Purpose of the Position: Responsible for supervision of the production floor on a daily basis and continuous improvement of production activities and outcomes.
Job Duties
Supervising
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Manages competencies in his/her team by developing skills through training.
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Ensuring all appropriate documentation for training is signed and understood by the responsible associates.
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Provides job assignments throughout the day.
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Evaluates the working relationship of his/her team.
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Maintains knowledge on all workstations and understands their sequence of operation.
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Escalates to quality, engineering, safety, maintenance, and upper management if needed.
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Responsible for coaching troubleshooting with team leader and associates prior to escalating an issue.
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Responsible for shift pass down with prior and following shift supervisors.
Auditing
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Responsible for auditing all first part validations and that each is completed, and all are conforming to specifications.
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Responsible for auditing the cleanliness of each station.
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Responsible of auditing near misses and/or accident action closure.
Resolution Issues
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Leads and participates in daily production status meetings.
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Uses problem solving tools to prevent or solve problems – participates in problem solving meetings where the team is involved.
Compliance to Customer Requirements
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Ensures adherence to production plan, able to reorganize and prioritize as needed.
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Ensure that all products are produced in compliance with latest customer requirements and quality expectations.
Achieving Plante Performance Goals
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Ensures quantity and quality of work performed by team members.
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Ensuring correctness of the daily data including scrap reported by Team Leads
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Maintains the productivity of the equipment under his/her supervisor and the correct inventory level of in-process materials.
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Responsible for sending End of Shift report with eh status of their shift to the production plan.
Continuous Improvement
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Participates in continuous improvement workshops.
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Maintains trends of results from continuous improvement actions.
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Assists quality representative in conducting scrap meetings.
Safety and Environmental
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Ensures that all employees are trained and compliant in the safe operation of equipment and plant-specific safety (ESD & PPE) and environmental concerns.
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In coordination with department managers, conducts monthly shift meetings with employees to cover various topics to include safety, quality, etc.
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Reports near misses and any accident (minor or emergent) written and orally when it occurs.
Employee Engagement
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Reports, addresses, and documents counseling pertaining to employee-related concerns, e.g. attendance, performance, etc. and communicates to department management and human resources as required.
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Welcomes new hires and new to shift.
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Requests additional team members with department management when required.
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Provides performance feedback with team members.
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Encourages and motivates employees in work performance, open/constructive communications, problem solving and communicates any employee improvement ideas.
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Daily documentation in the HRIS (human resource information system) for timecards, approval of PTO, and employee tracking of hours to minimize unnecessary overtime and absenteeism.
Authority:
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To supervise and make recommendations relating to production team members and/or processes and equipment. Make recommendations and communicate regularly with Production Manager and other company department and team members.
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All employees have a quality and safety responsibility; therefore, having the authority to stop work processes to correct quality and/or safety problems, or quarantine items in the appropriate designated area until the issues are resolved.
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The Production Supervisor has the authority to stop the production and the delivery of a product or a family of product if the quality of these products is suspect or compromised.
Accountabilities:
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Maintains production planning (PDP) file and scheduling of employees.
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Maintains main production and quality KPI
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Adhere to and implement everything in his/her power to achieve the Quality, Safety, and Environmental objectives and reduce the environmental impacts related to the activity of Electricfil Automotive.
Reporting:
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Analyze functional quality test data and propose potential failure modes to team.
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Methodical, capable of analyzing quality problems and providing a concise written summary to management.
Quality:
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Responsible to ensure the quality of the product is meeting the expected level.
Internal and/or external contacts:
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(Internally) Individual will interface with management & all levels of personnel within the organization.
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(Internally) Individual will work closely with others at EFC and EFI Automotive, locally and globally, as needed.
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(Externally) Individual will interface with customer and vendor representatives, including participation in customer audits and visits as requested.
Responsibilities
Staff: 10 – 50
Budget: NA
Revenue: NA
Expenditure: NA
Job Requirements
Education and/or Experience:
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High School diploma or equivalent required. Degree in a technical field preferred.
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Five or more years of experience in the automotive industry or similar position required.
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Experience with problem solving tools (8Ds, Fishbone diagram, 5-Why, cause and effect data.
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Ability to conduct meetings and perform as a facilitator using English required.
Special knowledge (languages, IT, etc.):
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Communication/negotiation/meeting facilitation.
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Fluent in business English, IT literate.
Supplemental Requirements for Advancement:
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Additional training in supervision, coaching, employee motivation.
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Additional certifications (Allen Bradley PLC programming/troubleshooting).
Functional capacity requirements:
Note: In terms of an 8-hour workday, “Occasionally” equals 1% to 33%; “Frequently” equals 34% to 66%, and “Continuously” equals 67% to 100% of the time.
In an 8-hour workday the jobholder should be able to:
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Occasionally sit.
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Continuously stand and walk.
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Occasionally bend/stoop, squat, twist, push/pull, kneel and crouch.
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Occasionally reach above shoulder level.
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Occasionally carry/lift up to fifty (50) pounds, as in a case of paper or a file box.
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Continuously use his/her hands/fingers for the repetitive actions of simple and firm manipulation/grasping, as in operating a computer keyboard or touch tone telephone.
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Occasionally use his/her head and neck in flexing and rotating.
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Continuously be around manufacturing working conditions.
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Continuously be in a climate (heated/air-conditioned) controlled environment.
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Continuously be around moving machinery.
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Work in an ESD controlled Environment
Signature HR Manager:
Signature Production Manager:
Signature Production Supervisor:
Revision History
Initial Release
07/07/2017
Newly created position to correspond with change in production organization.
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F. Lauria / E. Shores / JP Cannuyer
Rev 1
12/05/2019
Updated direct reports
R. Mayhall
Rev2
06/14/2023
Updated for current supervisor tasks
P. Leahy / B. Akkaya
Rev 3
01/30/2025
Format Change
W. Leslie
