Essential Duties:

Safety:

• Identify unsafe conditions and eliminate safety hazards.
• When an incident occurs, a full understanding of what happened needs to be understood, corrective action taken and reflected in the incident report.
• Incident reports need to be reviewed by the Director of Operations for comment and corrective action as required.
• Breakdown by department.
• Regularly coach, encourage and monitor employees for compliance with safety rules and practices.

Staffing/Training:

• Staff each workcenter based on workload. Assign people as required to meet workload. Make recommendations to Director of Operations.
• Train and cross-train operators as required to perform to the schedule as outlined by Planning.
• Each Supervisor will have responsibility to be a member of various committees in collaboration with Director of Operations, designed to correct specific problems that have been addressed by the strategic plan, i.e., OSR/scrap reduction, material usage, safety.
• Measure operator efficiency and communicate progress/challenges utilizing coaching and training. Track attendance and recognize quality performance; coach each employee for success.
• Confer with appropriate Human Resources Representative on matters pertaining to employee/labor relations, benefits, etc.

Schedule:

• Measure the performance of the achieved schedule vs. the planned schedule by workcenter.
• Coordinate this with the Planning supervisor to assure accurate schedules are available and realistic.

Scrap:

• Assure that scrap is being reported by workcenter.
• Implement corrective action to reduce scrap by understanding all components that contribute to it.
• Analyze OSR's by workcenter. Collaborate with operators to correct problems. Coordinate with engineers, maintenance personnel to correct equipment, process problems.

Productivity:

• Review the performance of each operator on a regular basis. Assure that productivity levels are met.
• Utilize coaching, collaboration and training for job development.

Organize workcenters/departments:

• Organize each workcenter to achieve maximum efficiency. Conduct team meetings to brainstorm solutions to problems. Provide the required tools and other resources to achieve workcenter goals. Maintain good housekeeping disciplines.
• Reduce material handling of materials between departments and within departments.
• Develop methods to increase the efficiency of staging materials to be run at a workcenter - eliminate the time for searching for reels and/or materials.

Measurement:

• Manning/Labor Performance:
• Achieve 70% minimum earned labor efficiency.
• Reduce indirect labor as a result of improved material handling, less rework and utilization of work flexibility as outlined within the contract.
• Capacity/Load: Assure available capacity meets or exceeds actual capacity by workcenter
• Schedule:
• Measurement of late orders - due an operation plus five (5) days.
• On time delivery for Stock and Specials, as outlined by monthly forecast.

Cost Reduction:

• Eliminate downtime through efficient set-ups, material availability, and staging.
• Reduce downtime due to maintenance, i.e., schedule preventive maintenance.

These are the general duties required to fulfill the Production Supervisor job description, not a detailed description of all work required. New duties and responsibilities may be required to meet the changing demands of the business.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years minimum within a manufacturing environment, in a supervisory capacity. Direct wire and cable experience preferred. Strong mechanical and process aptitude and working knowledge of wire/cable machinery.
• 2 - 4 year degree in engineering of manufacturing technology preferred, but will consider equivalent proven work experience.
• Candidate must have strong conceptual and analytical skills, organization and problem solving ability, verbal and written communications skills and excellent interpersonal skills. Must be a team player and a developer of teamwork within areas supervised.