Production Supervisor (Crew Leader)

Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

BAMG - WilsonManagementProduction & Skilled TradesAs a Crew Leader in our Wilson, NC Passenger Car & Light Truck Radial Tire facility, you will play an essential role in leading, managing and providing direction to production teammates within a designated department of the plant. Crew Leaders are focused on providing a safe working environment while ensuring the quality and quantity of our products meets departmental requirements. Additionally, our Crew Leaders are responsible for communicating company objectives, workforce planning/scheduling and continuously seeking improvement opportunities within our manufacturing environment.

• Supervises production teammates with responsibility for performance management and training.
• Motivates teammates to continually improve performance
• Sets day-to-day objectives, organizes workflow, provides guidance, and supports achievement of goals for crew
• Monitor, analyze, countermeasure quality-related problems, providing training and retraining to teammates as needed, ensuring proper development of teammates skills and training needs through daily monitoring and follow up
• Makes decisions on the acceptability of questionable material components following standard practice guidelines
• Promotes safety awareness daily
• Counsels and directs training of workforce in safe operating procedures, monitors the environment and investigates, reports and initiates corrective measures as needed
• Communicates regularly with management and plant leadership
• Other duties as assigned

• Minimum of 3 years manufacturing/production experience
• 2 years of leadership/managing hourly teammates in a manufacturing environment (preferred)
• Associates or Bachelors degree (preferred)
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make data driven decisions (industrial engineering experience) preferred

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they bring their whole self to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. We are building a team as diverse as the world we serve. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider for employment all individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.