Unit Supervisor (Off-Shift Supervisor)

POSITION SUMMARY: Direct, organize, coordinate, plan and control performance and activities to ensure the manufacture of product to meet customer quality specifications and delivery requirements at the lowest possible cost. Develop the skills of all employees to create and promote an environment of involvement and continuous improvement. This position is for second or third shift based on experience.

Essential Functions

• Ensure a safe workplace through enforcement of safety rules, instruction of employees in safety procedures and rules, and timely response to potential or actual hazards. Complete accident reports.
• Lead, monitor, direct, and control all available resources (work force, machines, etc.) to ensure full utilization so that needs, goals, and objectives of the business are met.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate the daily activities of hourly employees assigned to achieve a quality product at the lowest possible cost.
• Ensure employees are instructed and trained to accurately report their daily activities.
• Enforce work rules. Counsel, discipline, and reprimand employees if required. Maintain written records.
• Plan and assign overtime work and maintain overtime rotation list.
• Ensure that the proper types of quantities of tools, supplies, materials, and equipment are available to perform the required work to specifications and standards.
• Cooperate with production control, inspection and engineering in the scheduling of jobs and equipment.
• Coordinate with all service functions (production control, maintenance, engineering, quality, etc.) to ensure the support required by the manufacturing effort.
• Recommend alternate processing methods, as needed, to maintain schedule requirements, improve quality or reduce unit costs. Make recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Maintains constant review of inspection results, scrap and repair to be aware of quality trends and isolate sources of error before excess scrap or rework occurs.
• Assist engineering in the development of new programs.
• Communicate with all levels of the organization concerning capabilities, performance and needs of the work group required to meet business goals and objectives.
• Participate in Kaizen and Continuous Improvement workshops both at Cleveland and other Pursuit Aerospace sites.
  
  

Qualification Requirements

• Associate or bachelor's degree in mechanical or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience working with and providing technical support for processes, tooling and equipment that involve forging or forming of materials.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Supervisory experience in a unionized environment.
  
  

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS: Possess technical knowledge of manufacturing and engineering processes. Requires excellent leadership and communications skills, and the ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.

Physical Demands

• Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing.
• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, and reaching.
  
  

Adhere to defense industry’s initiatives on business ethics and conduct with respect to fraud, waste, and abuse. Meet compliance requirements of Pursuit Aerospace Business Conduct Guidelines as applicable to this position.

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