Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

New York Air Brake Corp.; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Air Brake Corp. is seeking an experienced production supervisor to oversee daily operations in the assigned production section and contribute to the weekly production plan.

You will allocate resources, implement process improvements, and ensure safety and quality guidelines are followed. You will lead a large team, conduct audits, and drive continuous improvement initiatives, reporting to the production manager.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or Business.
• 3-5 Years of Relevant Experience.
• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, SAP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide manpower planning to ensure production schedules are met.
• Lead the training and qualification process of direct reports.
• Facilitate team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements, etc.
• Lead and solicit continuous improvement ideas from team members.
• Conduct departmental audits (safety, 5S, etc).
• Ensure employees follow established procedures and standard work processes.
• Address employee performance issues promptly.
• Manage time and attendance to ensure proper compensation.
• Ensure adherence to HSE policies and procedures.

Skills

Leadership

Lean principles

Communication

Time management

Organization

Technical capacity

Quantitative methods

Statistical skills

Problem solving

Education

Associate Degree in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or Business

Lean Manufacturing / 5S (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Dayforce

Job description

Since 1890, New York Air Brake has been an innovative leader in the heavy-haul railroad industry. As a member company of Knorr-Bremse Group–the world’s leading manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles-New York Air Brake is recognized worldwide as a Center of Competence for heavy-haul freight railroad control systems serving customers around the globe. Our talented, diverse, and dedicated teams develop innovative solutions to the challenges facing our customers.

New York Air Brake is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Summary/Objective

Oversee and manages all day-to-day production operations, in the assigned production section. Contributes to production planning processes. Allocates personnel resources. Proposes procedures improvements and implements technical infrastructure. Ensures adherence to established quality guidelines and production safety requirements. Determines manufacturing priorities based on established weekly production schedules. Make daily assignments. Directs all related personnel actions; advise staff, executes performance measurements, etc... Interprets specifications and makes judgments about the acceptability of production that is in process. Leads all Production Operators in production section assigned.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provide manpower planning to ensure production schedules are met
• Lead the training and qualification process of direct reports
• Facilitate Team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements, etc
• Lead and solicit continuous improvement ideas from team members
• Conduct departmental audits (safety,5s,etc)
• Ensure employees are following established procedures and Standard work process.
• Address employee performance issues in a timely manner
• Manage the time and attendance system to ensure employees are properly compensated
• Ensure that all HSE policy and procedures are followed
• Conduct accident investigations
• Must be able to comply with quality, product safety, and HSE rules and regulations. Be energy conscious, if applicable.
• Must understand and comply with all relevant statutory or regulatory compliance obligations.
• Must understand, support and adhere to the Integrated Management System policies, procedures and instructions.
• Must understand and support relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), as defined in the goal tree.

Skills And Competencies

• Has SAP system knowledge.
• Exhibits accident investigation skills.
• Has Dayforce knowledge.
• Has working knowledge of lean principles.
• Exhibits excellent leadership skills.
• Technical Capacity
• Knowledge/understanding of property descriptions.
• Basic knowledge of quantitative methods/statistical procedures and graphic skills.
• Communication Proficiency
• Organization Skills
• Time Management

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has >10 direct hourly reports

Work Environment

The employee will be required to perform duties on a computer terminal. The employee will be exposed to shop floor conditions, i.e. noise, heat, cold, dust/dirt etc.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Required Education And Experience

• Associate Degree in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, Business
• 3-5 Years of Relevant Experience

Preferred Education And Experience

• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, SAP

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
• 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 any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
• This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

Safety Sensitive Position (Only applies to Transit)

Yes No