Production Supervisor

Masis Professional Group is recruiting for a Production Supervisor (3rd Shift) on behalf of our client located in New Albany, OH. This is a direct hire opportunity offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

Job Responsibilities of the Production Supervisor:

Insures a safe work environment by communicating safety requirements, auditing, tracking and providing feedback and corrective actions to employees and management. Participate in safety meetings/evaluations.

Supervises teams of employees in a process environment in the manufacturing of candles and home fragrance products.

Works with planning and purchasing as well as program management to understand upcoming work. Identifies processes needed and staffing as well as resource loading.

Will be expected to be a team member of the supervisory and management staff; chairing meetings, offering opinions, supporting initiatives and treating co-workers with respect.

Will establish and/or participate in the creation of schedules and insure timely completion of commitments. Will be responsible for early detection of barriers to achieving schedule and providing work arounds and solutions. Will establish priorities; monitor progress; revise production schedules; resolve problems and report results on shift production.

Work with engineering to establish efficiency standards and measures performance to targets, tracks, reports, conducts root cause analysis, and corrective actions to maintain and improve efficiencies. Will be challenged with improving efficiencies of line production.

Will organize and conduct skills assessments and coordinate training to promote learning and address gaps in capabilities. Cross training will be a key component.

·Will be accountable for the accurate accounting of materials while in the care of manufacturing and the timely return of those materials to stores if not consumed in the manufacturing process.

Will collect data, craft metrics, monitor trends and report to management on the health and well-being of manufacturing.

Will work with the various coordinators and departments to ensure smooth start-ups and shut downs.

Will be responsible for conducting carry over meetings between shifts to ensure critical and pertinent information is passed between shifts.

Will be responsible to communicate equipment issues to maintenance and monitor timely completions of repairs and improvements.

Will be accountable for work order closers to ensure timely accounting of and reporting and close out of production work orders.

Required Qualifications of the Production Supervisor:

3-5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications of the Production Supervisor:

Associate’s degree in Production Management or Business Administration.

Mathematical Skills – Understanding of basic math concepts. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages and ratios.

Computer Skills – Solid proficiency in use of PC’s/information systems as a management tool. PC skills to include at minimum Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

Not afraid to adopt a hands-on approach and learn (and perfect) assembly techniques.

Understands capacity planning and has a vision for plant layout and workflow.

Experience with 5S, poke-yoke implementation and Kaizen events.

If interested, please submit your resume to be considered for this position.