The ideal candidate is a strong floor leader who can communicate effectively across departments, remove roadblocks, support lean manufacturing initiatives, and maintain a positive, accountable production culture.
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Supervise, train, motivate, and evaluate production employees and team leads.
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Assign employees to jobs based on production needs, skill level, and workflow priorities.
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Conduct daily floor meetings to communicate goals, priorities, safety expectations, and production updates.
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Monitor the production schedule and ensure parts, assemblies, materials, and labor are aligned to support on-time delivery.
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Work closely with materials, operations, engineering, customer service, production planning, warehouse, receiving, shipping, and inspection teams to resolve production issues.
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Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to improve work instructions, assembly processes, workflow, equipment usage, 5S practices, and Kaizen initiatives.
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Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and support lean manufacturing improvements.
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Help develop and justify equipment needs, facility improvements, and shop-related capital budget items.
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Plan and schedule work to meet department deadlines, quality standards, and production goals.
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Manage employee schedules, including overtime planning, to ensure proper labor coverage.
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Track production efficiency and take corrective action when performance targets are not being met.
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Support routing creation for large system builds and related production work.
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Coordinate expedited orders, finished goods movement, special packaging needs, and customer routing instructions.
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Manage production floor consumables and ensure necessary supplies are ordered and available.
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Troubleshoot quantity discrepancies, assembly issues, goods movement errors, and production delays.
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Complete annual performance reviews for direct reports.
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Maintain discipline and recommend corrective action when necessary.
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Support environmental compliance efforts, including proper handling and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste in accordance with applicable regulations.
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Maintain confidentiality when working with proprietary company information.
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Perform other duties as assigned.
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Strong hands-on leadership ability with a positive, team-focused approach.
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Ability to lead, coach, and hold employees accountable in a production environment.
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Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization.
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Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating instructions, maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, diagrams, and work-related documentation.
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Ability to write routine reports, correspondence, and production-related updates.
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Comfortable presenting information in one-on-one and small group settings.
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Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Ability to calculate rates, ratios, percentages, and interpret basic production data and graphs.
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Strong troubleshooting, organization, and problem-solving skills.
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Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.