Job Description

The Production Supervisor is an important member of the plant leadership team and is responsible for ensuring that production, quality and safety goals are met. The incumbent will lead a team of manufacturing associates in a 24 hour per day, 7 day a week operation, and will use strong communication and leadership skills to achieve plant goals.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, monitor, and mentor a team of machine operators on multiple shifts to meet specific safety, quality, productivity, and delivery goals.
• Responsible for consistently applying policies, rules and the discipline process, and facilitating teamwork between and within process work cells.
• Lead the successful operation of the facility while making decisions related to conditions as they occur such as safety, productivity, maintenance, material availability, and schedule compliance to ensure maximum plant utilization and productivity.
• Meet EHS objectives and actively drive the safety culture at AFL by participating in the Observation Based Safety process, conduct safety audits, interact and engage with shift associates on the appropriate knowledge and use of Safe Work Instructions.
• Schedule compliance in meeting orders being processed throughout the plant.
• Define, measure, monitor, and share process performance metrics with individual operators and identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Meet requirements of the operations quality, efficiency and material utilization.

Personal Qualities

• Organization – excellent ability to multitask and set priorities.
• Attitude – maintains a positive demeanor while working on multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Teamwork – develops relationships across departments; comfortable in a leadership position.
• Strong interpersonal and communication (listening, verbal, and written) skills; comfortable presenting information in a team setting; able to interact at all levels of the organization.
• Biased towards action and results in order to achieve goals.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Strong math skills; ability to analyze problems and justify decisions.
• Able to support weekend and night shift operations.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience supervising in a lean manufacturing environment.
• Specific Training of basic supervisory skills such as Leadership, Motivation, Conflict Resolution, Time Management, and EEOC compliance is preferred.
• Able to execute Oracle WIP transactions and solve basic issues encountered in production.
• Experienced user of MS Outlook and Office (Excel and Word). Able to create well formatted documents in Excel and Word

Working Conditions

• Non-climate controlled manufacturing environment. Some evening and weekend work is required.
  

Minimum Education

• Associates Degree, or equivalent work experience