Production Supervisor

Are you ready to forge a thrilling career in metals production? Join our dynamic team at Plymouth Tube as a Production Supervisor and lead the charge in shaping the future of precision engineering with a dash of excitement every day! Check us out at: (See what we do, what it's like to work with us, benefits, and the TV Shows we've been on.) Celebrating 100 years in 2024, Plymouth Tube Company is a fifth-generation family-owned, precision metals manufacturer. Our products include tubing, extruded shapes, and cold-drawn shapes spanning specialty carbon, alloy, stainless steel, nickel alloy, and titanium. Headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois, with seven plants in the U.S. and one in Germany, Plymouth is known for offering industry-leading service levels and unique technical innovations. We have a great family-based culture guided by these four values: People, Customer Focus, Community & Environment, and Long-Term Orientation. These values serve as pillars to support our mission statement: 'We are committed to providing products and services that meet or exceed our customers' expectations. Plymouth Tube is looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious team member to join our Production team. This person must embrace change, be self-motivated, and inspire others inside and outside the department. The individual should be able to communicate directly and openly with all levels in our organization. There will be many opportunities for the successful candidate to engage their innovative and creative problem-solving skills to help move the department to the next level. It is a must that the Production Supervisor has a high degree of personal integrity in dealing with customers, superiors, subordinates, and co-workers and will represent Plymouth Tube Company in a professional manner. The successful candidate will live both in the big picture as well as in the details, desire to make an impact, and work well in a team and individually. ABOUT THE JOB: This position will be responsible for safety, managing movement of products through the facility, ensuring maximum productivity, fostering a workforce that is focused on continuous improvement, and overall day to day operational supervision. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Ensuring movement of materials and products through facility stays on schedule and manage overall day to day operational tasks. * Actively engaging in problem-solving issues that will negatively impact production operations. * Actively promote a safe working environment for all employees by identifying un-safe behaviors / activities and implementing safe work practices / procedures. * Communicating with others in the organization to coordinate operations and activities between departments and ensure overall direction of the organization is understood by front-line employees. * Scheduling and overseeing daily completion of PPMs for production equipment, notify maintenance of equipment breakdowns and properly assigns machine operators daily to ensure a timely completion of orders. * Assisting with continuous improvements of processes leading to improved safety, quality, yields, delivery performance, productivity, and cost control. * Enforcing compliance with applicable policies, safety rules, plant rules and contractual commitments. * Promoting working relationships will foster a high level of employee morale. * Completing performance reviews for direct reports to communicate individual and company goals, individual job performance, and developmental opportunities. * Interpreting specifications and job orders to employees and assigning duties. * Performing other duties and assignments as assigned. * You will own and role model Plymouth Tube values and behaviors by embracing and participating in an operating culture that promotes involvement, communication, mutual trust & respect, expectations and accountability, and a passion for excellence. * Understanding, apply and advocate all Company Environmental and Safety policies, procedures, and standards. * Understand, apply, and advocate all Company Quality Standards. * Attend all prerequisite training as required by management. * You'll have the authority to stop processes to correct quality, safety, or environmental problems, and to promptly notify Supervisory personnel when processes are noncompliant. * You will supervise 5-30 hourly union production workers. * Other duties as assigned. WHAT YOU'LL NEED: Bachelor's degree preferred (BUT A DEGREE IS NOT REQUIRED) High school degree required and 1-3 years minimum work experience in a manufacturing facility preferred and or training, or equivalent combo of education and experience. You'll also need experience as a previous Production Supervisor in a manufacturing environment. WHAT WE OFFER YOU: * Benefits effective 30 days from date of hire. * Medical, Dental and Vision, HSA, FSA * 401k Matching, Life Insurance, STD/LTD * 100% covered tuition reimbursement (including books & reasonable expenses) * Wellness Program / Lifestyle Rewards / Employee Assistance Program (EAP) * Paid Time Off & Holidays * Career Arching: Plymouth allows for a great depth & breadth of knowledge in which you can wear many hats and be exposed to several opportunities. COMPETENCIES/DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS: Core Competencies * Care & Commitment: Consistently reliable, follows work instructions, investigates any inconsistencies, and looks ahead to the next steps. Offers ideas for improvements (safety, operations, process, and quality) and actively participates in improvement processes. Accepts change as part of future state improvement and adapts with positive enthusiasm. * Team Player: Steps up to help the team even when it's outside of normal duties or comfort zone, looks out for the safety of self and team. Cooperates with others without dominating the group, values team members for their contributions and professional abilities, and always treats people with respect. Communicates ideas respectfully, honestly, and clearly, and considers the suggestions and opinions of others. * Customer Focus: Seeks out information on customer requirements, stops a process when an inconsistency is suspected, and reports inconsistencies to the right person. Involves customers and seeks best resource before moving forward with key decisions; follows through on promises made to internal/external customer. Delivers accurate product, services, and paperwork to the next operation. * Initiative: Initiates problem solving to address issues, acts without being told or directed, actively participates in resolution, seeks best alternative even if it challenges the status quo. Does and says the right things for the right reasons even when it's uncomfortable, speaks up immediately when seeing a safety hazard, a process error, or problem to resolve. Acts with sense of urgency: Gives immediate attention to tasks or issues that prevent organization from reaching goals, rethinks priorities and organizes work to achieve goals or get goals back on track. Additional Competencies * Operations: Demonstrates sound knowledge of the production process from start to finish, proficient in the technical requirements of position (systems and visual), continues to improve skills in this area. Effective in planning manpower and resources to achieve hourly, daily, and weekly goals, resolves issues or roadblocks immediately. Adapts plans quickly when priorities change, effectively communicates changes, holds others and self-accountable in achieving goals regardless of changing environment. * Leadership: Leads by Example by positively communicating goals with a "can do" attitude, being a resource for own team as well as other departments, and offering ideas and opinions that improve processes or environment. Inspires people to participate with others, listens to opinions, is effective in coaching others in how to reach goals, and celebrates successes. Respectful yet firm and consistent in performance feedback, is timely in resolving performance issues, fosters a high level of accountability. * Continuous Improvement: Consistent in performing standard work, problem solves department triggers, plans, and leads effective meetings, achieves improvements to KPI. Follows up and follows through on action items, uses visuals and data to communicate changes, works with Plant Manager to identify improvement opportunities. Audits lean improvements for sustainability, viability, and validation, and maintain improvements. Whew! That's a lot of stuff! Oh yeah, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran Other details * Job Function Group 1 * Pay Type Salary Apply Now * East Troy, WI 53120, USA

Created: 2024-11-02