What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Supervisor position at SUPERIOR ESSEX?
Essential Functions/Duties:
• Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products in assigned areas.
• Makes personnel assignments, maintains housekeeping and safety standards, administers policies and procedures, observes assigned employees to ensure compliance with production, quality and safety standards and conducts employee performance evaluations/appraisals.
• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays and executes instructions from production management.
• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization as well as provide instructions on proper operation.
• Assists engineering personnel with new processes and designs.
• Enforces rules, resolves worker complaints and problems and submits unresolved situations to production management for action.
• Completes, maintains and forwards relative production data and assists with monthly inventory.
• Other duties as assigned.
Skills and Abilities Required:
• Directly supervises employees in the assigned production area/shift. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizations policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include training employees, planning, assigning and directing work; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving issues; Enforcing applicable policies and procedures.
• Must be able to work 12 hour shifts with 75 percent of the time on the manufacturing floor observing the operation and interacting with employees.
