Production Supervisor - Suwanee, Georgia
Price Industries, Inc. (www.price-hvac.com) a leading manufacturer of Air Distribution Products for the HVAC industry is looking for new talent in our growing US office and manufacturing facility. If you thrive on new challenges, pushing yourself to new heights and working in a team-driven environment you should consider the following job opportunity.Service Overview:
The Supervisor manages the production activities within their department and is responsible for Overall Performance of the Manufacturing Cell including Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Training.
This includes:
• Production schedule
• Delivery performance
• Resource planning and allocation work flow
• Resource utilization
• Quality improvement
• Safety improvement
• Productivity improvement and scrap reduction of their production cell as well as leading, supervising and coaching lead-hands and members of the production teams within their cell
Responsibilities:
• Owner of the department
• Improvement of the department - targeting 50% of supervisor time on improvement
• Efficiency and utilization (i.e. productivity) of the department
• Quality of the products built and effective resolution of quality issues
• Resolve quality issues using the problem solving methods to identify problem root cause and implement corrective and preventative measures to ensure the problem does not reoccur
• Utilize, as necessary, functional support departments to resolve quality issues
• Safety including identification and resolution of safety issues
• Ensuring instructions, procedures, and policies are followed
• Process and product flow through the cells and the improvement of the process
• Motivating cell members through involvement, communication and positive reinforcement
• Provide employees with feedback through formal and informal performance evaluations
• Monitoring attendance and take disciplinary steps as required up to the termination
• Dealing with conflict and interpersonal issues in a calm, controlled and professional manner
• Manpower planning and effective staffing, including selecting operators, lead-hands and master crafters
• Ensuring effective training and cross training
• Mentoring lead hands and developing the lead hands so that they can manage the hour by hour manufacturing operation
• Driving continuous improvement within the cells to achieve on-going improvements in quality, productivity and delivery performance
• Be the main driving force behind 5S and process improvement within the cells
• Use "Lean" manufacturing and other techniques to improve cell performance
• Educate cell members in application of lean thinking and lean tools
• Representing the department, as necessary, at meetings, briefings, etc.
• Ensuring the department organization and cleanliness is maintained to world-class levels
• Ensure daily shop clean-up actions are performed effectively and required daily machine preventative maintenance actions are carried out as required
Requirements:
• Minimum of 2 - 3 years of supervision with a proven track record in a high volume, multi- product environment
• Exceptional leadership skills accompanied by a sense of urgency
• Comfortable in a team - oriented environment where success of the company is of paramount importance
• Ability to achieve desired results by motivating Associates to want to meet goals
• Trained and experienced in lean manufacturing
• Strong initiative and able to work with minimum supervision
• Excellent communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Thrive in a work environment where teamwork, accountability and innovative thinking are highly valued
Preferred:
• Bilingual in Spanish or Vietnamese highly preferred
• Knowledge and experience in sheet metal fabrication, welding, painting, and assembly is highly preferred
• Experience in a process engineering role is preferred
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