Job Description

Job Location: Fleischer - Berkeley, MO 63134
Job Category: ManufacturingJOB SUMMARY:
Supervises Berkeley production personnel at all stages of daily production. Ensures all machinery is in working order and that all production employees have been formally trained for performing their daily routine duties. Ensure employees are always using the proper PPE. Empower employees by providing the necessary visual aids needed for optimal productivity and potential opportunity. Responsible for the overall efficiency of the production department.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leads production team by demonstrating company values with utmost respect, dignity, and candor.
- Ensures employees are provided a safe work environment and work in a safe manner.
- Empowers team to develop skills and take on more responsibility.
- Follows all pertinent LHB policies, procedures, and processes
- Prioritizing production orders
- Assembling production resources to meet production demand.
- Ensure all production employees have the proper training applicable to their job duties.
- Closely monitoring production operations to ensure the safety, quality, and production efficiencies are being met.
- Ensure all workstations, materials, and personnel are in place and prepared for the production run.
- Acts in a timely manner to communicate and assist in correcting production problems that may arise and notifies the production manager of any irregularities or delays in production.
- Communicates with Purchasing Agent and/or Supply Chain Manager to ensure all materials are provided and ready to meet the production schedule.
- Completes required forms and production records and return completed production order to the production manager for review.
- Maintains required labor reporting by ensuring all direct labor employees are being entered into and out of Insight Works during production runs.
- Reviews/corrects Time Off/Vacation requests in PayCom.
- Assures that all necessary documentation for raw materials, labeling, and packaging components are correct, and the physical materials have been checked by the quality department before materials are moved to a workstation.
- Ensures that direct labor resources are in line with workload.
- Conducts one on one annual performance reviews for direct reports.
- Teams with maintenance department for any necessary service, such as mechanical, to maintain line operations.
- Teams with quality and direct labor reports to ensure that all coding, components, and machinery is setup for the production run.
- Works with quality to ensure that all inspections are performed and filed on a regular monthly basis.
- Trains direct labor personnel to conduct weekly hazardous waste storage inspection.
- Documents and communicates the weekly hazardous waste storage inspections.
- Performing disciplinary write-ups and incident reports when necessary.
- Regularly reviews and updates SharePoint production schedule.
- Perform daily HUDDLE for production personal each morning.
- May assume temporary lead role when Production Manager is absent.
- Other duties as assigned.

QualificationsREQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES/KNOWLEDGE:
- - Strong Supervisory
- - Communications
- - Team building/Team Empowerment
- - Team Task/Relationship Leadership
- - ISO Quality Systems
- - Lean, 5s, Six Sigma, and Good Manufacturing Practices
- - Decision making
- - Strong computer skills
- - Strong math skills
- - Equipment operation and adjustment skills
- - Chemical Handling
- - Must be organized and detail oriented
- - General working knowledge of manufacturing and warehouse operations
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Five years manufacturing experience.
- Two years supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Directly supervises the production team while communicating and working with all departments and managers within the facility to ensure the safety, quality, and production efficiency of the facility.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATION:
- Process safety management, per 29 crf 1910.119
- Hazardous waste management procedures, per 40 cfr 265.16
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.
- Lifting up to 50 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Observes and follows safety regulations and displays the ability to always perform job functions in a safe manner.
- Office and manufacturing facility.
- Areas of the plant may be extremely hot or cold, depending on weather conditions.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.
Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.
All activities, demands, conditions and requirements are linked to essential job functions.