Production Supervisor

Summary Description

This position is responsible for providing shift leadership while monitoring production performance and maintaining maximum output and quality on scheduled equipment. Develops, motivates, and supervises employees by setting goals and objectives with accountability for results. 

The Production Supervisor is responsible for scheduling the work of all Production and Warehouse personnel during their shift, ensuring that all shipments and customer orders are accurately cut, packed, shipped and timely released. The incumbent is expected to assist in making personnel decisions including recommendations for hiring, performance management, training, safety, etc. The incumbent will understand how to work all EPS machinery in the plant to ensure they are operating efficiently and are not a safety hazard to the employees.

Additionally, the incumbent should have a working knowledge of manufacturing methods and techniques involving the use and maintenance of industrial equipment, be familiar with production schedules and the use of sketches, bills of material and specifications, plus a broad shop background and practical training relative to manufacturing and safety general industry standards.

Essential Duties

Essential duties are interpreted as being descriptive and not restrictive in nature. Other duties may be assigned.

• Promote Safety: Ensure all tasks are performed safely and cultivate a secure work environment.
• Support IT Issues: Assist operators with computer problems and relay feedback issues to IT support.
• Daily Line Inspections: Walk the production line daily and complete/verify CILS (Continuous Improvement and Lean Systems).
• Manage Work Orders: Create and submit work order requests through PEMAC.
• Resolve Mechanical Issues: Collaborate with maintenance to address and fix mechanical problems on the production line.
• Silo and Baghouse Oversight: Manage silo operations and baghouse systems to ensure dust collector bags are not overfilled.
• Monitor Production Output: Ensure the line is operating at the correct output and report any discrepancies in process conditions to the Production Manager.
• Complete Checklists: Ensure that start-up and safety checklists for the area are completed and signed off before machinery begins operation.
• Redirect Workforce: Direct employees to alternative areas or tasks when the production line is down.
• Maintain Quality Standards: Ensure all quality forms and requirements are completed and adhered to.
• First Piece Inspection: Verify that all first-piece inspections and quality specifications are met.
• SAP Verification: Review and confirm goods issues and other confirmations in SAP during the shift.
• Data Collection: Complete data collection sheets and submit information through the appropriate channels.
• Operator Training: Assist with on-the-job and hands-on training of Operators.
• Maintain Cleanliness: Ensure the production area is clean and organized, and that the shadow board is properly stocked.
• Update Pace Boards: Ensure hourly Pace boards are updated and filled out on time.
• Conduct Meetings: Organize and lead Start-Up and Change Over meetings.
• Plan Work Assignments: Set deadlines, prioritize tasks, and plan work sequences based on plant management’s schedules, methods, and policies, ensuring timely and error-free completion in line with standard procedures, product specifications, and customer requirements.
• Coordinate with Other Supervisors: Align work with supporting or related functions managed by other supervisors.
• Provide Technical Guidance: Offer technical direction and assistance to employees to help them accomplish challenging work steps and processes.
• Supervise Cutting Activities: Oversee and coordinate the activities of workers operating cutting machines to ensure output meets customer specifications.
• Inspect Work Output: Examine work output by checking work orders, inspecting materials, and measuring all pieces before packaging or loading onto trailers.
• Manage Shipments: Supervise the receipt of all shipments and ensure that any receiving discrepancies or product damages are reported in writing according to standard operating procedures by the end of the shift.
• Handle Complaints: Evaluate and address complaints related to material shipments appropriately.
• Maintain Housekeeping: Ensure good housekeeping practices in the production, warehouse, and surrounding areas.
• Monitor Attendance: Track and manage daily absences, tardiness, and overtime considerations using UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) system.
• Promote Equal Opportunity: Apply Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Equal Opportunity Treatment (EOT) principles to all personnel management actions and decisions, ensuring all employees are treated without discrimination.
• Ensure Compliance and Safety: Educate and enforce compliance with security directives, safety and health practices, company policies, including safety regulations, personal protective equipment requirements, standard operating procedures, work instructions, quality system procedures, and good manufacturing practices.
• Guide and Motivate Employees: Lead, motivate, and discipline direct reports following best management practices and company guidelines.
  
  

Competencies – Manager Of Others

Aligning Performance for Success

Focusing and managing individual performance by helping others set performance goals/objectives, and then tracking results and continually evaluating performance effectiveness.  Aligning Performance for Success supports our business drivers of Building a High-Performance Culture and Increasing Global Focus.

Building Influential Partnerships

Leveraging relationships with internal and external partners to persuade key stakeholders to act to address customers’ needs and advance business objectives. Building Influential Partnership supports our business driver of Executing a Competitive Strategy.

Customer Focus

Ensuring that the internal or external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value. Customer Focus supports our business driver of Increasing Profitable Revenue Production.

Decision Making

Identifying and understanding challenges and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with facts and optimizes probable consequences. Decision Making supports our business driver of Driving Efficiency.

High-Impact Communication

Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that influences others’ thoughts and actions. High-Impact Communication supports our business drivers of Building a High-Performance Culture, Increasing Financial Performance, Increasing Global Focus, executing a Competitive Strategy and Driving Efficiency.

Leading a Culture of Trust & Integrity

Fostering a work environment that encourages people to act with integrity and treat each other and their ideas with respect; creating and protecting a high-trust environment by setting an example, advocating for others in the face of challenges, removing barriers, and rewarding others for demonstrating behaviors that cultivate trust. Leading a Culture of Trust and Integrity supports our business driver of Building a High-Performance Culture.

Health & Safety

The ability to effectively oversee, implement, and promote health and safety practices within a designated area or team. Individuals with this competency are responsible for ensuring the well-being of employees by creating and maintaining a safe and secure work environment. This includes the application of relevant regulations, the development of preventive measures, and the fostering of a culture that prioritizes health and safety.

Education And/or Experience

Employees must have a high school diploma or GED. An undergraduate-level course of study is preferred. A minimum of 5 years supervisory warehousing experience in a manufacturing plant is a must. Experience in building materials and the chemical industry is a plus.

Must Have

• Language skills – Proficiency in English is required for this supervisory role. Candidates must be able to read, speak, write, and understand documents such as work orders, picking sheets, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Spanish language skills are preferred.
• Communication skills – frequent, concise, and clear communication to keep stakeholders well informed of project progress.
• Computer skills - competency in basic computer skills. Must be able to navigate through window screens, create, open, save, upload, attach files and use electronic mail functions.
• Technical expertise – knowledge and skills to address product and technology specific questions
• Project management skills – effectively manage and deliver on key tasks and timeline
• Business skills – utilize knowledge of KINA business model and customers to provide business support and achieve category financial goals
• Problem solving skills – ability to resolve complex technical and business problems
• Analytical skills – generate and rely on data analysis when approaching a problem
• Collaboration and teamwork – work effectively with sales team, customers, contractors, and industry peers
• Mathematical skills - Employee must have good math skills and demonstrate the ability to use measuring devices appropriately and precisely, including the use of a measuring tape and digital caliper. Demonstrate ability to convert fractions to decimals.
• Safety acumen & safe operation of forklift - must successfully pass OSHA 10-hour safety and health training, forklift training and job assessments
• Reasoning Ability - Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Employees must have the ability to deal with problems involving variables in any situation. Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment is necessary to detect or assess problems.
• Physical demands – must be able to stand, walk, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to stand; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds on a regular basis throughout the day. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
  
  

All Employees Have The Following Compliance Obligations

• Remain compliant with the Code of Conduct and Policies which includes the Product Compliance Policy.
• Ensure that all duties related to product compliance are adhered to in accordance with the Product Compliance Policy, Laws, Regulations, and market demands.
• Responsible for all tasks to achieve compliance goals and demands of Compliance Management System.
• Must raise concerns related to the Compliance Management System to their supervisor, manager, any member of the Leadership Team, or through the confidential whistle blower service.