Position Summary

Accountable for maintaining a safe, productive, efficient, quality-oriented work atmosphere during their assigned shifts operation along with ensuring positive, fair and equitable treatment for all employees.

Primary Functions:

• Instructs employees in safe operating procedures and plant conduct and holds them accountable to following these instructions and policies. Identifies safety hazards and takes appropriate steps to control them.
• Maintains enforcement of and compliance with policy and procedures to ensure that the results conform to planned and/or desired results and to assure a safe working environment is maintained.
• Ensure fair and equitable treatment of all employees by coordinating with other supervisors, managers, and departments to ensure consistency in the manufacturing operation.
• Ensures equitable distribution of work assignments and prioritization of same for subordinates along with follow through until completion.
• Responsible for the ongoing and timely assessment and follow-through on employee performance management. This includes consulting with Human Resources when necessary, ensuring proper documentation, completing informal and formal performance review discussions, providing coaching and disciplinary measures when necessary, and ensuring proper follow-up and resolution to issues or concerns.
• Ensures shift production goals and customer expectations are met or exceeded by monitoring quality, productivity, and other performance indicators during shift.
• Trains and develops shift personnel to maximize efficiency.
• Provide timely submission of reports and miscellaneous documentation as required by policy and procedure and/or requested by management.
• Manage the production floor including timely and efficient mold set-ups and/or changes, resource utilization, material efficiencies and documented quality evaluations to ensure that maximum capabilities are met.
• Ensure accurate, up-to-date and complete cycle/set-up sheets and road maps are maintained at each machine for the specific job currently running and proper filing and distribution of these sheets when the job is completed.
• Ensure adequate supplies are on hand to ensure smooth and efficient operations. Order/request additional supplies as needed.
• Provide timely and detailed information “pass-on” to other supervisors, managers and departments, detailing problems and corrective actions that were taken during their shift’s hours of operation along with detailed production/KPI reporting and attendance management.
• Troubleshoots and evaluates the molding process within documented specifications, making appropriate adjustments when needed to assure standards are maintained.