Production Shift Supervisor - 1st Shift (6am-2pm)

Job Description: Production Shift Supervisor

Department: Production Status: Non-Exempt

Reports To: Director of Operations Revision Date: 3/6/2025

Salary Range: $60,000 - $75,000

Description: The Supervisor’s role is to lead and coordinate a production team to accomplish Pelican Wire’s safety, quality, cost, and delivery standards while following our core values of Willing, Innovative, Results Driven, Employee Owners and Development. Our supervisor coordinates work schedules, staffing requirements, and production sequences to maximize productivity. Monitors production activity, identifies process problems, troubleshoots causes and develops solutions. Our supervisors also suggest improvements to improve safety.

Management Skills:

• Ensure work area follows 6S
• Partners with HR Department for employee related issues and compliance
• Identification and resolution of Safety and Quality issues ensuring compliance to Wire Experts Group Owner’s Manual and ISO 9001 standards
• Drive for Results by managing production employees to ensure that they are in the right place at the right time to meet production schedules
• Read, analyze and interpret job specifications, job orders/travelers, set-up sheets to ensure that customer requirements for quality, cost and delivery are met
• Make decisions concerning production schedules, staffing requirements, duty assignments, work procedures, production sequences while considering budgetary limitations and time constraints
• Administration of ERP system through accurate information entry
• Attend operational meetings, if shift allows, and be prepared to discuss and report KPIs for the following topics: staffing, scheduling, maintenance, safety, department efficiency, overtime and other assigned issues
• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments and shifts
• Actively participate and discuss operational issues during the daily shift GEMBA walk
  
  

Leadership Skills:

• Monitor and coordinate employee training in equipment operations, work and safety procedures, along with onboarding new hires
• Ensure that all employees have the information, tools, training, and resources needed to accomplish their job
• Develop employees for their next role.
• Ability to instill teamwork, delegate effectively, and build collaborative relationships.
• Live the Core Values of Pelican Wire’s and ensure that policies are followed consistently and in accordance with the Owner’s Manual.
• Take accountability for yourself and your team
• Perform Bi-Annual Performance Reviews including Individual Development Plans
• Willingly help fellow co-owners whenever necessary
• Actively resolve conflict
• Supports innovation through continuous improvement projects and initiatives.
• Live an entrepreneurial life. Be an Owner. Own your shift
  
  

Skills/Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communications skills. Generate and distribute shift report
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and six sigma principles. Able to implement improvement and communicate / teach manufacturing team.
• Mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot inefficiencies with operation/production activities.
• Demonstrated proficiency in various computer programs including Microsoft Office
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Product knowledge in the wire industry
• Ability to lead and work in teams and across departments to meet company needs
  
  

Education and Experience:

A high school diploma or equivalent and 3 years’ experience in supervising employees in a manufacturing environment or a combination of equivalent education and experience.

Work Environment:

Work is primarily indoors in a climate-controlled manufacturing building; noise level is moderate. Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts.

Physical Demands While performing the responsibilities of the job:

• Talk, hear/listen, stand, sit and walk throughout the day.
• Frequent use of hands and fingers, to handle or feel.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach for, lift and /or move up to 55 pounds, push, pull, handle and grasp objects.
• May be required to operate a forklift.
• Ability to see details at a close range, as well as identify colors on Munsell color chart.
• Inspect materials (small gauge wire), products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
• Observe work and monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or processing standards
  
  

Travel Requirement:

Occasional travel is required for interplant, customer, or supplier visits and external training.

Conclusion:

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. But this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

Additional Comments:

Those that excelled at this position in the past have had the following qualities, characteristics, or traits:

• Highly motivated with a desire to excel at their work and willingness to learn.
• Patient, and not easily frustrated. Ability to work in teams and across departments to meet company needs.
• The ability to plan and multitask.
• Exceptional work ethic and dedication to their company, and able to follow the Company Core Values.
• Comes to work every day with a great attitude. Thinks like an owner
  
  

As required by the Americans with Disabilities Act reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified applicants and/or employees to perform essential job functions.

Pelican Wire is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants and/or employees will be provided equal opportunity without regard to age, race, religion, sex, color or national origin.

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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