What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at Fabcon?
Purpose/Scope
This position is a hands-on supervisor role to lead daily operations in a growing precast concrete manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for delivering measurable results across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Employee Engagement (SQDCE) while leading crews in wet cast and/or prestress production. The Production Supervisor is responsible for building a high-performance team that produces safe, high-quality precast products on time and at cost.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage daily production execution for precast operations
- Conducts daily startup meetings to review SQDC performance, establish short and long term performance goals, review initiative status, present company issues, and build a winning team spirit
- Establishes a lean vision for processes, sets SQDC improvement goals, and takes the proper action to achieve these goals
- Posts and monitors SQDC measurements to provide visual trend of progress against goals and objectives, and to identify/seek opportunities for improvement
- Eliminates problems by taking immediate stop-gap measures, employing required support groups, recording critical data and driving root-cause elimination
- Provides continuous feedback to members regarding their personal performance and rewards or disciplines accordingly
- Increases the team’s skill depth through use of cross-training matrices, development goal setting, and task rotation
- Responsible for managing team members, including participating in recruitment and orientation, training and development, performance management processes, disciplinary actions and maintaining proper staffing levels.
- Address issues quickly and escalate when needed
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or the equivalent in experience
- Two years of demonstrated experience leading a team to achieve objectives in a manufacturing or similar environment
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work on the production floor in a physically demanding setting
- Results-driven with a sense of ownership and urgency
- Ability to interact/communicate (both written and verbally) effectively with all levels within the organization as well as customers and suppliers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Three to five years of precast or concrete manufacturing experience (wet cast or prestress)
- Knowledge of reinforcing steel, forming systems, and concrete finishing
- One to three years of experience in a union environment
- Lean / continuous improvement background
Physical Requirements
- Ability to spend long durations standing/walking in a manufacturing environment with steep ladders and catwalks.
- Plant/Yard: Move minimum of 50lbs., spatial awareness/depth perception, walk, climb, bend at the waist, reach, forceful use of hand tools, vocal projection
- Office: Move 25lbs, work with a computer for extended periods of time
Work Environments
- 50% of time will be spent in a loud, dusty manufacturing environment with wide variations in ambient conditions. The remainder will be spent in an office environment.
- Plant/Yard: All types of weather conditions (year-round, Mid-west and Northeast), dirt/dust, noise from heavy machinery/vehicles, vibrations from machinery and vehicles, loud noises, little to no climate control, varying amounts of light, stairs, narrow walkways