Description

Superintendent

With thousands of employees worldwide, teamwork and collaboration are valued here.

We look for employees who are driven, determined and ready to accelerate their future. By joining our team, you will earn competitive pay, benefits, insurance, 401k, pension and more while working in an environment with the highest safety standards in the industry.

The Position: The Superintendent coordinates and directs the activities of a wide variety of production department(s) or even a production shift in processing materials and manufacturing products. Purpose is to ensure the delivery of products safely, on time, within budget, and at the expected quality level per engineering drawings.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure individual and employee compliance with all safety rules and requirements.
• Defines direct labor staffing plans based on production volume, prepares line for successful start of next shift, manages rework/defects/scrap and implements root cause corrective actions.
• Ensures accurate and timely completion of NPO records and NCM processes.
• Manage and coach Supervisors, in the application of lean concepts to ensure Safety, Quality, On-time delivery and cost targets are achieved. This will include the following:
• Safety observations, 5s reviews, Developing the supervisor’s leadership of BBS to yield a culture of safety
• BIQ board walks to improve the BIQ capabilities of the team. Ensuring sort team are functioning properly and the proper feedback responses are timely and accurate. Timely follow up on RCCA actions to ensure sustainability of changes.
• Ensures supervisors are reviewing standard work with ME/IE department, timely and accurate maintenance of the training matrices and that standard work compliance is being audited and sustained.
• STC board walks to build/improve schedule and timing control capabilities. Advising ME/IE and Ops manager on proper overspeed, ensure delay capture is accurate, making sure bottlenecks are clearly known, and proper resources are applied to eliminate constraints. That the sorting and feedback process is functionally properly based on the timeliness and accuracy of the plant input.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizations policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, training employees, planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and conflict resolution.
• Drives a culture of safety helping to build an intrinsically motivated workforce to follow all safety guidelines, providing the proper balance of recognition and discipline to reach compliance.
• Support the Scheduling process and Production engineering reviews to identify discrepancies prior to line starts.
• Communicate with the Operations Manager, and other Superintendents across shifts, and plant management staff to resolve any issues and ensure safety, employee, tooling, and quality concerns are addressed while maintainingthe production schedule.
• Other duties as assigned.

Competencies:

• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers;gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Integrity & Trust: Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
• Functional Technical Skills: Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
• Confronting Direct Reports: Deals with problem direct reports firmly and in a timely manner; doesn’t allow problems to fester; regularly reviews performance and holds timely discussions; can make negative decisions when all other efforts fail; deals effectively with troublemakers.
• Managing and Measuring Work: Clearly assigns responsibility for tasks and decisions; sets clear objectives and measures; monitors process, progress, and results; designs feedback loops into work.
• Motivating Others: Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; can motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project members; can assess each person’s hot button and use it to get the best out of him/her; pushes tasks and decisions down; empowers others; invites input from each person and shares ownership and visibility; makes each individual feel his/her work is important; is someone people like working for and with.
• Priority Setting: Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Education: GED or high school diploma is required. College degree preferred.
• Experience: 3-5 years of related and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to motivate a team to work together towards a common goal, sharing the path to achieve it, motivating others to take the journey with you and assisting in removing roadblocks.
• A progressive history of supervision and/or leadership in previous positions is highly required.
• Demonstrate understanding of an effective safety culture
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suites with emphasis on the ability to navigate and formulate within Excel.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry, to write reports, business correspondences, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret production and Manufacturing and Industrial engineering prints and designs.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
• Travel: None.

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