ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Primary Functions Statement(s)

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  Assist the supervisor to manage staff and resources, ensuring safety, quality and productivity goals and expectations are met or exceeded.
• Assist the supervisor to develop and maintain the production schedule and coordinate the necessary resources to meet or exceed customer expectations in cooperation with customers, sales, and other departments as appropriate.
• Assist the supervisor in coordination with other supervisors/shifts to ensure that customer orders are completed on time and that any issues are communicated and addressed from shift-to-shift.
• Assist the supervisor to maintain inventory control, to perform production entries and to manage production planning (including investigating and adjusting negative on hand, transactions, work order management, and other issues as appropriate) along with associated reporting requirements.
• Review, verify and enter daily production data, including labor entries, materials issued, scrap and/or other data as required.
• Perform inventory cycle counts and make corrections/reconciliations as needed.
• Assist the supervisor to develop, to maintain and to issue work orders, machine schedules, department schedules and daily job assignments for staff.
• Perform time studies to verify machine rates, evaluate production rates for hourly employees and address any issues in cooperation with the supervisor.
• Identify and support staffing and training needs for the division in cooperation with division and shift supervisors, human resources and the plant manager.
• Assist the supervisor to mentor staff, providing guidance and feedback where appropriate.
• Communicate employee performance to the supervisor.
• Ensure housekeeping is maintained in all areas and address any deficiencies.
• Administer company rules, policies, procedures and performance expectations.
• Identify and support opportunities for improvement in cooperation with the supervisor to drive operational efficiencies and effectiveness, eliminate waste, reduce cost, improve customer satisfaction, and/or improve employee satisfaction.
• Attend production/operations meetings, address action items from those meetings and manage the shift and division in the absence of the supervisor with the assistance of the plant manager as needed.
• Other Miscellaneous duties as assigned.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Competency Statement(s)

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  Accuracy – Ability to perform work correctly and thoroughly.
• Analytical Skills – Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve problems.
• Coaching and Development – Ability to provide guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas.
• Communication, Oral – Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Communication, Written – Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely in both narrative and technical format.
• Conflict Resolution – Ability to deal with others calmly and rationally in an antagonistic situation.
• Decision Making – Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Honesty / Integrity – Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
• Interpersonal Skills – Ability to get along well with a variety of personalities and individuals.
• Management Skills – Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively supervise others.
• Organized – Ability to develop and follow a systematic method of performing tasks, scheduling work, and delegating assignments in a logical, efficient, and effective manner.
• Persistence – Ability to complete tasks or continue in a course of action in spite of opposition or discouragement.
• Reliability – Must be dependable and trustworthy.
• Safety Awareness – Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
• Technical Skills & Process Oriented – Ability to demonstrate an understanding of manufacturing procedures, processes, functions, systems, interactions, key control points, and critical characteristics.
• Training – Ability to develop a particular skill in others to bring them up to a predetermined standard of work performance.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Education:

Experience:

2 plus years of experience in a manufacturing setting as a group/team lead and/or related experience overseeing staff.

Computer Skills:

MS Office, including Word and Excel. ERP experience preferred.

Other Requirements:

First Aid, CPR and Bloodborne Pathogens certification preferred.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Frequently on the production floor, which is a typical manufacturing facility with moderate noise levels, with the balance of time spent in an office setting at a computer and/or handling associated paperwork.