<img src="https://dmscdn.successfactors.com/27c0a91770d9ecac9ed08a9f63f401a6121aa728d77960676d754d492bcae147/static_content/8761288a654040abb2af/jobad1.png" alt="" width="748" height="128"> Position Summary: The Production Supervisor (I, II) directs employees in assigned assembly, distribution, manufacturing, or production area (e.g., assembly, cutting, machining, paint, sewing, welding, etc.) in the execution of the team’s responsibilities. Manages team (manufacturing line, cells, or area) as an operational unit and responsible to accomplish company goals and targets in accordance with all company policies, manufacturing standards and methods, and quality standards for safety, product quality, customer satisfaction, accuracy, productivity, cost reduction, housekeeping, efficiency, training, teamwork, and morale. This position requires the ability to lead and motivate employees by understanding all of the production, safety, quality, and customer requirements and effectively communicating information to all members of the team. This position is also responsible for assisting with materials planning and logistics, reviewing production data, and processing data. Description of Essential Job Functions: <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Function as a first-line supervisor over team leaders and employees. </li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Plan and coordinate hiring and placement of employees with his/her Manager. Monitor and track staffing conditions, work hours and overtime, job rotation, and absenteeism.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide direction and motivation to employees emphasizing safety, quality, efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, and morale.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Coach and counsel employees in safety, performance, attendance, training, housekeeping/5S, and quality to ensure understanding and compliance of company requirements.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Understand, execute, and ensure consistent compliance with all company rules, policies, and practices, and takes appropriate corrective action when warranted, in accordance with the terms of the Employee Handbook.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for managing and appraising employee job performance and recommending corrective action.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop and maintains positive employee relations centered on mutual trust, dignity, respect, fairness, consistency, two-way communication, teamwork, and harmony.</li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="2"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for leading and maintaining the manufacturing and production system of assigned area, accomplishing department goals, and keeping on task with targets and implementation schedule.</li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Utilize techniques to standardize current/new processes and methods, reduce process variation, identify waste, and methodically eliminate waste.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Develop standardized work procedures by designing and/or documenting the best work sequence for each process.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Direct the work of team leaders and employees by assigning/re-assigning work stationing and analyze production requirements based on current work situation and production schedules.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Direct floor activities through consistent application of 4Front’s manufacturing and production processes, standards, and systems to ensure all aspects of manufacturing are effective and correct sub-standard situations.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Assist with materials planning and logistics to ensure on-time delivery of parts, materials, and product meet internal/external customer expectations and requirements.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Perform the essential job functions of team leaders or employees as necessary to maintain efficient, stable, and continuous operations.</li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="3"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Utilize knowledge and skills to maintain the highest level of quality and efficiency possible. </li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Monitor and manage the flow of parts, materials, inventory levels, productivity, and quality according to lean, just-in-time manufacturing methods (“pull system”); take corrective action as needed.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure quality goals and standards are met and know how to use the quality feedback loops and systems and escalation procedures. Confirm that employees use the quality systems correctly.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Partner with the Quality department to initiate investigation and containment activities.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Troubleshoot daily quality, safety, and production issues. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Perform audits in areas of safety, training, and quality to support company needs, and develop countermeasures when necessary.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Identify potential and current change points and make the required adjustments needed to ensure quality, safety, operational availability, production efficiency (PEFF), and costs are maintained.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be proactive in predicting abnormalities and finding innovative solutions to correct. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Assist with company compliance regarding requirements of ISO 14001 and other customer mandated certifications. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Evaluate and analyze problems involving machinery and equipment and coordinates repair of tools and machinery. Participate in frequent evaluation of machines, tools, equipment, etc. including assisting with preventive maintenance of equipment.</li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="4"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead continuous improvement activity for assigned area.</li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Participate in the setting of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets including safety, quality, operational availability, PEFF, scrap, etc. as a method of continuous improvement.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain, monitor, and update department and KPI board and graphs, daily, and initiate continuous improvement activities. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Initiate, coordinate, and participate in safety, quality, productivity, and cost improvement projects.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead the implementation of employees’ ideas and suggestions and management directed initiatives.</li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="5"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain a safe working environment for all employees. </li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure compliance with safety regulations, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirements, and company safety policies and procedures.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Actively participate in accident/injury, including near misses, investigations and resolve any deficiencies, to include engineering controls, employee education, etc. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead, perform, and/or participate in ergonomic exercises, 5S housekeeping, accident investigation, and safety audits and related activities.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Lead ergonomic assessments of employee work stations and implement countermeasures and job rotation to improve long-term safe working conditions and employee well-being.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain knowledge of procedures concerning Hazardous Waste, Spill Response, and Plant Security.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Monitor safety and health of employees to ensure their well-being. </li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="6"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Train and coach employees to maintain productivity and quality standards in ISO 14001, environmental, safety, quality, job performance, setups, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.</li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Orientate and oversee all training of employees and assign experienced and/or certified trainers to perform new employee training and cross training as needed.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain training matrix for team leaders and/or employees, assuring training is effective and corrects sub-standard performance.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain, plan, and prepare department instruction manuals.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure further development of employees through performance evaluation, development of training plans, feedback, coaching, and cascade training. </li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="7"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Collect, record, and analyze information while maintaining documentation regarding the activities in the assigned area as defined by company policy, procedure, or practice.</li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Prepare business reports and spreadsheets of required data. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain specified records, files and logs of department/shift activities such as production, production problems, parts shortages, scrap, quality, maintenance, etc. (manual and computer) as required. Perform other various administrative duties. </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Monitor, process, and maintain employee working time (payroll), attendance, and training records. </li> </ol> <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px" start="8"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Communicate frequently with internal contacts on various issues. </li> </ol> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Through daily communication meetings, keep employees informed on issues relevant to them and encourage two-way communication.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Communicate production, quality, and safety information in addition to general information from other locations/departments.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Maintain daily and/or frequent communication with upstream and downstream groups/areas and support departments to ensure efficient and stable operations in a team-based environment.</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 24.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Coordinate communications between shifts for assigned area(s).</li> </ol> Supervisory Responsibilities: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 4.3pt 0.0in 0.0px;text-align:justify;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Directly supervises employees. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. </li> </ul> Qualification Requirements: <ul> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:6.0px">To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. </li> </ul> Education and Experience: <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">High School diploma or GED required.</li> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, or Operations Management; Industrial Engineering; Manufacturing Engineering; or related field preferred but not required.</li> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">3-5 years of relevant manufacturing/production experience preferred with parts production, quality, or production control experience a plus.</li> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Previous leadership or supervisory experience.</li> </ul> Computer Skills <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ability to use a personal computer utilizing spreadsheet and word processing software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.</li> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">ERP system experience preferred.</li> <li style="margin-right:4.5pt;margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Advanced/Intermediate skill level with Microsoft Office Suite; Word, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint preferred.</li> </ul> We are the ASSA ABLOY Group Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

Supervisor I, Production (North Wales, PA, US, 19454) @ ASSA ABLOY AB

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