Night Shift Quality Supervisor (Plastic / Packaging Industry)

The primary purpose of this position is to provide leadership for a diverse hourly workforce. This position will be experienced in coaching, developing, ensuring adherence to policy/procedures, and maximizing quality compliance. Strong communication and leadership skills, and the ability to resolve workplace issues effectively are required. The Supervisor will guide, train, influence, and support their team members to ensure regulatory compliance, safety and operational efficiencies, and targeted results are met.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for hiring, interviewing, and training employees
• Responsible for performance and appraisal of employees
• Analyze work orders to estimate worker hours and create schedule for production
• Computes amounts of stock and supplies required for operations, based on production schedules; requisitions materials from storage area
• Interprets specifications, drawings and production orders to workers and assigns duties
• Plan flow of materials through departments and develops plans to run machines according to work orders
• Interfaces with others in the organization to ensure customer deadlines are met or job order status is communicated
• Inspects and measures parts and products to verify conformance to specifications
• Directs works in adjusting machines and equipment to repair products which fail to meet standards
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures to meet production schedules
• Develops, recommends and implements measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and quality of product
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of department or work crew
• Recommends capital equipment justifications of machine tools and process technology to improve quality, cost and cycle times
• SQF/ISO requirements compliance
  
  

Qualifications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Minimum High School Diploma or GED plus 5 years of operations experience required
• Minimum of 2 years leadership or supervisory experience highly desired
• Qualification or ability to obtain qualification in area strongly preferred
  
  

Other Qualifications

• Must be able to demonstrate, based on past performance, excellent leadership skills and experiences
• Ability to influence, direct, coach and develop employees and to provide the necessary tools to ensure performance to meet area and site goals
• Ability to delegate, as required
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory/compliance issues, ES&H policies, guidelines and procedures
• Knowledge of budgeting, cost controls and purchasing as it relates to labor and maintenance expenditures
• Problem solving, conflict resolution, facilitation, and prioritizing skills
• A strong bias to “act on facts” and “data driven” logic to develop creative solutions
• Strong sense of ownership and a drive to improve existing systems and processes
• Solid interpersonal and organizational skills with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Moderate to advanced computer skills are required including proficiency in MS Office
• Demonstrated and strong root cause and corrective action skills are a plus
  
  

Skills: problem solving,leadership,coaching,operations,cost control,prioritization,performance appraisal,sqf,conflict resolution,ms office proficiency,quality compliance,interpersonal skills,data analysis,compliance,quality supervisor,production schedules,iso standards,data-driven decision making,regulatory compliance,corrective action,root cause analysis,communication,budgeting,organizational skills,cost controls,scheduling,operation monitoring,process improvement,iso,quality control,manufacturing,leadership skills