Machining Supervisor

FUNCTION :

Supervises one or more departments by assigning tasks and providing resources to accomplish quality, productivity / efficiency, schedule, cost and employee relations goals. Uses technical knowledge and sound judgment to ensure key result areas are achieved and responsibilities are fulfilled.

KEY RESULT AREAS :

• Product quality is assured by enforcing disciplines to standard operating procedures, frozen processes and elimination of variation / deviation from work instructions.
• Mistakes and non-conformances to specifications are prevented by ensuring that SOP's are understood and followed.
• Integrity of product is maintained by ensuring that characteristics have been inspected and recorded according to defined quality tier and production levels.
• Investigations are conducted, in conjunction with a quality team member, to determine the root cause of each discrepancy and how the discrepancy can be corrected. There must also be appropriate corrective action in place to prevent the discrepancy from recurring.
• Works with employees, technical services and quality assurance to remove non-conformance risk and variation from programs, methods and processes.
• Work efforts are productive and efficient through effective assignment of skilled resources.
• Proactively plans and coordinates with the team to ensure material, tools, fixtures, programs and gauging is staged prior to the scheduled operation start time.
• Assigns work and ensures each team member understands the task, the allotted standard time, and the manufacturing methods to be applied. Ensures resources are available to achieve routed standards and process plans.
• Monitors production progress to proactively identify and solve problems which may lead to work disruption, inefficiency and / or delay.
• Actively participates in daily schedule and production coordination meetings and utilizes schedule information to assign people according to schedule needs. This may include the scheduling of overtime to achieve schedule and throughput goals.
• Observes work tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency improvement and eliminating areas of waste. Initiates action as necessary to implement the improvements.
• To ensure employees understand and recognize they are important members of the team and are motivated to provide excellent quality, productivity, work ethic and continuous incremental improvement in work efforts, the supervisor will aid in the following :
• Employees receive training in their main assignment and cross training where needed and as practicable to ensure they can contribute to multiple assignments when called upon to do so.
• Performance appraisals are conducted on schedule and the appraisal is an objective overview of the employee's behavior relative to quality, productivity and following company policies, procedures and processes.
• Recognizes and praises employees verbally and in writing when exemplary / outstanding performance, commitment and results are demonstrated.
• Initiate disciplinary action as necessary according to established company policies and procedures while ensuring employees are treated consistently, fairly and with dignity and respect.

DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE / EDUCATION

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE / SKILL