What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at Fabcon Precast?
Purpose/Scope
This position is responsible for improving the Company’s profitability by implementing Lean principles and practices to improve the operation’s Safety/5S, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC). The Production Supervisor provides all necessary direction to support groups and those within his/her area of responsibility to insure the proper fulfillment of customer orders.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manages customer orders to insure proper fulfillment
- Insures that all required resources are present to produce the required output
- Communicates progress toward order fulfillment
- Manages for daily improvement
- Establishes a lean vision for his/her processes, sets SQDC improvement goals, and takes the proper action to achieve these goals
- Posts and monitors SQDC measurements to provide visual trend of progress against goals and objectives, and to identify/seek opportunities for improvement
- Eliminates problems by taking immediate stop-gap measures, employing required support groups, recording critical data and driving root-cause elimination
- Insures that all members adhere to standard work and implements improvements to standard operations daily
- Provides strong leadership
- Conducts daily startup meetings to review SQDC performance, establish short and long term performance goals, review initiative status, present company issues, and build a winning team spirit
- Provides continuous feedback to members regarding their personal performance and rewards or disciplines accordingly
- Increases the team’s skill depth through use of cross-training matrices, development goal setting, and task rotation
- Interviews, hires and trains employees
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent in experience
- Two years of demonstrated experience leading a team to achieve objectives in a manufacturing or similar environment
Other Required Qualifications
- Demonstrate strong leadership, training and mentoring skills and will communicate in a way that builds understanding and dedication through use of presentations as well as verbal and written communications
- Flexibility, results orientation, and commitment to promote and achieve business goals are essential
Preferred Qualifications
- Four plus years of supervisory experience in a production or similar environment
Physical Requirements
- Ability to spend long durations standing/walking in a manufacturing environment with steep ladders and catwalks.
- Plant/Yard: Move minimum of 50lbs., spatial awareness/depth perception, walk, climb, bend at the waist, reach, forceful use of hand tools, vocal projection
- Office: Move 25lbs (not for all jobs, reasonable accommodations will be made), work with a computer for extended periods of time
Work Environment
- 50% of time will be spent in a loud, dusty manufacturing environment with wide variations in ambient conditions. The remainder will be spent in an office environment.
- Plant/Yard: All types of weather conditions (year-round, Mid-west and Northeast), dirt/dust, noise from heavy machinery/vehicles, vibrations from machinery and vehicles, loud noises, little to no climate control, varying amounts of light, stairs, narrow walkways
- Office: Quiet with some ambient noise, climate controlled, fluorescent lighting
Education
Required- Bachelors or better in Management
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
