Production Supervisor (Bilingual English/Spanish)

Requirements - Position requires three to five years’ supervisory experience, plus an associate degree, bachelor's degree, or the equivalent - training and or experience. Must be bilingual (English/Spanish).

Summary

The Production Supervisor reports to the General Manager of the Department.  Responsible for directing Production Team Leaders in production processes. Establish and advance associate skills and teamwork through training and education. Promote associate relations and satisfactorily resolve associate performance issues and concerns through good open communications. Implement and advance philosophy and uphold its rules, regulations and policies in a fair and equitable manner. Establish and maintain a stable production process through 5S, standardization, visual control, and Kaizen to continuously improve safety, quality, delivery, cost and productivity through the use of the CA-PDCA cycle.

Duties Include But Not Limited To:

Directing activities of Team Leaders

Develop and implement training plans for associates

Coaching and counseling as required

Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment for all associates

Responsible for maintaining customer quality requirements

Responsible for productivity

Responsible for process rejects

Responsible for proper abnormality reporting and action

Responsible for process improvements in safety and developing countermeasures for problems in the areas of, quality, scrap, and productivity

Implementing philosophy to associates

Maintaining manufacturing and operation standards, key quality check sheets, necessary packaging standards

Responsible for manufacturing and shipping of products to customers on time

Maintaining and adhering to KANBAN systems

Directing KAIZEN activities for team members

Working with other departments and Japanese coordinators to achieve above

May require additional assigned duties