What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift position at New York Air Brake?
Summary/Objective
Oversees and manages all day-to-day production operations, in the assigned production section. Contributes to production planning processes. Allocates personnel resources. Proposes procedures improvements and implements technical infrastructure. Ensures adherence to established quality guidelines and production safety requirements. Determines manufacturing priorities based on established weekly production schedules. Makes daily assignments. Directs all related personnel actions; advices staff, executes performance measurements, etc... Interprets specifications and makes judgments about the acceptability of production that is in process. Leads all Production Operators in production section assigned.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position has >10 direct hourly reports
Work Environment:
The employee will be required to perform duties on a computer terminal. The employee will be exposed to shop floor conditions, i.e. noise, heat, cold, dust/dirt etc.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Required Education And Experience
Oversees and manages all day-to-day production operations, in the assigned production section. Contributes to production planning processes. Allocates personnel resources. Proposes procedures improvements and implements technical infrastructure. Ensures adherence to established quality guidelines and production safety requirements. Determines manufacturing priorities based on established weekly production schedules. Makes daily assignments. Directs all related personnel actions; advices staff, executes performance measurements, etc... Interprets specifications and makes judgments about the acceptability of production that is in process. Leads all Production Operators in production section assigned.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provide manpower planning to ensure production schedules are met
- Lead the training and qualification process of direct reports
- Facilitate Team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements, etc
- Lead and solicit continuous improvement ideas from team members
- Conduct departmental audits (safety,5s,etc)
- Ensure employees are following established procedures and Standard work process.
- Address employee performance issues in a timely manner
- Manage the time and attendance system to ensure employees are properly compensated
- Ensure that all HSE policy and procedures are being followed
- Conduct accident investigations
- Must be able to comply with quality, product safety, and HSE rules and regulations. Be energy conscious, if applicable.
- Must understand and adhere to all relevant statutory or regulatory compliance obligations.
- Must understand, support and adhere to the Integrated Management System policies, procedures and instructions.
- Must understand and support relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), as defined in the goal tree.
- Has SAP system knowledge.
- Exhibits accident investigation skills.
- Has Dayforce knowledge.
- Has working knowledge of lean principles.
- Exhibits excellent leadership skills.
- Technical Capacity
- Knowledge/understanding of property descriptions.
- Basic knowledge of quantitative methods/statistical procedures and graphic skills.
- Communication Proficiency
- Organization Skills
- Time Management
This position has >10 direct hourly reports
Work Environment:
The employee will be required to perform duties on a computer terminal. The employee will be exposed to shop floor conditions, i.e. noise, heat, cold, dust/dirt etc.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Required Education And Experience
- Associate Degree in Process, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, Business
- 3-5 Years of Relevant Experience
- Lean Manufacturing, 5S, SAP
- All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
- This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
- This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.