Shift Supervisor (B Shift and Flex)

Summary of Position

The Shift Supervisor directly supervises and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators.

Essential Functions

• Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
• Keep records of employees' attendance and hours worked.
• Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, or fabricators.
• Conduct employee training in equipment operations or work and safety procedures, or assign employee training to experienced workers.
• Evaluate employee performance.
• Confer with management or subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
• Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
• Define success on each responsible shift (i.e. understand earned hours needs, achieve required earned hours, understand and achieve required mold sets per schedule).
• Coordinate with Mold Setters and Material Handler shift schedule and timing of mold changes.
• Flex labor as needed per what is happening on the mfg. floor (i.e. flex labor down if job(s) cannot be run).
• Provide support and direction to molding setters, Press Operators, and other production shift employees.
• Setup Production Job Including but not limited too.
• Print the work order and review for assembly secondary operations.

• Pull quality books, first article, visual boards, and trim samples. Ensure proper setup at the work center.
• After a new tool is set, move the work order to the number one position in IQMS.
• Ensure first piece is dimensionally correct and matches first article.
• Print labels for work order.
• Verify all employees are following established processes and procedures in compliance with established the Environmental and Quality Management Systems.
• Review Quality Book with Operator including quality alerts, job specific training, packaging requirements, cycle time standards, and any other job specific training requirements.
• Ensure operator has all required tools and safety equipment to run job.
• Provide daily production reporting and be able to communicate any issues impacting cost, quality or output.
• Assume the active leadership role in the area of safety in the workplace and use these principals to ensure that the work force is operating in a safe productive manner and give pertinent recommendations related to the appropriate areas.
• Identify, troubleshoot, record and correct setup documentation, equipment problems, environmental and safety concerns, and nonconforming material.
• Identify and correct nonconforming conditions and implement corrective actions in accordance with Company Policies.
• Oversee the setup and operation of injection molding equipment.
• Oversee the setup and operation of auxiliary equipment commonly used in injection molding (i.e. robot pickers, water heaters, conveyors, separators, water chilling systems, bulk resin dispensing equipment, hopper dryers, etc.).
• Ensure the maintenance of the production area to ensure the plant is being run in a neat and orderly manner.
• Maintain work-related records in a neat, timely and complete manner.
• Ensure everyone on the manufacturing floor is compliant with all safety policies.
• Ensure work cells are properly set up with VAS boards, First Articles, all required assembly equipment and check fixtures as noted in the process books.
• Review previous day issues with operators including quality alerts, 5s, and proper hand-offs between shifts
• Verify training level of operators, review procedures
• Assign operators based upon training level and coordinate training of operators
• Monitor production rates against standard rates
• Complete necessary paperwork for daily production reporting, verify production requirements are met, scrap reporting is done at real-time stations and is accurate
• Assist operators with quality checks, including monitoring critical jobs each hour as defined by supervisor or management
• Review and monitor scrap, defects, and rejects. Escalate if 3-5-10 rules are not respected
• Other responsibilities assigned by Plant Manager.

Responsibility for Quality

• The Supervisor is the owner of product quality for their shift, which means they must ensure all parts are produced following the documented processes.
• The supervisor is responsible for alerting the next shift of any/all production or process issues that could impact quality.
• The Supervisor is responsible for any/all activities in manufacturing that can impact the quality of parts being produced as well as ensuring production schedules are met.

Level of Authority

• Stop the manufacturing process they are executing, if the result does not produce a quality part, matching first article (This authority does not allow for modification of the process in any way).
• Stop the manufacturing process if there are any safety concerns (and notify management immediately).
• Authority to initiate corrective action for those who report to them who do not follow assigned processes or safety policies, up to and including dismissal.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of supervisory experience in an injection molding plant environment. Demonstrated accuracy in working with numbers (math & basic algebra) procedures and forms.
• Demonstrated critical thing skills using logic and reason to identify strengths and weakness of alternative solutions and/or approaches to problems.
• Solid working knowledge of injection molding, from raw material to finished goods with a thorough understanding of the effects of heat, pressure, and time on the process and end product.
• Ability to communicate an understanding of mechanical principals (vacuum, pressure, force, temperature, fluid flow, heat transfer, etc. to employees and customers.
• Solid and demonstrated ability to use computers in a networked Environment including Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word, etc.) Experience with IQMS a plus.
• Superior supervisory skills with demonstrated experience in active listening, monitoring, motivating and coaching employees.
• A history of providing regular and effective performance feedback to direct reports as well as effectively addressing employee needs, disciplinary actions and training.
• Williness and ability to work seven (7) days per week if needed to meet customer demands.