Job Description

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett & Platt: https://leggett.com/history

Bedding

The world leader in bedding technology.

Leggett & Platt has been the driving force in bedding components technology since inventing the bedspring in 1885. Now, we own more mattress industry patents than anyone in the world.

Springs, foam, adjustable beds, machinery – our Bedding businesses design, produce, and supply innovative sleep solutions that help you rest comfortably.

Learn more about Bedding Components: L&P Bedding Group

Contribute to Sterling Steel safely producing high quality products at the lowest cost by

Effectively supervising employees and process in Rod Mill Finishing End

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Provide daily supervision of employees in Finishing End
• Enforce rotation of employees in Finishing Attendant positions
• Participate in creation of training for Finishing End employees
• Educate employees on what we do as well as how and why we do it
• Provide ongoing training & coaching of current and new finishing end employees
• Document employee performance issues
• Administer employee discipline
• Participate in Union employee grievance procedures

• Monitor processes that affect timeliness of operation and quality of product
• Oversee coil staging
• Determine which cars are to be loaded first
• Assure coils are properly identified
• Verify correct number of coils are loaded into cars
• Verify proper parameters are set at heath/batch changes
• Assist maintenance with troubleshooting and repairs
• Make decisions such as what to do about quality issues, whether to scrap or not, etc.
• Schedule rework and verify it is addressed in the shift it was made
• Take samples to lab or assign appropriate employees to do so
• Complete required reports

• Report operational issues to General Manager & Roller in a timely manner
• Provide effective communication between Mill and Finishing End
• Share information with other Finishing End Supervisor at beginning/end of each shift
• Create and send reports

• Fill in for Shift Supervisor and Shipping Supervisor as needed
• Assist Rod Mill General Supervisor & General Manager as directed
• Perform fire watch duties when scheduled

• Audit and update SJPs
• Verify that all SJPs and Safety processes are followed
• Enforce SSC Work Rules and Policies consistently
• Champion and participate in ECO, QMS & Continuous Improvement initiatives

• Participate in training from HR, Rod Manager, Lab, Roller, and other supervisors
• Take initiative to learn more about Rod Mill & Shipping processes
• Comply with and enforce all SSC Safety rules

• All other duties as assigned

Experience/Education/Knowledge:

• General knowledge of entire SSC Rod Mill process
• Extensive understanding of Sterling Steel’s Rod Mill Finishing End & Shipping processes
• Familiarity with LPCS
• Basic Outlook skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn and retain new information
• Previous leadership experience helpful

Physical Demands:

• Mobility to move to any area of Rod Mill including over uneven surfaces, up/down stairs and ladders
• Strength and stamina to remain on feet for majority of 12-hour shifts
• Vision to monitor production in person and on monitors
• Dexterity to utilize computer and other office machinery
• Lift up to 50 pounds occasionally

Tool/Machines/Equipment Used:

• Rod Mill Machines
• Quality Machines
• Mobile Equipment
• Tools
• Computer

What to Do Next

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Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture, processes and practices promote equal opportunity for all. Join us!

We welcome and encourage all applicants to apply. We’d love the opportunity to consider you.

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