Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift
Gateway Recruiting
- La Crosse, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for overall performance of assigned work group, including safety, quality, cost, and output schedule performance.
- Supervises the activities of production or plant associates to achieve objectives with regard to quality, cost and time.
- Evaluates the performance of associates and completes necessary reports.
- Recommends merit increases and training/development needs.
- Supervises the utilization of materials to assure an appropriate amount of parts are available to maintain smooth production flow; identifies wasteful practices and methods; reports any problems/concerns with viable solutions to the Manager, Production; and, reports suggestions recommended by associates for procedure change, etc.
- Actively support plant programs and goals, including but not limited to: units per man hour, safety and 5S, quality, customer availability, TAKT attainment, and cost as measured by overall plant performance.
- Identify opportunities for improvement; implement improvement plans, lead daily problem-solving activities within teams for process improvements, develop department budgets and ensure they are to plan.
- Provide effective associate relations within manufacturing by ensuring that employment practices are fair and consistent.
- Ensure adherence to standard work, including plant work rules, collective bargaining agreement and payroll compliance (if applicable)
- Implement plant wide communication plans and initiatives with employees in their area of responsibility.
- Serve as primary communication vehicle between leadership team and production employee.
- Manufacturing experience required; Supervisory experience is preferred.
- Must possess sound interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Excellent problem solving and conflict management skills.
- Lean or Six Sigma experience is preferred.
- This is a safety sensitive role. The hours are roughly 4:00pm-2:30am Monday-Thursday.