Powerline Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

The Powerline team is dedicated to fostering a positive, results-oriented work environment through effective coaching, mentoring, and open communication, while ensuring compliance with safety standards and performance metrics. By prioritizing continuous improvement and employee development, the team aims to enhance production efficiency and maintain a safe, issue-free workplace.

• Team leadership for assigned team leaders and employees. 
• Create a positive results-oriented work environment through coaching and mentoring of team leaders and employees. 
• Ensure safe and issue free work environment. 
• Maintain and improve production performance processes through waste reduction, problem solving and continuous improvement activity.   
• Understand production processes, requirements, prioritize, make decisions, and distribute machinery work orders to meet departmental and company production goals.   
• Review and approve employee timecards in time keeping software including vacation, PTO, etc. in a timely manner. 
• Track and train production employees for growth and development by ensuring employees are qualified and trained for assigned position and current level qualifications. 
• Accountable for performance management to include coaching, corrective counseling, and disciplinary actions, submitting employee step progressions, performance reviews, and any other ZF documentation relative to employee’s performance. 
• Direct production by regulating, coordinating, planning, assigning, resolving problems, disciplinary action, and assuring compliance with company safety, work procedures, housekeeping, and preventive maintenance programs. 
• Represents the team by reviewing and relying important information, make necessary inquires to expedite projects in areas (such as manpower, project status, process changes/problems, customer release complaints, etc.), manage, and assists team/department to achieve goals and process information (productivity, scrap work, accident reduction, etc.). 
• Facilitate team meetings (communication, safety, etc.) using problem solving techniques, maintains minutes, and follows up on action plans to direct production operations and department to for compliance with all company, division, and customer quality requirements. 
• Promote efficient production methods by assuring work instructions, gages, and all required documentation are in place as well as initiates and direct procedures to increase company quality and output. 
• Analyze operations, overseeing new job set ups, analyze machine/equipment malfunctions, and make necessary adjustments where needed. 
• Report results of the shift in a specific and complete manner (e.g. time and reporting employee hours, machine malfunctions, etc.) to promote shift to shift communication. 
• Prioritize, direct, and assist technicians to support production teams. 
• Other duties as it relates to this position. 

• High School diploma or GED 
• 2 years of related experience  
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written 
• Proficient computer skills, strong MS Office skills, specifically Excel 
• Problem-solving skills 
• Proven leadership abilities 
• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within manufacturing/operations 
• Ability to use (personally) and train individuals to use production/manufacturing equipment 
• Basic knowledge of plant operations management and lean principles, processes, and techniques
• Availability and flexibility schedule (e.g. weekends) to meet customer requirements. 

• A supportive, collaborative team environment
• Annual Incentive Plan
• Paid Vacation
• Personal Time
• 401k Plan
• Health Care Benefits
• Paid Holidays 
• A strong diversity culture
• Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities