Plant Supervisor

The Plant Supervisor is responsible for front-line leadership in day-to-day operations of a designated production team, providing guidance and coaching to team members to foster success. This includes ensuring safety, quality, efficiencies, and meeting customer expectations while motivating the team and supporting their professional development.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and training to accomplish production objectives to all employees for Safety, Quality, Production, and Maintenance.
• Supervise production activities to ensure production goals/objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Works with operations team to ensure vacancies are covered for any planned/unplanned absences.
• Monitors shift performance for safety, quality, and production standards.
• Provides production data accurately into system in order to measure and monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) around efficiencies, downtime, inventory and overall production.
• Leads employee start-up meetings.
• Works with other team members to control and improve efficiencies, minimize labor overtime, downtime and repair expenses. Implements cost effective systems around this as necessary.
• Promotes shop floor organization, plant housekeeping with active participation from employees and utilizing lean techniques such as 5S, Kaizen, 7 wastes and TPM.
• Acts as first point of contact for operators regarding mechanical failure or production issues; Directs maintenance employees to troubleshoot mechanical problems and perform preventative maintenance. Overcome challenges and issues preventing the team from accomplishing its goals.
• Participate in conjunction with the Plant Manager in capital improvement or process optimization projects related to the reconditioning line.
• Provides active site surveillance to ensure safety compliance.
• Responsible for training new employees on all areas of production floor.
• Manage inventory of PPE and MRO items for the plant.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years Plant Supervisory experience within an industrial production setting or manufacturing environment. An equivalent combination of education and experience is an asset.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations management, or equivalent experience.
• Previous experience working in a Lean environment; Embraces continuous improvement.
• Strong organizational skills with experience enforcing and maintaining company policy and programs on the plant floor.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Self-directed team player.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.