Production Shift Lead

Madden Industrial Craftsmen is looking for an experienced and reliable Swing Shift Supervisor for a client located in Portland, Oregon who specializes in commercial recycling.

• The Shift Lead directly supervises and is responsible for employees in the plant environment, managing safety, employee relations, productivity, quality, and cost containment.

• The Shift Lead is also responsible for production, efficiency, KPI’s, shipping, and receiving.

• The Shift Lead will be responsible for start and close of shift and ensures there is adequate communication between Shift Leads to ensure the smooth, productive, and efficient transition between shifts.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintains a high degree of visibility and access to employees throughout the shift to ensure effective employee relations.

• Monitoring of the various work areas throughout the duration of shift to ensure that all operations are being addressed and work performed to standards.

• Develops and drives a daily plan for the shift and adjusts activities to support the needs of the sort line as well as inbound and outbound product movements per the shipping schedule. Adjusts the plan as needed to ensure the shift/daily goals are met.

• Provides regular employee coaching, development, and evaluation.

• Balances Safety, productivity, quality, and employee morale to drive positive results in all areas.

• Completes quality, production, and efficiency data tracking to ensure opportunities for improvements are communicated.

• Works with other managers to resolve issues and highlight opportunities.

• Maintain Preventive Maintenance checklists, notifying Maintenance Lead when equipment needs service or damage has occurred.

• Support and enforces safe working habits, leads by example, and fosters best work practices.

• Conducts new employee and periodic training / re-training.

• Hourly plant employee scheduling, including coordination time off requests.

• Fills in as needed with rolling stock operators for breaks or when short-handed.

Essential Job Functions

• Demonstrated leadership and communication skills.

• An ability to lead people and get results through positive coaching and team building strategies.

• Ability to think ahead, prepare action plans, and implement, to achieve positive results.

• Must drive to and identify the root cause of a problem and provide recommendations for solutions and/or implement solutions.

• Must be willing to work in an evolving work environment where change and continuous improvement are the rules, not the exceptions.

• Must have a winning attitude that upsets conventional thinking, does not accept complacency or allows the same old thinking to maintain the status quo.

• Must be a team player whose maintain interest is the success of the total team.

• Employee coaching and mentoring as well as performance reviews and progressive discipline as necessary.

• Must be able to create and maintain excel spreadsheets for production and efficiency reporting, machine up/downtime reporting.

• Light duty maintenance, and equipment service such as fluids and fuel.

• The Lead must exhibit good customer service skills while dealing with vendors and suppliers.

Job Specifications

• Ability to pass a criminal background investigation and pre-employment drug screen.

• Must be equipment certified (forklift, and front-end loader) within first ninety days of employment.

• This position is in a production warehouse and logistics environment.

• Must be able to work independently and with little direct supervision.

• May be required to work outside normal business operating hours, including weekends and holidays.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent

• Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) a plus

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

• 5+ years of experience supervising staff, preferably in a production/warehouse environment.

• Basic Microsoft Office skill set.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary

• 401K Contribution

• Medical/Dental/Vision/LTD/Life Benefits

• Paid Holidays with Generous PTO Package