What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at Owens Corning and Careers?
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The Production Supervisor is responsible for the safe, quality-focused and efficient day to day operation of a manufacturing shift of personnel. The person in this role assumes the responsibility to ensure their staff is properly trained to perform their primary functions autonomously and creates and maintains a sustainable plan to cross train for maximum flexibility of their shift compliment.
Reports to: Operations Leader
Span of Control: Position is responsible for direct leadership of approximately 15 employees
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Aligns with the Roofing and Asphalt business goals.
- Develops and achieves personal objectives that stretch self and align to the Department, Plant, Division and Company goals.
- Success will be measured by the Production Supervisor’s ability to coordinate with peer group to collectively achieve operational excellence in safety, quality, cost control, inclusion, engagement, inter-department cohesion and compliance.
- Assists in developing their staff understanding of the equipment, process, and the effects of their actions up and downstream to their area. Ensures a macro and micro level understanding of the plant processes and the inter-relation to the individual work area.
- Is a positive change agent encouraging and closely involved in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) efforts to ensure shift culture mirrors initiatives
- Ensures Operator training materials are maintained up to date through routine audit and management of change process input to Training and Development (T&D) Pillar Leader when changes occur in process settings, equipment, etc.
Accountable for employee safety.
- Models the appropriate safe work practices and prioritizes safety above all other metrics
- Holds others accountable for working safely and engaging actively in safety initiatives to maintain a zero- incident culture
- Provides appropriate resources to ensure a fully engaged and incident-free operation
- Ensures the plant is always in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identifies hazards, including housekeeping issues, resolves and sustains the plan in an ongoing fashion
- Ensures the safe manufacture of a quality product in accordance with schedule requirements
Demonstrate the commitment to build an exceptional workplace environment; fostering open communication, employee engagement, and inclusion.
- Actively manages the continued training, development and growth of all personnel.
- Provides daily management of timekeeping systems to ensure payroll accuracy is maintained
- Encourages a culture of data driven decision making
- Sets clear expectations of performance and establishes, communicates and regularly reviews commitments to make certain milestones are achieved as planned
- Audits daily to ensure data accuracy of all inputs (e.g. check sheets, layered process audits, computer inputs, etc.)
- Professional and motivating communication skills to recognize and bring out the best in each employee
- When operating on an off shift, represents the entire management team
JOB REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree Preferred (Majors - Engineering or Business are strongly preferred)
EXPERIENCE:
- Experience directly leading people in an industrial manufacturing or maintenance operations environment is strongly preferred.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of Lean, 6S, and TPM
- Ability to reduce waste through continuous improvement of existing processes
- Mechanical aptitude highly preferable
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