Plant Supervisor

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Overview: Explore career growth with a leading manufacturing company!

Schedule: 1st

Pay Rate: $60,000-$80,000

Benefits: Medical, Dental, AD&D

Location: Hobart, IN

Position Summary

Supervises activities of Shop employees. Supports manufacturing and safety objectives.

Job duties include but are not limited to:

• Leads the daily work of the team, including scheduling staff, planning and assigning work, implementing policies and procedures, and ensuring efficient work flow
• Direct employees in meeting quality and on-time delivery requirements, address production challenges, and communicate issues to relevant managers
• Follow the dispatch due dates and send reports with updates on the end of your shift to your manager and plant manager
• Partner with production department in managing workflow and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities and delegated tasks
• Lead 6S improvements with your manager and direct employees to reach the goal of 90 points
• Provides technical guidance to team members and consults with other resources when needed
• Communicates with the Manager regarding schedules and backlogs
• Assists the Manager with selection and performance management of employees and recommending compensation
• Recommends equipment upgrades, staffing adjustments, improvements in procedures and working conditions, and process modifications
• Monitoring employee productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching
• Gives the team written and oral instructions
• Standardizes procedures to improve efficiency
• Follows departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous improvement objectives, and safety rules
• Maintain timekeeping and attendance records for your groups using UKG
• Issue corrective actions for employees who are not adhering to compony polices (safety, attendance, etc.)
• Ensures that employees are progressing on training plans to achieve higher levels of performance and production.
• Evaluates employee performance.
• Responsible for first line employee relations and resolution of issues within their departments.
• Employees are responsible to comply with all requirements of Daifuku’s QMS policies and procedures.
• Employees are to ensure sustainable process outputs that drive continuous improvement to provide leading industry performance and exceptional customer satisfaction

Qualifications:

• High school graduate or equivalent; Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a technical field a plus
• Minimum of 5 years of manufacturing experience
• Supervisory experience a plus
• Supervisory skills
• Ability to deal with conflicts and employee issues in a professional manner
• Technical orientation with ability to learn new technologies
• Computer skills including MS Office
• Ability to multi-task while maintaining attention to detail and deadlines
• Team-oriented and collaborative
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Customer service orientation
• Problem-solving and analytical skills

Salary : $60,000 - $80,000