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Position Title: Production Supervisor

Location: Shelbyville, Kentucky

Job Overview and key duties (agile)

Production Supervisor

Reporting to OPS Manager this is a demanding role for an ambitious and dynamic professional with drive, determination, and the desire to work in a highly commercial and growth-focused environment

The successful candidate will:

Purpose: Provides indirect/direct supervision over the shift operators and over a group of cells or machines to meet daily safety, quality, and production targets.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Train and coach production line employees.
• Ensures solid two-way communication amongst team and with other management.
• Oversee production start-ups, shutdowns, and changeovers.
• Conduct daily shift meetings.
• Responsible for meeting shift production goals.
• Responsible for quality control and adjust as necessary during shifts to ensure high quality product.
• Operate within defined procedures and Job Safety requirements.
• Safe housekeeping standards are always maintained to ensure a clean and safe working area.
• Responsible for providing a daily reporting to oncoming supervision.
• Ensures that all production reports; purchase requisitions; and accident/incident reports are prepared on the correct forms and are properly completed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Leadership Requirements:

• Train and coach production line employees.
• Responsible for employee shift schedule to include workstation assignments/rotations, training, vacations, breaks, overtime assignment, back-up for absent, and shift rotations.
• Lead in clean-up of manufacturing areas.
• Ensures that direct report(s) are adequately trained, equipped, and motivated so that the department responsibilities and goals can be accomplished in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Communicates regularly with all direct report(s), both individually and as a team (if applicable), to ensure good two-way communication concerning progress and other issues.
• Complies with the Company’s Human Resources policies and procedures and promotes the awareness of and compliance with these policies.

Key Competencies:

• Ability to exhibit sound judgement and response in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Conveys information in a clear manner; ensures that others understand instructions or other information that is communicated.
• Strong ability to problem-solve and evaluate priorities.

Specific Skills/Knowledge:

• Safety and Quality Standard
• Basic math skills
• Forklift operations.
• Basic mechanical skills
• General computer skills
• Advanced computer skills
• Supervisory/Leadership Skills
• Injection molding

Physical Demands and Work Environment

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 position, the employee will be required to perform physical exertion, as necessary. Also, will regularly be required to sit, stand, walk, kneel, and frequently bend and move about the facility.

Work Schedule

• 12 -hour Shifts- 7:00pm-7:30am Nights, every other weekend required.
• Work Environment
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee continually works near moving mechanical parts.
• The buildings are heated during the winter, but conditions could be cold in the winter & hot during the summer.