The 2nd Shift Supervisor ensures the timely production of products that meet or exceed company safety, quality, efficiency, and cost performance.  Provides leadership for the implementation and adherence of company safety, health, and environmental policies and standards.  Ensures that associates have the competence and commitment needed to meet job requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Production

• Reviews production schedule with planning and assigns the required number of employees to tasks according to daily requirements, task time, and work availability.
• Verifies work procedures and bills of material against work orders to ensure product meets quality standards.
• Responsible for training employees on all required training topics.  Trains new employees, coach and mentor existing employees, and cross-trains employees as needed.
• Ensure production lines are producing at the required production standard rates.
• Ensure products are produced to specifications and QC checks are being performed.
• Develop and update written procedures for each task.  Ensures employees follow the written procedures.
• Implement required manufacturing process changes.
• Makes recommendations for changes to increase efficiency, quality, and reduce costs.
• Responsible for production inventory accuracy, periodical physical counts, and adjustment requests.
• Control and analyze time and production records for the various production lines
• Understanding of lean manufacturing a plus

Management/Leadership

• Promotes the company culture and sets the example for respectful leadership and cooperation.
• Works with HR to maintain adequate staffing levels in the area.
• Define associate’s work schedule and control overtime. Control employee attendance and work schedule compliance.  Authorize PTO requests.
• Perform routine administrative controls and activities.  Complete periodical employee’s performance review.

Industrial Safety, Health and Environmental

• Ensures implementation and adherence of the company’s safety policies and procedures.  Controls the availability of SDS’s on the production floor.  Maintains safety and productivity of employees and security of the facility.
• Ensure that all employees wear required PPE.
• Responsible for conducting monthly safety meetings.  Ensures that all incidents are reported.
• Ensure cleanliness and order of the production areas.
• Ensures proper disposal/recycling of waste stream materials such as empty drums, cardboard, pallets, plastic, residual oils, etc.

Supervises a total of 30+ production workers.

Qualifications, Education and/or Experience

• Associates degree required (Bachelor degree preferred)
• 3-5 years experience as production/manufacturing supervisor
• Proficiency in inventory management (1-3 years experience)
• Prior experience in lean assembly preferred
• Intermediate knowledge of MRP software; SAP, Oracle, Sage, etc
• Excellent interpersonal, writing, speaking, coordinating, and organizational skills.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak Spanish and English proficiently
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Must be a team player with ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks and follow up on requests
• Must be able to perform well under pressure

Physical Demand

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to operate a computer and calculator, and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth percept

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