About the Voith Group

The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 21,000 employees, sales of € 4.9 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.

For the Voith US Inc., Production department, we are looking for:

Supervisor of Production II
Florence, MS

Reasons you’ll love working here:

Health and safety are a top priority with all of our roles and sites:

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  Career development: Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Voith Learning & Development team creates classes, seminars, and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Voith’s culture, organization, values, and role in the world. Voith also provide Tuition Reimbursement for all employees past the first year of employment.
• Benefits: Our range of offered benefits can include medical, dental, vision, life insurances, starting on first of month on or after date of hire, employee discounts, 401(k) savings plans, service awards, identify of theft production and more! Find out which benefits you'll get after you choose your role with us.
• Life work balance: Paid time off starting at 16 days in your first year of employment plus 10 paid holidays.
• Working Environment: Safe, climate-controlled workshop, clean shop, an average tenure over 10 years of service within Voith.

Summary:

Supervises the daily activities of Inspection, Heat Set, Finishing and shipping departments. Assigns personnel, establishes goals, determines workflow and schedules daily departmental activities. Implements Safety Policies operational policies, quality policies, procedures, and administers discipline/attendance policies. Leads and directs the work of the hourly workforce.

Responsibilities:

• Makes sure that all work is done safely and according to quality standards (Voith), customer requests and other legal requirements;
• Assign hourly employees to their daily tasks/activities to support manufacturing operations schedules.
• Monitor goals and workflow for the hourly workforce.
• Initiates continuous improvement activities and actions to improve departmental processes and workflow.
• Coaches performance and development, provides training, and resolves problems for hourly employees
• Completes all communication and information sharing within the hourly workforce necessary to meet goals.
• Establish, maintain, and continually improve relationships with hourly employees and union officers.
• Conduct timely performance appraisals of hourly personnel.
• Administer company policies and procedures including support of the quality system. This includes disciplinary investigations, actions, and follow-up and administration of the attendance policies.
• Responsible for purchasing of and maintaining departmental consumables and supplies.
• Responsible for timekeeping, direct/rated hours, indirect time and resolving all labor transactions that do not process, reconciling zero balance and timely key closure.
• Schedule predictive and preventive maintenance activities.
• Write operational procedures
• Some travel maybe required for training.
• Monitor production during the month and report numbers.
• Maintain inventory
• JDE Data entry.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED

• 3-5 years of experience in the field or related area
• Good interpersonal skills
• Must have some skills in Excel, Word & Power Point
• JDE exposure (good to have)

Physical Demands:

• This job description is not all encompassing, however, is intended to be a general description of the responsibilities of this position.

Don’t meet every single requirement but think you would be a good fit for our team? We encourage you to apply – your unique skills may be just what we need for this or other roles!

Voith US Inc. is an EEO/AA/VEVRAA compliant Federal Contractor and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry including people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), Veterans, people of any age or family status. We embrace the competitive advantage that diversity brings and we strive to create a working environment that is inclusive of thought and talent.