Production Supervisor - Berea, KY

Responsibilities:

1. Supervise and coach area and/or shift associates, dealing with areas of conflict and resolving problems to reduce conflict and ensure an environment of teamwork, respect and courtesy.
2. Direct the work activities of associates and assign tasks to ensure that the area or department achieves targeted production goals and costs and meets customer requirements.
3. Provide a safe work environment by ensuring safety training and communication take place; Respond to and address safety concerns raised by employees and ensure that safe work practices are followed so that company and plant targeted safety goals are met; this includes enforcement of PPE, LOTO, hearing conservation, hazard communication and housekeeping procedures.
4. Monitor and provide corrective action as needed in areas of shrinkage loss, line downtime, pattern change duration, cost controls, rework, new part startup cost, sample metrics and customer PPM requirements to ensure problems are identified and corrected as needed.
5. Participate on improvement teams as needed for safety rep teams, Breakthrough Teams, BAPP Steering Team/data collector teams to demonstrate commitment to area improvement and growth and encourage employee engagement.
6. Support (where needed) QS9000/TS16949 policies and procedures and implement corrective actions from audits conducted to help the company maintain its certification status and comply with good business practices.
7. Communicate regularly with management those production and employee problems that cannot be easily resolved at the supervisory level to properly escalate these to the appropriate level of management where corrective action can take place.
8. Evaluate associates and identify areas requiring additional training and provide for that training to ensure continued growth and development of the workforce to meet company goals; follow company disciplinary procedures for behavioral issues that training and coaching fail to improve.
9. The incumbent provides supervisory leadership, guidance and direction on a daily basis to the area/shift associates supervised to ensure that company goals are met in terms of safety, quality, productivity and cost. S/he must lead by example in following and enforcing company policies and procedures

This position requires a high school diploma and a minimum of six years of industrial experience with a general knowledge of glass fabrication processes; supervisory experience is a plus