Production Supervisor / Group Leader

Job Details

Description

Purpose:

The Production Supervisor is responsible for leading daily activities of production, supervision, training, and inventory oversight. The Production Manager will provide leadership support through ensuring continued performance standards are met.

Essential Job Functions

• Works closely with the Director of Operations to oversee operations ensuring the department's ability to perform to standards and meet or exceed its production needs.
• Maintains control of inventory levels and warehousing of cumulative product valued at over $500,000. Communicates with necessary groups to ensure inventory is controlled at all times.
• Monitors and authorizes overtime as necessary to meet production schedules.
• Works with staffing agencies to evaluate, select, and coordinate onboarding of temporary employees.
• Manages the staffing and performance of temporary employees, and works closely with the staffing companies on needs.
• Responsible for the daily oversight of employee safety, including personal protective equipment (PPE), safe practices, and policy management.
• Promotes and demonstrates a Lean culture of continuous improvements.
• Trains new employees on processes and procedures.
• Assists in handling employee disciplinary issues and completes performance reviews.
  
  

Required Qualifications

Education, Training and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• 5 or more years of management or leadership experience in a production setting.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Requires high degree of initiative, independent judgement, and responsibility.
• Demonstrates problem-solving skills necessary to troubleshoot production issues.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and the use of the internet.
  
  

Certification, Licenses, Registrations

None.

Preferred Qualifications

None.

Physical Demands

Nature of work requires an ability to operate standard equipment in a production environment. Requires ability to communicate and exchange information, collect, compile and prepare work documents, set-up and maintain work files. Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs. independently. May require evening and weekend hours as business needs demand.

Working Conditions

Work performed in a manufacturing and general office environment.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of JB Products, a FPC International, Inc. company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder’s responsibility.