Safety

• Lead start-up and shift safety meetings, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA and company standards and set the example for your team.

People

• Hire, train, coach, and develop your team.
• Give performance feedback and handle discipline consistently with company policy.
• Build a culture of teamwork, accountability, and respect.
• Schedule coverage for absences, vacations, and overtime.

Operations

• Run daily production to meet safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost targets.
• Own shift production output and deliver the expected results needed to meet customer commitments.
• Ensure on-time delivery by reviewing production schedules and planning labor, equipment, and materials so each shift starts ready to hit its output goals.
• Track hourly and shift performance against targets, and act quickly on downtime, scrap, or bottlenecks that put output or delivery dates at risk.
• Communicate shift results, issues, and handoff needs clearly to the next shift and plant leadership.
• Lead and support continuous improvement projects.
• Work with plant leadership to solve problems and improve shift results.

• 5+ years of manufacturing experience
• 2+ years supervising a team in a manufacturing setting
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and negotiation skills
• Clear communication and leadership
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, logistics, or a related field (equivalent experience considered)
• Automotive Industry preferred
• Lean and/or Six Sigma background