What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor - Night Shift position at PGT Custom Windows and Doors?
The Production Supervisor is instrumental in building strong relationships with team members in order to lead a highly motivated team of 25-50 team members
in production of our high-quality window and door products; furthermore, ensuring team members are safely and effectively performing job responsibilities
utilizing standardized methods providing consistent communication, training, coaching, development, recognition, and supervision.
- Supervise others working within established operational systems.
- Operate complex systems, adjusting processes to optimize quality and productivity. Also responsible for carrying out new product trials and for generating solutions to complex inefficiencies.
- Develop daily and weekly production plans for a factory or product line to include resource planning and monitoring and reporting on performance against the plan.
- Explain the local action plan to support team members in their understanding of what needs to be done and and how this relates to the broader business plan and the organization's strategy, mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
- Help specialists set up and test new products or processes.
- Carry out preventive maintenance inspections.
- Develop short- or medium-term work schedules in order to achieve planned commitments. Approve overtime or use additional resources as needed.
- Monitor and review performance against EHS KPIs, and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility; Take action to improve performance and to resolve non-compliance with the organization's EHS policies, procedures and mandatory instructions.
- Help management to implement quality assurance change initiatives and/or make continuous operational improvements.
- Provide coaching to team members to develop their skills.
- Identify, within the team, instances of non-compliance with the organization's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these and escalating issues as appropriate
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Business, or Engineering related
- Previous production supervisory experience in manufacturing is required. (Over 3 years to 6 years)
- Track record of driving safety, quality, on-time delivery, and Lean manufacturing.
- Ability to motivate and lead teams of hourly team members.
- Ability to analyze data and develop data-based solutions.
- Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (Over 3 years to 6 years)