Fabcon is hiring: Production Supervisor - Night Shift in Savage

Overview

Production Supervisor - Night Shift at Fabcon. This position is responsible for improving the Company’s profitability by implementing Lean principles and practices to improve Safety/5S, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC). The Production Supervisor provides direction to support groups within their area of responsibility to ensure proper fulfillment of customer orders. Night shift.

Responsibilities

• Manages customer orders to ensure proper fulfillment
• Ensures that all required resources are present to produce the required output
• Communicates progress toward order fulfillment
• Manages for daily improvement
• Establishes a lean vision for processes, sets SQDC improvement goals, and takes action to achieve these goals
• Posts and monitors SQDC measurements to provide visual trends of progress and identify opportunities for improvement
• Eliminates problems by taking immediate stop-gap measures, coordinating with required support groups, recording critical data and driving root-cause elimination
• Ensures adherence to standard work and implements improvements to standard operations daily
• Provides strong leadership
• Conducts daily startup meetings to review SQDC performance, establish goals, review status, present issues, and build a winning team spirit
• Provides continuous feedback on personal performance and rewards or disciplines accordingly
• Increases the team’s skill depth through cross-training, development goals, and task rotation
• Interviews, hires and trains employees

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Manages customer orders to ensure proper fulfillment
• Ensures that all required resources are present to produce the required output
• Communicates progress toward order fulfillment
• Manages for daily improvement
• Establishes a lean vision for processes, sets SQDC improvement goals, and takes proper action to achieve these goals
• Posts and monitors SQDC measurements to provide visual trend of progress against goals and objectives
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and drives root-cause elimination
• Ensures adherence to standard work and implements improvements to standard operations daily
• Provides strong leadership
• Conducts daily startup meetings to review SQDC performance and team status
• Provides continuous feedback on personal performance and applies rewards or disciplines as appropriate
• Increases team skill depth through cross-training and development goals
• Interviews, hires and trains employees

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Two years of demonstrated experience leading a team in a manufacturing or similar environment

Other Required Qualifications

• Strong leadership, training and mentoring skills; effective communication in presentations and written forms
• Flexibility, results orientation, and commitment to business goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Four plus years of supervisory experience in a production or similar environment
• Bilingual English/Spanish

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand/walk for long durations in a manufacturing environment with ladders and catwalks
• Move and handle items up to 50 lbs; spatial awareness and use of hand tools; perform office computer tasks

Work Environment

• Approximately 50% of time in a loud, dusty manufacturing environment; remainder in an office environment
• Plant/Yard: various weather conditions; dirt/dust; noise from machinery and vehicles; vibrations; limited climate control; stairs and narrow walkways
• Office: Quiet with some ambient noise; climate controlled; fluorescent lighting