Production Supervisor
Position: Production Supervisor
Job Location: Manchester, Iowa
Start Date: TBD
Employment Type: Regular Full-time
Required Education: ,Bachelor’s Degree
Required Experience:
Required Travel: None
Position Description:
General Summary: Generally expected to work as a valued member of the XL Specialized Trailers team. Manufactures products by supervising staff; organizing and monitoring work flow.
Responsibilities, Qualifications or Skills Required: Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
- Maintains staff by selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.
- Maintains workflow by monitoring steps of the process; setting processing variables; observing control points and equipment; monitoring personnel and resources; studying methods; implementing cost reductions; developing reporting procedures and systems; facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments.
- Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems, reporting results of the processing flow on shift production summaries.
- Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
- Ensures operation of equipment by calling for repairs; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data; answer questions and responding to requests.
- Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, recordkeeping systems, forms of control, and budgetary and personnel requirements; implementing change.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations. Wears proper personal protective equipment.
- Identifies and anticipates safety and health concerns and hazards by surveying environmental, operational, and occupational conditions.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Ancillary Duties:
- Assist with the continuous process improvement of XL Specialized Trailers by leading and participating in projects such as lean, 5-S and Kaizen..
- Perform any other tasks assigned to support and improve the overall operations of the XL Specialized Trailers.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology/Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, Management or other related field.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Leadership: a demonstrated ability to lead and generate results through others.
- Planning; an ability to think ahead and plan.
- The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
- Problem analysis and problem resolution at a functional level.
- Strong customer orientation.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Commitment to company values.
- Computer literate.
Physical Demands:
- Occasional walking, sitting, climbing, reaching, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling.
- Ability to routinely lift 25 lbs. and occasionally up to 50lbs and move up to 100 pounds.
- Ability to work overtime, including Saturdays.
Work Environment:
Work is primarily performed indoors in production facility.
Post Offer/Pre-employment Physical and Drug Screen Required.
XL Specialized Trailers is an Equal Opportunity Employer