Production Supervisor
Location: Sedalia, MO 65301
Pay: $35.10 per hour
Schedule: Third shift, 12-hour overnight shifts, 6:00 p.m.–6:00 a.m., on a 2-2-3 schedule
Position Summary
The Production Supervisor leads and develops a manufacturing team to meet safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity goals. This role promotes a safety-first culture, supports employee growth, ensures production commitments are met, and leads continuous improvement across the operation.
Key Responsibilities
Safety
- Model safe work practices and uphold all safety responsibilities.
- Ensure employees complete required safety training.
- Lead monthly team safety activities, including near-miss reporting, safe work permits, safety meetings, pre-shift safety inspections, and departmental inspections.
- Participate in safety incident investigations and lead root cause analysis to help prevent recurrence.
- Monitor and enforce facility and corporate policies and procedures.
Customer Satisfaction and Quality
- Communicate customer expectations throughout the Operations Department and ensure products meet required standards.
- Support timely, accurate production to schedule to meet or exceed delivery commitments.
- Ensure operational procedures are followed and quality metrics meet customer requirements.
- Lead root cause analysis on quality issues, involving operators and relevant stakeholders.
- Train and coach operators in problem-solving skills.
Team Leadership and Development
- Engage team members in the success of the business and in improvements to safety, quality, cost, and productivity.
- Provide regular, candid feedback on expectations and performance, and take appropriate action to support improvement.
- Invest in employees’ growth and development.
- Document and implement corrective action when performance issues arise.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure team members receive required training and maintain job certifications.
- Foster strong working relationships and communication built on respect, integrity, accountability, innovation, candor, and collaboration.
- Communicate critical plant performance metrics to the team each day.
Operations Management
- Work with operating departments to align on capacity specifications for quality, availability, and performance.
- Analyze and regularly communicate output data to the Leader.
- Identify potential problems early and take proactive action.
- Guide team members in monitoring key process variables and maintaining critical product and equipment information.
- Partner with stakeholders to resolve quality issues promptly.
- Use resources effectively to meet cost targets.
- Work with Maintenance to support efficient plant equipment operation.
- Verify time and attendance reports to help ensure production needs are met.
Continuous Improvement
- Use standard work to reduce variation and waste.
- Lead focused improvement activities to improve process capability and efficiency, reduce costs, and eliminate waste.
- Partner with stakeholders to optimize processes and advance continuous improvement initiatives.
- Participate in and lead 6S events across plant work areas.
- Lead product qualification efforts with support from key stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED.
- Three years of experience leading or supervising.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering.
- Leadership or supervisory experience in an industrial or manufacturing setting.
- Experience troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, electronic controls, and processes.
- Six Sigma Green Belt and continuous improvement experience.
- Strong mechanical aptitude.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Computer literacy, including MRP systems such as SAP, Microsoft Office Suite, and Kronos.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work extended or flexible hours.
- Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks and projects.
- Logical troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
- Ability to build team alignment, coach and guide others toward results, and lead through safety and organizational vision.
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