What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Shift Supervisor position at Wieland Group?
Production Shift Supervisor
Job Location US-IL-Lake Zurich
ID 2025-3085
of Openings
Posted Date
2 hours ago (2 / 20 / 2025 2 : 54 PM)
Overview
Wieland - Creating Value for Generations!
Wieland is a global leader in copper and copper alloy manufacturing, processing, and distribution. We provide a large product and service portfolio including power, automotive, ammunition, coinage, construction materials, refrigeration, electronics and many other industries. To us, metal is more than material.
Wieland's Cultural Values
Wieland's culture is what makes for a fun and rewarding place to work! As a company, we benefit daily from our employees' knowledge and abilities. With our cultural vision, we place our core values at the heart of everything we do : safety , ambition , optimism , reliability , ownership , diversity , & respect .
Wieland is hiring a Production Shift Supervisor. The Production Shift Supervisor d irectly supervises shift production personnel in the machine shop. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and procedures. Responsibilities include operating machines when required, executing operational plans, assigning and directing the work; addressing and resolving problems and complaints, training, motivating and providing feedback to the employees; conducting performance reviews and disciplining employees. This role is located in Lake Zurich, IL and will be fully on-site.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities :
Promotes a safe environment
- Oversees the daily activities required to process the current production jobs, promoting and ensuring a safe environment throughout the process
- Maintains and contributes to shop floor cleanliness and organization
- Reviews and executes the daily production schedule with the Scheduler
- Assists in the coordination of workflow to ensure optimal use of resources with the lowest labor cost
- Monitors the hour by hour boards to ensure production rates are achieved, maintained and follows up to resolve issues, involving engineering or maintenance, if required
- Supervises the employees responsible for meeting acceptable efficiency, quality, and production levels providing continuous coaching
- Processes work in regards to deadlines, quality control and production control by leveraging employees and determining training gaps
- Use Vantage as a tool for job / inventory adjustments, inventory location and inventory inquiries
- Reviews defective products and educates team to promote awareness of defectives and encourage zero defects
- Provides feedback to management regarding issues or problems on a job, prior to the deadline
- Encourages employee development through review and execution of training and development; promoting the tuition reimbursement program
- Complete performance reviews in a timely manner
- Must be a leader embracing the modeling the company's Core Values
- Communicates with other leaders on all activities that are taking place pertaining to jobs, ensuring continuity of processes and work
- Promotes a positive team environment and develop cross functional team to support MBP
- Suggests process improvements and is a change agent, following through when change is necessary
- Interview new candidates
- Enforce Company policies and procedures
- Reward and recognize individual efforts
- Calculate / review / communicates Production metrics
- Support Lean Manufacturing principles
- Participate in problem solving / correction actions / error proofing
- Promotes the use of statistical process control
- Maintain skill matrix for employee development and advancement
Qualifications :
Qualifications
Joining Wieland's team gives you...
Wieland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer . We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees. Come join Wieland today and help us continue to build a global corporation we are all proud to belong to.
