
Production Supervisor
Cooper Standard · Surgoinsville, TN
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level production role at Cooper Standard (automotive) in Surgoinsville, TN. Encourage, support, and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause
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How this role compares
Against 28 other live production postings in Tennessee.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 100%
- Lean 41%
- 5S 41%
- ✓ Root cause 38%
- Six Sigma 28%
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Position Summary
Ensure the achievement of the unit's safety, production, quality, and continuous improvement goals through adequate planning, organization, coordination, and control of its human and technical resources and materials.
Primary
Responsibilities
- ◆Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
- ◆Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
- ◆Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
- ◆Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
- ◆Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
- ◆Identify, control, and communicate risk in operations.
- ◆Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
- ◆Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
- ◆Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- ◆Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
- ◆Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation, and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
- ◆Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
- ◆Encourage, support, and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
- ◆Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
- ◆Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
- ◆Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
- ◆Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
- ◆May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
- ◆Participate in or lead safety-related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
- ◆Ensure that HSE legal and management system
requirements
for work areas are met.
- ✓May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
Qualifications
- ✓Four-year degree or two-year degree in pursuit of a four-year degree with two to four years in supervision and/or more than three years practical experience in supervision/management.
- ✓Mill experience preferred. Ability to identify and resolve day-to-day technical and operational problems.
- ✓Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
- ✓Computer competency required, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
- ✓Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
- ✓Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.
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Work Environment/Work Conditions
- •Professional Office Environment
- •Must wear proper personal protection equipment while on the manufacturing floor
- •Travel to manufacturing facilities or customer locations when required
- •Equipment used requires proper training on the potential for and avoidance of injury
Position Type
Regular
Remote Status
On-site
