3rd Shift Production Supervisor

Company: Cooper Standard
Location: Mount Sterling
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

Position Summary:Ensure the achievement of the unit's safety, production, quality, and continuous improvement goals through adequate planning, organization, coordination and control of its human and technical resources and materials.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
• Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
• Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
• Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
• Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
• Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
• Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
• Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
• Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
• Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
• Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
• Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
• Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
• Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
• Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
• Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
• Participate in or lead safety-related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
• Ensure that HSE legal and management system requirements for work areas are met.
• May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
  Education and Qualifications:
  • Four-year degree or two-year degree in pursuit of a four-year degree with two to four years in supervision and / or more than 3 years practical experience in supervision / management
  • Ability to identify and resolve day to day technical and operational problems.
  • Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
  • Computer competency required, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
  • Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
  • Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.
    Work Environment/Work Conditions:
    • Professional Office Environment
    • Must wear proper personal protection equipment while on manufacturing floor
    • Travel to manufacturing facilities or customer locations when required
    • Equipment used requires proper training on the potential for and avoidance of injury

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