Production Supervisor (Metal Fabrication)

Introduction

At Senneca, we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of the innovators that created our brands from traffic doors, to cold storage doors to fiberglass doors and beyond. We are committed to exceeding our customers’ expectations and to provide doors that offer safety and protection to our customers’ most important assets…people, products, capital investments and processes.

Overview

This position requires successful experience in leading and managing teams in a manufacturing environment. Performs activities involved in managing all department employees and complies with all safety, quality, and housekeeping standards. This position requires overall knowledge of equipment and plant processes. Coordinates production flow, identify/resolve issues, make improvements, and optimally achieve all safety, quality, and customer service objectives. Becomes proficient in all jobs and directly trains production employees within area(s) of responsibility.

Will play an active role in cross training and seeking employee input for identifying production constraints, establishing achievable department goals and accept accountability for helping implement improvements necessary to meet them.

The core schedule for this role is Monday - Thursday, 4:15 p.m. - 3:15 a.m., with some time required on Fridays.

Responsibilities

• Supervise all employees and operations for the shift
• Maintain thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment
• Report any process and equipment problems
• Trains, evaluates, and reviews personnel
• Organizes work for efficient operations
• Ensures that established policies, rules and regulations, and procedures are followed
• Responsible for all processes, equipment, safety, and housekeeping of the area
• Responsible for meeting production and quality standards in the department
• Complete production reports
• Troubleshoot problems
• Plans and adjusts production staffing and capacity to effectively meet production build plans. Develops and utilizes own knowledge of products, processes, equipment, and quality standards to develop/update standard work procedures and cross train department production employees as required to improve overall quality and productivity.
• This position requires good overall knowledge of products, equipment and processes and procedures which must be maintained through demonstrated skill and ability to perform all jobs in the department product line area
• Must demonstrate good communication skills
• Must possess skill in documenting, recording, and organizing data/information
• Effectively work within teams, both as a leader and team member
• Ability to work both independently and within teams to meet business needs
• Willingness to gain knowledge of and practice Continuous Improvement and use Operational Excellence tools to meet manufacturing and business needs
• Review production paperwork to verify customer orders are being produced correctly and are on schedule
• Identifies continuous improvement opportunities and actively implements solutions to achieve desired operational goals and results
• Monitors product quality standards and participates in quality audits to insure consistent and reliable quality is being produced and shipped daily
  
  

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

• Helping production employees develop their skills, product quality, and productivity
• Work with area employees and management to plan and conduct Continuous Improvement
• Performs other specific duties as directed
  
  

Requirements

Performance Expectations:

• Meets all company and operational key objectives and goals
• Accuracy, quality, thoroughness, and timeliness of work performed
• Quality communications and development of good working relationships with others in the organization, including customer communication
• Honesty and integrity in all communications; maintain integrity of confidential business information; remain current in the field and utilize that information where practical
• Demonstrates professionalism, commitment to the job, and loyalty to the organization
• Likely will be performing hands-on production and warehouse activities throughout shift
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Lean experience desired; training with practical application of lean tools
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field with 2-3 years manufacturing environment supervision experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Metal fabrication environment preferred
• Must be able to effectively lead and motivate people
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to work with detail, accuracy and timeliness. Must be able to perform multiple functions simultaneously and prioritize those functions to meet the needs of internal/external customers
• Must demonstrate good communication skills. Must possess skill in documenting, recording, and organizing data/information. Effectively work within teams, both as a leader and team member. Ability to work both independently and within teams to meet business needs
• Willingness to gain knowledge of and practice Continuous Improvement and use cardinal software to achieve those goals
• Must demonstrate excellent PC, oral and written communication skills. Must be able to use Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  
  

Work Environment:

The work environment is metal fabrication manufacturing facility where frequent interruptions, distractions and moderate levels of noise occur. It requires wearing safety glasses (provided) and other required personal protective equipment.