What are the responsibilities and job description for the 3rd Shift Production supervisor position at Cooper Standard?
Position Summary:
Ensure the achievement of the unit's safety, production, quality, and continuous improvement goals through adequate planning, organization, coordination and control of its human and technical resources and materials.
Primary Responsibilities
- Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
- Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
- Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
- Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
- Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
- Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
- Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
- Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
- Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
- Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
- Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
- Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
- Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
- Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
- Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
- Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
- May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
- Participate in or lead safety‐related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
- Ensure that HSE legal and management system requirements for work areas are met.
- May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
Education and Qualifications.
- Four year degree or two year degree in pursuit of a four year degree with two to four years in supervision and / or more than 3 years practical experience in supervision / management.
- Ability to identify and resolve day to day technical and operational problems.
- Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
- Computer competency required, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
- Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
Work Environment/Work Conditions.
- Professional Office Environment.
- Must wear proper personal protection equipment while on manufacturing floor.
- Travel to manufacturing facilities or customer locations when required.
- Equipment used requires proper training on the potential for and avoidance of injury.
