Production Supervisor - Houston, TX

VetJobs; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Production Supervisor in Houston, TX. The role involves overseeing production processes and ensuring quality while training staff and managing efficiencies. Ideal for military-affiliated candidates with strong leadership skills and a background in manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years supervision experience required.
• Preferred: supervision experience in a plastic process facility.
• Military-affiliated candidates encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Manage production quality, safety, and employee relations.
• Train personnel and maximize production efficiency.
• Ensure all equipment is well-maintained and operating.

Skills

Microsoft Suite

strong leadership

SPC knowledge

Education

High School diploma

Bachelors degree in a technical discipline

Job description

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Job Description

Job Description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

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.

Auto req ID

447530BR

Minimum Education Required

High School/GED

Job_Category

Manufacturing

Education

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

Required: High School diploma

Preferred: Bachelors 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.

City*

Houston

State*

Texas

Job Code

Manufacturing Manufacturing

Affiliate Sponsor

Silgan Containers

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

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