Manufacturing Production Shift Supervisor at Sun Fiber – Lancaster, South Carolina

Production Shift Supervisor Job Purpose: The production shift supervisor is responsible for managing shift employees within a specified manufacturing department. This position plans and assigns work, implements policies and procedures, and recommends improvements in production methods, equipment, operating procedures and working conditions.

Production Shift Supervisor Job Duties:

• Manage the activities of the production floor, under the direction of the business unit manager and follow established procedures and approved processes.
• Supervise departmental production operations.
• Strictly follow the process parameters specified by the process engineers.
• Organize the team to meet production targets per production schedule.
• Ensure the products meet quality standards.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate departmental shift activities to fulfill sales orders, meet inventory requirements, and deliver manufactured products in a timely fashion.
• Monitor the condition of production equipment, coordinate repairs with maintenance technicians.
• Ensure the completion of the operators' portion of equipment maintenance as specified by the maintenance department.
• Complete and provide daily reports regarding Safety, Quality, product quantity and types.
• Cooperating with HR and the production manager to train, monitor, develop and discipline team members.
• Maintain a clean and organized production floor.
• Accept and complete any other relevant tasks assigned by the Company.

Education / Training:

• Associate Degree required
• Bachelor's Degree highly preferred
• 5 - 7 Years of experience within a manufacturing environment required
• 3 – 5 Years previous supervisory experience strongly preferred

Skills / Qualifications:

• Leadership
• Strong ethics
• Safety conscience
• Organizational skills
• Project management.

Travel Required

• Low (0 - 10%)

Physical Requirements / Environmental Conditions

• Ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• This job is performed under some temperature extremes, elevated platforms, and some hazardous conditions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.

Department

• Production

Reports to

• Assistant Production Manager

FLSA Status

• Exempt

Direct Reports

• Shift Production Department Associates