Production Supervisor

Powell Fabrication & Manufacturing, LLC • Saint Louis, MI • 3d ago

The Production Supervisor reports to the Chief Operating Officer. This position oversees and manages projects, production employees, facilities maintenance, and ensures compliance with company safety and quality standards. Drives continuous improvement initiatives, coaches the team to own problemsolving on the shop floor, and fosters a strong culture of employee engagement.

Essential Functions:

Oversees production operations and daily workflow and assignments of production personnel, ensuring goals are aligned with and representative of the overall company directive. ? Ensures effective two-way communication by escalating production team concerns to leadership and cascading leadership's vision, directives, and updates back to the team. ? Maintains staff by training and developing personal growth opportunities for production employees and self. ? Coordinates production schedules with project managers, supply chain manager and sales personnel to maximize production efficiency on all projects and ensures on-time completion for sales orders, stock jobs, highly engineered (HE) projects, and RMA rebuilds. ? Supervises multiple ongoing projects and works independently without direct supervision. ? Reviews blueprints and BOMs to verify materials, special options, and escalate discrepancies. ? Identifies and reports any nonconformance to drawings, specifications, or Powell standards, especially safety-critical issues, and ensures corrective actions are documented and communicated. ? Drives continuous improvement initiatives and coaches the team to own problem-solving on the shop floor. ? Oversees troubleshooting of process, build, or quality issues, ensures the team works through first-pass fixes, and escalates more complex technical problems to Engineering. ? Maintains knowledge of processes and equipment. ? Ensures production reports, time records and job data are updated in a timely and accurate manner. ? Oversees the effective management of facilities maintenance, ensuring the upkeep and functionality of all physical spaces, equipment, and systems to create a safe and efficient working environment. ? Maintains a clean and safe working environment and ensures that employees comply with applicable safety regulations and procedures in accordance with company policies. ? Always wears company-approved safety equipment and notifies the appropriate staff of defective safety equipment when identified. Is responsible for ceasing work if defective safety equipment is evident.

Ensures required safety training for authorized employees is administered and that training

materials are maintained in compliance with OSHA, other regulatory bodies, and Powell policy. ? Works additional hours as required, and performs other job-related duties and expectations ascommunicated by management. ? Follows and enforces Powell procedures and policies at all times.

Job Qualifications -- Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: ? Thorough understanding of, or the ability to quickly learn, production operations and machinery. ? Proven ability to lead teams and develop a culture of buy-in on new processes and improvements. ? Skilled at delegation, coaching and accountability. ? Experience using continuous improvement tools. ? Exceptional leadership, communication, organizational, and time-management skills. ? Knowledge of and experience with OSHA regulations and industrial safety programs ? Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. ? Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate. ? Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software to complete reports and logs. ? Must be able to stand; walk; sit; use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; squat; climb

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