Production Supervisor - Warren, United States - TPI Composites

TPI Composites

Verified Company

Warren, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

About TPI

TPI Composites is a global provider of structural composites products and has 50 years of experience in the design, development, prototyping and serial production of advanced lightweight composite structures.

We specialize in molding lightweight composite products for the Automotive and Wind Energy industries. TPI Automotive also provides a full range of services that complement our customers' extensive vehicle engineering capability.

Our Automotive business customer base includes new entrants and established OEMs in the passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, and transit bus segments.

We have established our Automotive business unit as a leader in composite solutions, providing our customers with lightweight structures and components that perform better than their metallic alternatives.

The composites we manufacture make the vehicles more efficient through weight reduction, improved corrosion resistance, and thermal management.

Position Summary:

Oversee the day-to-day operation activities including direct supervision of associates. Daily planning, organizing, directing, motivating, problem solving and continuous improvement on the shop floor. Assure assigned team is meeting objectives in the areas of safety, quality, delivery and productivity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Daily supervision/leading of Manufacturing Associates
Influence safe associate behavior; set expectations for following safety procedures and safe behaviors.
Perform as a working member of the team as necessary to meet production targets, set the pace/
Demonstrate work methods and ensure that team members are trained to complete all tasks
Assign work to associates and monitor both efficiency and quality of their work
Ensure all work procedures are followed
Manage vacation and time off requests for the team
Ensure that the payroll records are accurate for team members via i.e. Labor Tracker
Deliver and participate in disciplinary activities with Human Resources
Participate in the interview/selection of team members
Attend and participate in shift hand off meetings
Fairly and consistently promote, enforce and reinforce all company policies
Conduct associate performance reviews in a timely manner
Ensure that team boards are completed accurately and on time and that metrics are utilized to develop corrective actions and drive continuous improvement.

Education/ Skills/ Experience:

Two-year degree in supervision, management, business, or a related area and 3 years of supervisory/management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience in Lean manufacturing preferred
Demonstrated leadership, engagement and mentoring skills
Enthusiastic and possess the ability to motivate others
Ability to maintain excellent attendance record
Analytical and problemsolving skills
Be seen as the best source of credible information for their associates and respected by other associates.

Training Requirements:

Must attend all mandatory HR training modules such as drug testing, harassment, FMLA, positive work environment, etc.

Physical Demands:

Ability to be on the factory floor for long periods of time.
Potentially working across all shifts at times with the stamina to work 50+ hours per week to support plant performance.
Work in an industrial environment where there will be exposure to elevated high heat and humidity, fiberglass dust, and hazardous chemicals.
In a safetysensitive, demanding, detail oriented, deadline driven environment that requires simultaneous handling of multiple priorities.
Lifting and carrying up to 2550lbs.
Use of manual, electric, and pneumatic hand tools.
Standing, sitting, bending, kneeling, squatting, ladder and stair climbing and occasional crawling, twisting, and lying.
Reaching and repetitive manipulation of hands for simple grasping, pushing, and pulling.
Wearing of personal protective equipment including, but not limited to safety glasses, gloves, protective garments, and respirators.

Personal Qualities:
(these are the qualities it takes to get the most from others)

Emotional balance:
The leader works in situations which involve authority, leadership, conflicts, meeting targets and deadlines, etc.

The successful leader has to be able to maintain emotional balance and self-control so that they may face various situations confidently and successfully.

Be proactive/engaging:
The leaders will have some objectives to achieve. They cannot plan everything in advance. Several times they have to respond to the needs of the situation which has arisen suddenly.

The leader must also be able to have qualities such as being committed, having a missionary zeal, taking responsibility instead of passing the blame to others all while getting the team to engage and follow.

Creativity:
The leader must have the ability to come up with new responses to situations. They must have new ideas and al