About this role
Direct and coordinate daily activities of kitting associates, assign tasks, and ensure work is completed accurately and on time.
- Maintain accurate inventory levels, lead cycle counts, and reconcile discrepancies to ensure material availability.
- Work with planning, purchasing, and production teams to forecast needs, resolve shortages, and align kitting operations with broader goals.
- Work with Packaging Teams to develop a safe work environment and train employees to work safely while adhering to all safety policies and guidelines.
- Maintain a strong focus on employee safety, product quality, labor efficiency, materials flow, training & meeting high-volume daily production targets under a 24/7 operation scheme.
- Promote continuous improvement efforts and training programs aimed at achieving positive trends in performance KPIs. KPIs include safety, quality, manufacturing performance, and overall financial performance.
- Deep understanding of packaging production lines, equipment, and workflow optimization.
- Coordinates with other Shift Supervisors to ensure effective shift-to-shift hand-off including a joint walk-through of the manufacturing area (should occur during 20-30 minutes prior to shift change), verifying that employees are communicating with oncoming shift regarding housekeeping and work-cell performance.
- Maintain housekeeping standards (GMP/6S) to ensure a clean and safe work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of all control points, equipment, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Communicate, enforce, and maintain all company policies and procedures per the Employee Handbook.
- Ensure adherence to Quality procedures including Certified Operator training, NMR process/documentation, and Quarantine process.
- Effectively communicate (written & verbally) with all members of staff.
- Coach, counsel, discipline and appraise employee's job results on the assigned frequency, and on time.
- Ensure employees are properly trained to meet our current and future demands of the shift and have received Certified Operator signoffs for current assignments.
- Maintain a high level of accuracy in employee time records.
- Report and measure manufacturing results including production, inventory, and IQ reconciliation.
- Produce manufacturing data by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data: lean manufacturing and DLE calculations.
- Responsible for selecting, orienting, and developing employees for future growth opportunities.
- Accountable for managing company resources in an efficient and effective manner.
- Take an active role in the company's continuous improvement plan to ensure success.
- Utilizes problem solving and troubleshooting skills to ensure that all team members can identify root causes and take fast effective action to resolve the problems at hand