Assistant Supervisor- Service Department, 1st Shift - Mitchell, United States - Trail King Industries

Description

Job Description

About The Role

The Assistant Supervisor will assist the manufacturing supervisor in the following areas: Safety, Quality, and Production while leading a team of individual contributors on the shop floor.

Responsibilities

Safety

• Adheres & manages all safety rules and regulations to assure a safe environment for all people.
• Verifies that all assigned personnel have received all required safety training, including training new hires on Safety Training Module's (STM's) when necessary.
• Maintains assigned shop areas in a neat, orderly, and safe condition by deploying 5S.
• Participate in safety audits and incident reporting.

Quality

• Along with Engineering, Quality Control, and Service Dept, ensures that products meet company standards and are built to drawings or specifications using approved methods.
  • Follows all Engineering and Manufacturing memos.
  • Follows all routings set-up for parts.
  • Follows all cut sheets.
  • Consults with the Plant Manager and/or Quality Manager when any deviation is deemed necessary.

Production Areas

• Conducts start up meeting to share information regarding Safety, Quality and Delivery.
• Supervises all shop floor personnel in the assigned area.
• Assigns personnel to specific areas or projects.
• Completes entries in work history file.
• Assures that the personnel have the required instruction, tools, parts, prints, etc.
• Responsible for updating Kronos to include correcting punches, assigning attendance points, and entering PTO.
• Audits and corrects ATM to ensure accurate data.
• Plans production throughput to meet or exceed the master production schedule in assigned area.
• Monitors/tracks hours worked by employees, evaluates based on established standards, helps establish new standards and communicates performance to production employees.
• Works toward increasing efficiencies in all facets of manufacturing.
• Works with and maintains excellent communication with all departments at all levels to ensure that products and processes meet Trail King standards of Quality, Safety, Cost and Delivery
• Uniformly enforces and acts as a role model in the adherence to company rules, policies and procedures set forth by the company handbook and management.
• Continually evaluates the work of personnel in area.
• Assists personnel, through education and training, to improve their understanding of the machinery and product being produced.
• Prepares performance evaluations of personnel by qualifying and quantifying the skills, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses of all people in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Keeps open lines of communication between all areas of the shop to help alleviate potential problems.
• Works all shifts as required.
• Attend continuing education as directed by the company.
• Identify all critical type positions and ensure backup personnel is in place; send personnel for training as necessary and see backup personnel is rotated in position to maintain skills.
• Participate in interviewing potential candidates as needed, as well conduct weld evaluations.
• Performs additional tasks appropriate to the job as assigned by management i.e., but not limited to Lean Projects, Lean Enterprise Initiatives, and Cost Reduction Projects.
• Performs all labor activities of assigned work area as needed.

Performance Measurements

• Assures conformance to Personnel and Safety policies and procedures.
• Responsible for products meeting Trail King's quality, efficiency standards, and schedules

Candidate Requirements

• Prefer a minimum of 5 years trailer manufacturing experience.
• Possess competencies, or possess the ability to learn competencies, with all fixtures, routings, structures, etc. that affect the assigned area.
• Possess an excellent work history.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to work with all levels of management and staff.
• Open minded and possess the skills to research and weigh all facts before coming to conclusions or making decisions.
• Possess the ability to control emotions in stressful situations.
• Self-motivated and an independent worker.
• Possess strong organizational and planning skills.
• Willing and able to work a flexible schedule, including all shifts, to cover any assigned work area.
• Familiar with Lean Enterprise/Manufacturing concepts
• Experience with computers
• Previous supervision experience is a plus.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is required to stand; walk; sit; climb; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to changes in temperature and humidity, exposure to dust, fumes and is near moving machinery.