Assistant Supervisor, Production

Position Summary:  The Production Assistant Supervisor has the responsibility and accountability for hands-on leadership of teams or a team within a production department in normal operating circumstances. As a frontline leader, the role is instrumental in achieving daily production targets in a safe manner whilst encouraging and building their employees to perform to the highest standards. Performs general assembly of fabricated mechanical parts, fabric parts, pieces, or products using a variety of tools and equipment according to required specification in a specific area of production line in manufacturing. This role also performs a wide variety of duties to train, assign work, and provide hands-on direction, instruction, and guidance to employees.   

1. Description of Essential Job Functions:

1. Perform People/Leadership Function

1. Communicate daily with employees and supervisor.
2. Develop a team culture to achieve specification, yield, compliance, health and safety, and production targets.
3. Assign work, and provide instruction and guidance on proper procedures, etc., to employees. 
4. Train and coach employees to understand what specifications, yields, compliance, health and safety, and production targets mean and how they relate to the employee’s work.
5. Train personal in the routine and preventive maintenance of equipment. 
6. Monitor production and re-assign workers as necessary to meet production and shipping schedules.
7. Communicate with other departments/teams clearly and regularly regarding product delivery into the department to ensure efficient production and minimal waste.
8. Make certain employees are following work instructions and procedures, and using quality check lists, to perform their jobs safely, efficiently, and with acceptable (or better) quality. 
9. Engage employees in active problem solving and continuous improvement.
10. Liaise closely with departmental quality staff to monitor that production is being completed within clear safety and quality parameters.
11. Ensure all production machinery or work is performed or operated by a competent trained team member, operated in a safe manner and adhering to health and safety and work rules. Advise supervisor of problems.
12. Liaise closely with departmental maintenance staff to ensure machinery breakdowns are attended to in a timely manner and maintenance is completed in a safe manner.
13. Monitor employee attendance, performance, or behavior, and notify supervisor of situations requiring follow-up corrective action.

2. Perform Assembly and Related Operations

1. Check work, parts orders, and inventory of components and parts to determine items that can be assembled.
2. Prepare work to be accomplished by studying assembly instructions, schematic drawing, and parts lists.
3. Assist supervisor with organizing daily production requirements and clearly communicating the requirements to the employees at the start of every shift. Ensure all components for the next day's work are ready.
4. Ensure understanding of all applicable product specifications and are able to communicate/show employees how the product should be processed or produced (i.e., assembled, painted, welded, etc.).
5. Perform all assembly and related operations direct labor work as required for maintaining production. 
6. Monitor the daily production schedule and ensure all work and finished product have met specifications and standards (customer, technical, quality), yield, and production targets.
7. When product quality falls outside of acceptable limits as advised by quality staff, actively address problem areas and support the production teams to bring production and/or processing under control.
8. Resolve assembly problems by verification of wiring to schematic drawing, and modification of drawings, with a qualified engineer.
9. Keep fixtures, tools, and/or equipment operational and eliminate production delays by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs.
10. Notify supervisor of needed repairs and recommend new equipment. 
11. Conserve resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
12. Maintain supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies.
13. Assist in any and all departments as instructed by the supervisor, to facilitate quality, productivity, and timely delivery of product.
14. Document actions by completing production and quality forms.

2. Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Directly supervises employees during the absence of the immediate supervisor. Assists the supervisor by serving in a hands-on leadership role through assigning work; providing hands-on direction, instruction, and guidance; monitoring employee attendance, performance, and behavior; and communicating and engaging with employees on productivity, quality, delivery, maintenance, and health and safety.

3. Qualification Requirements: 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.

Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

• 3-4 years of demonstrated experience with general assembly production procedures.
• 1-2 years of industrial control panel assembly experience.
• Previous leadership or supervisory experience preferred.

Computer Skills

• Basic working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and other computer-based applications preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems, work orders, and workflow process.
• JDE experience is a plus.

Certificates, Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:

• Forklift certification and/or license may be required.

Other Skills, Abilities, or Core Competencies:

• Mechanical aptitude
• Quick learning ability.
• Attention to detail and pride in workmanship.
• Possess leadership aptitude to accomplish work goals.
• Strong productive work ethic with high attention to quality.
• Effective written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to maintain on call flexibility to control abnormal conditions.
• Flexible and adaptable to meet changing needs within the department.
• Ability to read schedules, complex drawings, BOMs, and time records.
• High level knowledge of product specifications and customer requirements.
• Ability to plan, supervise, and perform essential job functions of assigned areas.
• Ability to identify and count parts and subassemblies to complete internal inventory.
• Competent to an intermediate level in equipment, processes, and tools for equipment production.
• Ability to read and interpret written instructions, procedures and drawings with minimum supervision.
• High School math skills including the ability to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
• Ability to read and interpret work/parts orders and drawings and a thorough knowledge of company products and assembly operations.
• Working knowledge and experience with manufacturing and production KPIs/Analytics including the Production Efficiency (PEFF) system preferred.
• Ability to operate a variety of material handling equipment (forklift, hand truck, pallet jack, scales, and cameras) while carefully observing material handling safety rules.
• Knowledge of various manual/air/electrically operated tools and jigs including wrenches, crimp tools, soldering irons, wire wrap tools and strippers, spray degreasers, or cleaning units.
• Possess Industrial Control Panel experience that includes ability to read electrical schematics, understand voltages and components used, how to use a DMM (Digital Multimeter), and possess basic troubleshooting experience.

Other Qualifications, Experience, or Requirements:

• Bi-lingual (English, Spanish) preferred.
• Consistent attendance and punctuality.

• Willingness to work in a manufacturing environment in a hands-on role.
• Must be willing to work a flexible schedule including ability to work a fixed or rotating shift schedule and daily or weekend overtime.
• Work beyond the traditional 40 hours per week may be required as workload or projects dictate, including weekends and holidays.

4. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The phrases “occasionally,” “regularly,” and “frequently” correspond to the following definitions: “occasionally” means up to 1/3 of working time, “regularly” means between 1/3 and 2/3 of working time, and “frequently” means 2/3 and more of working time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to handle or touch objects or controls and talk and/or hear. 
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, squat or crouch.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds while performing duties such as operating tools and equipment and/or moving parts or product. 

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy items (100 or more pounds) working as a team with another employee while moving completed assembled products.
• Specific vision requirements of this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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