Production Supervisor at VERUS AEROSPACE FINANCE INC – Tacoma, Washington

Position Summary

Responsible for leading and developing people, processes and systems that ensure the highest safety, quality, productivity, and efficiency standards are achieved by applying Lean Manufacturing principles and tools.

• Workforce is safe and incident-free
• Continuous Improvement culture is developed and fostered
• Standard Work is in place for all processes
• Employees are meeting established Workplace Expectations
• Customer schedules and quality requirements are met
• First Pass Yields > 98%
• Budget and productivity goals and objectives are met

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies Lean Manufacturing principles and tools to improve all aspects of safety, quality, service and cost.
• Drive innovation and change by communicating on key business initiatives and promoting employee engagement and involvement.
• Establish routine work practices and audits to ensure continuous improvement to 5S level.
• Ensure Standard Work is established and maintained for all processes.
• Develop, train and involve employees in maintaining and improving safety, efficiency, productivity, quality, cooperation and morale.
• Ensure employees are trained to do their work and their training is documented. Execute cross-training and personal development strategies for direct reports.
• Model Workplace Expectations and coach employees to meet the same level of expectations in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
• Actively promotes and supports a safe work environment and ensures all employees work in a safe manner.
• Ensures all employees are properly trained in all safety procedures.
• Conducts accident investigation/root cause analysis for all incidents and accidents.
• Meet quality objectives by ensuring compliance to quality systems.
• Investigate root cause(s) of non-conformances, identify and execute corrective actions by expected completion date(s).
• Plan, organize and supervise all shift operations in accordance with production schedules. Maintain status of production, redeploy resources as required. Set and communicates expectations for daily production.
• Work closely with cross-functional groups to develop continuous improvement plans (i.e. engineering, programming, maintenance and quality) in order to achieve plant and work cell objectives.
• Ensures that throughput goals are attained and budget criteria is met or surpassed.

Position Requirements

• Ability to facilitate team problem solving, and communicate both orally and in writing.
• Working knowledge across all machining operations.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, summarize, and maintain information.
• Demonstrated ability to plan/organize/prioritize work for self’/others.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain effective interpersonal relations.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute effectively to a team effort.
• Ability to find, analyze, and solve problems.
• Ability to make/implement effective decisions.
• Proficiency in math, blueprint reading and geometric tolerancing
• Ability to effectively read, write and verbally communicate in English
• Bachelors of Science degree preferred. High school plus college level courses or equivalent training in manufacturing, machining, or equivalent required.
• Three to five years’ leadership experience in related aerospace production operations.
• Experienced Journey Machinist preferred.
• Must have worked with shop metrics, efficiency, productivity, utilization, and continuous improvement projects
• Must be able to accurately forecast labor needs based on current work loads