Participate in programs to enhance our safety and environmental performance
• Understand the significant environmental impacts of their work activities and the consequences of departing from specified work instructions
• Other tasks as directed by production manager

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree preferred, but not required and one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

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About us:

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We are customer champions

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, movefastanddon’tstop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow.

We act with purpose and speed

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.

We are excellentoperators

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, weidentifyproblems, takeownershipand always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support ourfrontline,the faces of PPG to our customers.

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