Production Superintendent

The Production Superintendent leads daily operations, supervising staff to ensure safety, quality, efficiency, and on-time performance. Collaborates with site management to execute production plans and company initiatives, while enhancing customer satisfaction and refining operational processes.

This position requires full flexibility for relocation to various sites as part of succession planning and career development.

Core Functions:

• Enforces safety procedures, conducts safety reviews, and drives safety performance improvements.
• Develops team skills through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Leads communication huddles and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize safety, quality, and performance.
• Utilizes visual management for operational KPI tracking and enhancements.
• Manages quality control processes, promptly addresses issues, and ensures standards are maintained.
• Champions best practices in 5S, inventory management, labor efficiency, and cost control. Promotes a continuous improvement mindset and waste elimination across all operations.
• Oversees team performance, sets performance and improvement goals, and provides regular feedback including annual evaluations.
• Conducts recruitment interviews and resolves team conflicts.
• Communicates financial impacts and manages cost controls, including overtime and production efficiency.
• Motivates teams to exceed goals, implementing necessary adjustments to meet KPIs.
• Trains teams in operational principles and continuous improvement techniques, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
• Understands the market, customer needs, and product dynamics within the plant's scope, translating this knowledge into effective growth strategies and operations.
• Objectives include but are not limited to zero accidents, customer satisfaction, gross profit per pound, turnover, Best in Industry quality, scrap, labor efficiency, delivery performance, transportation cost, key equipment utilization, net income from Operations, and ROA.
• Monitors and adjusts production capacity and sales forecasts to support growth, ensuring production planning aligns with the "Right. On Time. Every Time." philosophy.
• Supports and encourages employee participation in the Giving Back program, promoting community involvement.
• Promotes positive constructive relationships between the site, the region, and support teams to ensure one team and confronting any non-productive behaviors to correct.

Key Measure of Success:

• Be detailed and customer oriented.
• Ability to read a tape measure, do basic mathematical calculations, and use a calculator.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Ability to function well in a high-paced environment.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to identify deficiencies and troubleshoot.
• Consistently exhibits and displays the company’s values of “Own It. Can Do. Act in Love.”

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant management experience preferred in a manufacturing environment; minimum of 3 years’ experience leading a team

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

This position is primarily working around machinery with moving parts, working around moving objects or vehicles. The employee is frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach/pull/push/grab with hands and arms, kneel, and crouch, twist and bend.

The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or crawl.

This position requires the ability to communicate verbally and electronically. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud and in a non-temperature controlled environment. While performing the core function of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, stand for long periods of time, and required to lift up to 55 lbs.