Production Supervisor - Victor Stanley

Who we are

Victor Stanley is a proud member of the PlayCore family. We are a leader in quality site furnishings, which helps you bring your visions to life. From benches and bike racks to smart litter receptacles, which use our Relay Sensor and Service to enable efficient collection routing, we meticulously design, engineer and manufacture every detail to ensure our site furnishings will withstand the test of time. Celebrating over 60 years, we help create a place for people to gather, live life and make timeless moments.

Benefits

Excellent benefits package. Benefits options include paid time off, 11 paid holidays, health (single and family), vision, dental, life, disability, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity protection, and pet insurance on the first day of full-time employment. Other options include an education reimbursement, flexible spending account (FSA) and a health savings account (HAS) for eligible employees. Potential annual bonus. A 401(k) plan with employer match available after 60 days of employment.

Summary:

The Production Supervisor is responsible for supervising the production operations in assigned areas to manufacture products; plan, schedule, and assign work in such a manner as to manufacture the product within safety, quality, delivery and cost objectives; investigate and resolve problems; observe and review operations; recommend changes involving equipment and work methods; take corrective action when needed; coordinate activities between departments; keep managers and other supervisors informed; and perform other duties as directed.

The supervisor's job is to organize their department and employees, visualize future impacts and needs, energize the employees to complete their tasks, and supervise their work, ensuring that productivity and quality standards are met. To achieve this, the supervisor ensures that employees have the training, tools, and materials they need to carry out their duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead, supervise, evaluate, and coach personnel to maximize the efficiency and quality of the work performed.
• Review equipment operations to ensure reliability.
• Ensure all manufacturing requirements are met.
• Effectively communicate company and department goals, achievements, problems, solutions, practices, and changes; Enforce all company policies, rules, and regulations.
• Maintain a world-class safe, clean, and organized environment.
• Maintain high ethical standards and integrity; Conduct all operations in a professional and businesslike manner.
• Complete and issue production, maintenance, and project status reports as required.
• Assist as needed by conducting (teaching) in-house training (safety, operational, quality, maintenance, and orientation) classes for employees.
• Work with operators and maintenance to troubleshoot equipment performance/quality issues and causes of breakdowns.
• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in production.
• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
• Demonstrate and document proper equipment operation, work processes, and safety procedures to new employees, or assign experienced workers to carry out training.
• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
• Develop and recommend improvements of facilities, equipment, or procedures to improve safety, quality, delivery and cost.
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Complete production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; accomplishing work results; establishing priorities; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems.

• Actively promotes plant safety improvement and programs including STOP Audits and operator safety checklists.
• Lead and support continuous improvement activities through lean manufacturing tools such as 5s, Root Cause Analysis, and Kaizen participation, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Other Requirements:

• Understanding and adherence to relevant safety regulations and protocols in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team, including assigning tasks, providing training, and motivating employees.
• 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. 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 required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop, kneel, talk or hear. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

PlayCore and its family of brands considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status.