Production Supervisor – Night Shift
Permanent On-site | Kitchener, Ontario
Description
Role Purpose:
Responsible for ensuring that the shift operates with a safety focus culture, that quality targets and the production schedule are met. Maximize plant efficiency and meet customer requirements, including cycle times, appropriate set-up times and press operator ratios.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for supervision of all hourly plant employees on night shift, including employee coaching, discipline and assignment of work.
- Responsible for ensuring all employees receive the necessary training required to effectively perform their duties.
- Responsible for decision-making and problem-solving on mechanical or other technical issues during night shift.
- Participate in production troubleshooting with lead hands and technicians, ensure cycle times are met; responsible for decision making and problem solving on any technical or scheduling issues and coordinating with other shifts to ensure good communication.
- Responsible to implementing Lean Manufacturing initiatives in the production area.
- Continuous improvement.
- Scrap reduction.
- Variation reduction.
- 5Y or similar problem solving process to recurring production defects to identify and eliminate root causes.
- Promote and lead Kaizen and 5S initiatives.
- Responsible for ensuring quality standards are met according to the quality management system and TS16949 requirements.
- Responsible for ensuring a safe work environment for all employees, including providing instruction on safe operations, necessary personal protective equipment and good housekeeping.
- Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of all production paperwork.
- Responsible for overseeing any stock movements and shipping duties to maintain accurate inventory levels.
- All other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Supervisory experience in automotive manufacturing is critical to be successful in this role.
- Proven experience in the creation of and maintaining a safety focused workplace.
- Knowledge of EPP foam processing or injection moulding processing (using Kurtz or Teubert equipment) preferred.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to coach and train employees to excel.
- Understanding of customer requirements and quality systems within the automotive and packaging marketplace.
- Good understanding of collective labour agreements. Supervisory experience in a unionized plant is preferred.
- Well-developed computer skills with the ability to use the computer system as an effective tool for tracking orders and maintaining accurate inventory and production records with Excel.
- Excellent organizational and verbal skills and above average written communication skills.
- Excellent technical skills and the ability to troubleshoot the prefoaming, set-up, cycling and shapemoulding processes.
- Desire to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
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