3rd Shift Production Supervisor at Electricfil Corporation – Elkmont, Alabama

Purpose of the Position: Responsible for supervision of the production floor on a daily basis and continuous improvement of production activities and outcomes.

Job Duties

Supervising

• Manages competencies in his/her team by developing skills through training.
• Ensuring all appropriate documentation for training is signed and understood by the responsible associates.
• Provides job assignments throughout the day.
• Evaluates the working relationship of his/her team.
• Maintains knowledge on all workstations and understands their sequence of operation.
• Escalates to quality, engineering, safety, maintenance, and upper management if needed.
• Responsible for coaching troubleshooting with team leader and associates prior to escalating an issue.
• Responsible for shift pass down with prior and following shift supervisors.

Auditing

• Responsible for auditing all first part validations and that each is completed, and all are conforming to specifications.
• Responsible for auditing the cleanliness of each station.
• Responsible of auditing near misses and/or accident action closure.

Resolution Issues

• Leads and participates in daily production status meetings.
• Uses problem solving tools to prevent or solve problems – participates in problem solving meetings where the team is involved.

Compliance to Customer Requirements

• Ensures adherence to production plan, able to reorganize and prioritize as needed.
• Ensure that all products are produced in compliance with latest customer requirements and quality expectations.

Achieving Plante Performance Goals

• Ensures quantity and quality of work performed by team members.
• Ensuring correctness of the daily data including scrap reported by Team Leads
• Maintains the productivity of the equipment under his/her supervisor and the correct inventory level of in-process materials.
• Responsible for sending End of Shift report with eh status of their shift to the production plan.

Continuous Improvement

• Participates in continuous improvement workshops.
• Maintains trends of results from continuous improvement actions.
• Assists quality representative in conducting scrap meetings.

Safety and Environmental

• Ensures that all employees are trained and compliant in the safe operation of equipment and plant-specific safety (ESD & PPE) and environmental concerns.
• In coordination with department managers, conducts monthly shift meetings with employees to cover various topics to include safety, quality, etc.
• Reports near misses and any accident (minor or emergent) written and orally when it occurs.

Employee Engagement

• Reports, addresses, and documents counseling pertaining to employee-related concerns, e.g. attendance, performance, etc. and communicates to department management and human resources as required.
• Welcomes new hires and new to shift.
• Requests additional team members with department management when required.
• Provides performance feedback with team members.
• Encourages and motivates employees in work performance, open/constructive communications, problem solving and communicates any employee improvement ideas.
• Daily documentation in the HRIS (human resource information system) for timecards, approval of PTO, and employee tracking of hours to minimize unnecessary overtime and absenteeism.

Authority:

• To supervise and make recommendations relating to production team members and/or processes and equipment. Make recommendations and communicate regularly with Production Manager and other company department and team members.
• All employees have a quality and safety responsibility; therefore, having the authority to stop work processes to correct quality and/or safety problems, or quarantine items in the appropriate designated area until the issues are resolved.
• The Production Supervisor has the authority to stop the production and the delivery of a product or a family of product if the quality of these products is suspect or compromised.

Accountabilities:

• Maintains production planning (PDP) file and scheduling of employees.
• Maintains main production and quality KPI
• Adhere to and implement everything in his/her power to achieve the Quality, Safety, and Environmental objectives and reduce the environmental impacts related to the activity of Electricfil Automotive.

Reporting:

• Analyze functional quality test data and propose potential failure modes to team.
• Methodical, capable of analyzing quality problems and providing a concise written summary to management.

Quality:

• Responsible to ensure the quality of the product is meeting the expected level.

Internal and/or external contacts:

• (Internally) Individual will interface with management & all levels of personnel within the organization.
• (Internally) Individual will work closely with others at EFC and EFI Automotive, locally and globally, as needed.
• (Externally) Individual will interface with customer and vendor representatives, including participation in customer audits and visits as requested.

Responsibilities

Job Requirements

Education and/or Experience:

• High School diploma or equivalent required. Degree in a technical field preferred.
• Five or more years of experience in the automotive industry or similar position required.
• Experience with problem solving tools (8Ds, Fishbone diagram, 5-Why, cause and effect data.
• Ability to conduct meetings and perform as a facilitator using English required.

Special knowledge (languages, IT, etc.):

• Communication/negotiation/meeting facilitation.
• Fluent in business English, IT literate.

Supplemental Requirements for Advancement:

• Additional training in supervision, coaching, employee motivation.
• Additional certifications (Allen Bradley PLC programming/troubleshooting).

Functional capacity requirements:

Note: In terms of an 8-hour workday, “Occasionally” equals 1% to 33%; “Frequently” equals 34% to 66%, and “Continuously” equals 67% to 100% of the time.

In an 8-hour workday the jobholder should be able to:

1. Occasionally sit.

1. Continuously stand and walk.

1. Occasionally bend/stoop, squat, twist, push/pull, kneel and crouch.

1. Occasionally reach above shoulder level.

1. Occasionally carry/lift up to fifty (50) pounds, as in a case of paper or a file box.

1. Continuously use his/her hands/fingers for the repetitive actions of simple and firm manipulation/grasping, as in operating a computer keyboard or touch tone telephone.

1. Occasionally use his/her head and neck in flexing and rotating.

1. Continuously be around manufacturing working conditions.

1. Continuously be in a climate (heated/air-conditioned) controlled environment.

1. Continuously be around moving machinery.

1. Work in an ESD controlled Environment