1ST SHIFT PRESS ROOM SUPERVISOR - LORAIN, OHIO
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Production Supervisor is responsible for leading daily manufacturing operations within robotic and manual welding cells and the press shop.
This Position ensures that production targets are achieved safely, with the required quality, efficiency, labor utilization, and delivery performance.
The Supervisor provides direct shop-floor leadership, assigns employees, monitors hourly performance, addresses production interruptions, enforces standardized work and coordinates support from Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, Tooling, Materials & Safety.
Maintain a strong safety presence on the production floor.
Ensure all employees follow plant safety rules, personal protective equipment requirements, lockout/tagout procedures, machine-guarding requirements, and safe work practices.
Conduct daily pre-shift safety meetings and communicate applicable safety alerts.
Complete safety observations, layered process audits, housekeeping inspections, and corrective-action follow-up.
Stop production immediately when unsafe conditions or behaviors are identified.
Ensure operators are properly trained and authorized before operating welding equipment, presses, cranes, forklifts, robots, or other machinery.
Investigate incidents, near misses, first-aid cases, and unsafe conditions using structured root-cause analysis.
Maintain clean and organized work areas through 5S standards.
Ensure emergency stops, light curtains, guards, interlocks, and other safety devices are functional and never bypassed.
Coordinate with EHS and Maintenance to close safety concerns promptly.
Welding Cell Responsibilities:
Supervise robotic and manual MIG welding operations.
Monitor weld quality, including porosity, burn-through, undercut, cold welds, missed welds, excessive spatter, wire-feed issues, and weld-location concerns.
Ensure weld parameters, programs, fixtures, clamps, tips, nozzles, liners, wire, gas flow, and consumables are controlled.
Confirm that operators complete required tip changes, nozzle cleaning, fixture cleaning, and basic autonomous-maintenance tasks.
Ensure robotic programs and weld parameters are not changed without proper authorization.
Escalate robot faults, fixture issues, clamp failures, sensor problems, and repeated weld defects.
Coordinate with Welding Engineering, Controls, Maintenance, Tooling, and Quality to restore stable production.
Verify that red-rabbit tests, destructive testing, weld verification, poke-yoke checks, and required quality checks are completed.
Monitor tooling and fixture conditions to prevent dimensional variation, damaged components, and improper clamping.
Ensure weld spatter, smoke extraction, fume-control systems, and housekeeping standards are properly managed.
Press-Shop Responsibilities:
Supervise press operations, including progressive, transfer, tandem, or manual press processes as applicable.
Ensure presses, dies, feeders, straighteners, coils, scrap conveyors, sensors, guards, and material-handling equipment are operated safely.
Verify die setup, first-off approval, material identification, coil changes, and production changeovers.
Monitor press-part quality for splits, cracks, wrinkles, burrs, dents, dimensional variation, missing holes, improper forms, and surface defects.
Coordinate die repairs, press maintenance, lubrication concerns, feeder problems, sensor faults, and material-quality issues.
Ensure die-protection sensors and safety devices are operational and never bypassed.
Monitor press speed, strokes per minute, downtime, scrap rates, die-change time, and overall equipment effectiveness.
Ensure scrap is properly collected, weighed, identified, and removed from the production area.
Support SMED and die-change improvement activities.
Maintain clear communication with Tooling, Maintenance, Materials, Quality, and Production Control regarding press-shop conditions.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Associate or Bachelor s Degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred.
Minimum of three to five years of manufacturing experience.
Minimum of two years of supervisory or team-leadership experience in an automotive or high-volume manufacturing environment.
Experience supervising welding cells, press-shop operations, metal fabrication, stamping, or assembly operations.
Working knowledge of robotic and manual MIG welding processes.
Understanding of press operations, tooling, dies, material flow, and production changeovers.
Knowledge of safety requirements, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, PPE, and incident investigation.
Understanding of quality systems, standardized work, control plans, PFMEA, layered process audits, and defect containment.
Ability to read production reports, quality data, work instructions, and basic engineering drawings.
Strong problem-solving, communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to production interruptions.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, production-reporting systems, and ERP/MRP systems.
Automotive Tier 1 manufacturing experience.
Experience with FANUC, Yaskawa Motoman, ABB, KUKA, or similar robotic welding systems.
Experience with progressive, transfer, or tandem presses.
Knowledge of IATF 16949 and customer-specific requirements.
Experience with Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, SMED, OEE, and continuous improvement.
Experience with 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, Pareto analysis, and structured corrective action.
Bilingual English and Spanish skills are beneficial.
TO APPLY:
If you are a high performer and would like to work for an equally high performing company and you think the above opportunity is appropriate for you, we invite you to submit your resume in Microsoft Word format to: GHubbard@Venteon.com
We treat all resumes with strict confidentiality. We will always contact you first before submitting your resume to our client(s) for review. If you do not receive correspondence, you are not a fit for this position.
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