Production Supervisor

Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:

• Responsible to manage, lead and supervise a team to achieve the organization objectives.
• Be the area owner and accountable for the area/section performance metric such as safety, quality, delivery, cost, ROCK (Remove, Organize, Clean, Keep), etc.
• Ensure the production team is clearly communicated with company policies, EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) and quality regulatory requirements and comply with it at all time.
• Responsible for End of Month (EOM) meeting in order to show and explain the work center results with the assemblers and let them know the corporate goals.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meeting, weekly stand up meeting with the associate as part of communication to provide/receive update, feedback and discuss about personal development and calibrate on expectation.
• Ensure a safe working environment for associates with enforcement on PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) compliance and LOTO (Lock Out Tag Out) application.
• Ensure product is produced according to the print in order to meet the industry standards and customer expectations for quality.
• Proactively look into quality improvement to ensure OD and PPM meet the corporate target.
• Contain and investigate any quality issue timely (together with MQS/technician etc.) in order to minimize the cost impact and escapee to customer.
• Responsible to support, work with and ensure OSS schedule the order according to the due date and batching opportunity, confirm material availability to deliver the order to customer timely.
• Work with OSS to manage the expedite system, rescheduling code and realistic date.
• Manage the machine capacity and people capacity (this includes the associate work schedule like OT, time off, vacation etc.) with alignment to the order schedule.
• Ensure orders are executed according to Samtec Golden Rule.
• Responsible for overall cost performance in your cost center. Manage the Over Time according to business requirement, drive for scrap and productivity improvement to reduce cost.
• Communicate to Techs on priority and engage them in troubleshooting defective tooling that may cause efficiency or quality concern.
• Walk the line frequently to know what is happening in the line and able to address the issue timely with the team.
• Monitor and review metric regularly and responsible to initiate, implement and work closely with relevant party to drive continuous improvement.

Required Experience:

• 3 – 5 Years’ Experience in Manufacturing, Production, or Supervision.  Small part manufacturing is preferred.
• Strong in data analysis and is data driven.
• Experience with Process knowledge for related area.
• Excellent problem solving, investigation skills, and needs to be detail oriented.
• People management and leadership skills.
• Understand manufacturing concept, experience in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma is preferred.
• Must possess good communication skills – written & verbal.
• Must be able to use Microsoft Office Software (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access)
• Team player and must be able to work with multiple groups of people (Operators, Floor Managers, Engineers, etc.)

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other Technical discipline is required.
• Experience may be substituted for educational requirements.