Production Supervisor

Job Overview:

We are looking for an individual who strives to make a difference and knows well LEAN Manufacturing instruments and ready to implement them in a dynamic production team. Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will lead a production team and the efficient execution of the production schedule. This position is responsible for utilizing a communications platform to facilitate improvements. As a Production Supervisor your job will include scheduling personnel to ensure meeting or exceeding established production targets. Your objective is to work with your team to minimize equipment downtime, improve operations reliability and maximize productivity. Furthermore, support the reduction of waste and unnecessary time losses, to facilitate the overall reduction of operating costs. Your technical production expertise, leadership and guidance will be an asset to the operations and maintenance team as they work to improve overall production reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with Plant processes, Policies, and Standard Operating Procedures.

• Conducting daily safety toolbox meetings, with emphasis placed on Safety compliance. Maintaining a safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel to ensure safety compliance and housekeeping.

• Monitoring the quality of the product. Immediately addressing and reporting any issues to the Operators, Quality Techs, and Quality Manager.
• Prioritizing first pass quality through operator ownership of quality and limiting run time during a quality issue to reduce the number of rejects and/or holds.

• Maintaining workflow by monitoring steps of the process; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources.

• Trouble-shooting problem areas when possible, involving others such as Operators and Maintenance Crew.

• Effectively communicating to the crew, the product schedule, product speed and any associated changes and their associated run rates, productivity, and attainment targets.

• Ensuring all operators have performed their pre-planning for production and check lists performed at each work station at start-up, during production and shutdown.

• Organizing the crew so that all work stations and breaks covered following continuous production model.

• Tasking the crew with alternative duties during breakdown or material shortages to maximize the efficiency of labour resources. Ensuring every employee has a secondary responsibility.

• Ensuring effective operation of equipment, calling for repairs, as required to prevent down time and evaluating equipment function to ensure equipment efficiency.

• Providing detailed Break Down Reports to capture down time minutes per occurrence and the associated issue, if possible, the root cause.

• Coaching, and facilitating performance Management actions to employees as required.

• Maintaining LEAN procedures in the department, including 5S, autonomous maintenance, SOP compliance, continious improvement, value-driven approach

• Monitoring progress of new hires – taking responsibility for training effectiveness

• Collaborating with other Departments, Safety, Maintenance, Quality and Warehouse to ensure alignment of objectives and any relevant issues.

• Attends daily and weekly staff meetings to review Production Results and Improvement opportunities.

• Supports maintenance days with the production team performing housekeeping and soft maintenance associated duties.

• Reduce waste of raw material when and where possible following LEAN concepts.

• Submitting production results and shift report before leaving each shift.

• Other tasks as required to meet our Production objectives.

Position Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years experience Supervising Teams in a Manufacturing environment,
• Prior Maintenance/ industrial mechanic background is an asset.
• Strong skills in technical data analysis, predicting trends based on available data to ensure downtime is minimized and reliability of the equipment is optimized is considered an asset.
• You are detailed, rigidly goal-oriented but flexible with approach, People love you, but listen to you and respect your leadership!
• You possess strong values related to Safety leadership and Safety programs. Experience and knowledge related to Quality right first-time concept and Quality programs.
• Your experience is relevant to make equipment inspections with trades and/or operations to evaluate the assets, including the support of root cause analysis.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with other departments, Safety, Quality, Maintenance and Warehouse.
• You possess strong analytical, interpersonal, organizational and communication (verbal and written) skills.

• Coaching and Leading the team by example. Working with people to develop their skills to create hybrid talent. Must be able to have difficult conversations and maintaining composure. You are organized and keep a detailed log of events and conversations for performance management purposes and recognition. Familiar with metrics and Key Performance Indicators to illustrate production performance. Excellent troubleshooting talent working with teams to engage and empower for self reliance. Ability to exercise independent judgement in dealing with technical and personnel matters. You are computer savvy and hold practical working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Work, Excel, Power point). Other software systems are considered an asset. Must have strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work daily in a dynamic and demanding fast-paced environment.

• Experience working in a Unionized environment considered an asset.
• Shift Schedule 8-12 hours

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $23.00-$28.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Night shift

Work Location: In person