What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Production Supervisor position at Flex?
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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add an Associate Production Supervisor located in Orangeburg, SC.
Reporting to the Operations Manager the Associate Production Supervisor role is in charge of directing the manufacturing operations performed in a shift or group of production lines, ensuring they reach volume, quality and cost goals.
What a typical day looks like:
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add an Associate Production Supervisor located in Orangeburg, SC.
Reporting to the Operations Manager the Associate Production Supervisor role is in charge of directing the manufacturing operations performed in a shift or group of production lines, ensuring they reach volume, quality and cost goals.
What a typical day looks like:
- Manages the production of several processes/lines in a highly technical environment and in charge of the lines success.
- Evaluates daily/regularly plant operating performance and advises on changes in operating conditions that will improve efficiencies and quality.
- Guide a team of professionals (e.g. engineers/officers) to meet quality, cost, delivery and acknowledge requirements.
- Troubleshoot and explore operational problems and advise on their resolution. Guide regular discussions with operators to coach performance and improve operational comprehension and capability.
- Solicits and evaluates ideas for plant improvements and contribute with qualified engineers to develop project proposals.
- Provides technical and operational advice to project teams.
- May act as principal interface between the operation team and the maintenance function.
- Engage in training and coaching of junior operators.
- Prioritizes production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, and materials supply in order to meet customer requirements.
- Initiate and participate in process development and cost improvement projects.
- Assist in department budget planning and management of department expenses.
- Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing team members on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Ensures compliance of standards.
- Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience.
- Demonstrates basic people and/or process management skills.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients and customers.
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to define and solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to collect data, establish facts, interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form, and draw valid conclusions.
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