What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at senneca?
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.
- Supervise all employees and operations in the department.
- Maintain thorough knowledge of all processes and equipment.
- Report any process and equipment problems.
- Trains, evaluates and reviews personnel.
- Organizes work for smooth operations.
- Ensure 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 his/her 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.
