What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor II position at Volvo Group?
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
If you are ready for meaningful challenges, have a passion for business and customer satisfaction, and eager to make a difference, we invite you to apply to become a Production Supervisor with our company. At Mack Trucks, we support our team members in achieving their goals while at the same time helping to make our customers successful.
We strive for balance and believe that actively prioritizing a high level of diversity in our workforce creates a competitive advantage. It is our people that make the difference!
Core Responsibilities
- People leader responsibilities: focus on mentoring, coaching and coordination
- Manage staffing needs on a daily basis
- Payroll and time keeping
- Performance management
- Lead and manage safety activities
- Daily management of quality checks
- Daily team meetings
- Process Improvement initiatives and efforts
- Game plan development
Leadership and Technical Competencies
- Strong interpersonal, leadership, time management, planning, organizational, and analytical skills with proven results
- Integrity - Ensures both consistency of and compliance with company and departmental policies/procedures and performance standards. Implements operational plans to achieve designated objectives, established performance goals and quality standards.
- Ability to analyze procedures, routine reports, and correspondence with a strong attention to detail
- Identifies, reports and communicates to the Department Manager trends and/or irregularities. Takes a proactive approach to analyzing deficiencies and develops plans to correct. Recommends and implements solutions by involving team in problem solving to obtain the best results
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong problem solving and driving for Results, Priority setting and decision making. Ability to make good, rapid decisions in a face paced environment.
- Foster a sense of teamwork and collaboration with the operational stakeholders.
- Leads the team in creating an atmosphere that enables dialog and commitments that promote a continuous improvement mindset and has a favorable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of the site through accuracy measurements.
- Self-awareness: knows personal strengths, weaknesses and limits. Gains insights from mistakes and is open to criticism.
- Able to have developmental conversations with direct reports.
- Demonstrates emotional intelligence.
Minimum Education and Experience
- Preferred Associate Degree or higher
- Required 2 years plus of experience in a leadership/supervisory role
- Preferred 3 to 5 years' experience in a manufacturing/warehouse environment in a unionized manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency with MS office suite with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerBI
- Preferred Lean experience and/or Six Sigma Certification
Principal Duties and Accountabilities (*Essential Functions)
- Overall responsibility for production safety, delivery, quality, cost, environmental, people and on-time performance for the department/area
- Evaluate and improve current processes to deliver positive growth in key performance indicators
- Promote continuous improvement projects throughout the area
- Supervises, mentors, coaches and coordinates teams (direct staff & support functions)
- Approve time-reporting for teams in an accountable manner
- Meet Manufacturing Operations goals and objectives, both driving positive environment while promoting employee’s ideas and suggestions
- Complies & enforces Company and contractual policies, rules of conduct and regulations including OSHA, safety, environmental, and health and supports team in compliance with the same
- Manages staffing needs and concerns including but not limited to safety, ergonomics, overtime, absenteeism, discipline
- Leading Lean activities in assigned areas of responsibility, identifying waste and promoting continuous improvement. Advanced ability to apply various Lean Manufacturing tools
- Initiates cross functional feedback for problem solving
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Who we are and what we believe in
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Group Trucks Operations encompasses all production of the Group’s manufacturing of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks, as well as engines and transmissions. We also orchestrate the spare parts distribution for Volvo Group’s customers globally and design, operate and optimize logistics and supply chains for all brands. We count 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, where continuous improvement is the foundation. As our planet is facing great challenges, we - one of the largest industrial organizations in the world - stand at the forefront of innovation. We are ready to rise to the challenge. Would you like to join us?
