Position Title:Operations Supervisor - Sarnia Reports To: Regional Sales Manager
Summary Overview:This position provides manufacturing leadership and excellence to build a world-class operation. Lead, motivate, and develop employees to achieve outstanding manufacturing performance results, while leveraging Continuous Improvement (Lean/5S/6 Sigma) tools, improving individual skills, enhancing teamwork, focusing on plant production including safety, on-time delivery, quality control, protection of equipment, and departmental cost controls.
Primary Accountabilities & Result Areas:
- Manage and develop production employees to achieve established goals of safety, quality, service, cost, and environmental performance.
- Programming of CNC equipment (e.g. Lathe and Water Jet); as well as first piece inspection and verification.
- Create and distribute production schedules for all areas of manufacturing.
Typical Duties, Actions and Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with all safety procedures including: equipment, material handling and operations while maintaining healthy and safe work place.
- Implement Lean Manufacturing, 5S and 6Sigmaprinciples in production area.
- Supervise, co-ordinate and schedule activities of employees.
- Program and/or set up Haas ST30 lathe and Flow Water Jet Cutter.
- Ensure personnel are trained and capable of executing their daily duties.
- Lead and develop a positive, engaged and contributing workforce.
- Lead regular production toolbox and safety meetings.
- Maintain documentation as required.
- Communicate business and operational data to employees daily.
- Read and interpret drawings for translation to employees to ensure items are built to the customer’s specifications.
- Maintain a clean, organized shop environment.
- Determine and execute optimum manufacturing processes.
- Assistance in training employees in problem solving techniques and on-the-spot production troubleshooting.
Experience Qualifications and Related Skills:
- 5 to 10 years supervision experience; preferably in an union environment.
- Strong production management skills.
- Experience with Water Jet Cutting and CNC Turning Centres.
- Demonstrated experience using Continuous Improvement or related strategies (Lean, TPM, and Six Sigma) to drive performance.
- Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.
- Ability to identify problems, develop creative solutions, and implement those solutions even in the face of adversity.
- Excellent verbal communication and strong documentation and written skills.
- Intermediate to advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office, and CAD software.
- Comfortable with changing priorities.
- Highly motivated and self-directed individual with the capability to multi-task.
Education Qualifications:
- LEAN Manufacturing or similar Quality/Manufacturing certification an asset
- CNC Operator Certificate or Machinist Ticket an asset
- CAD Drawing Certificate an asset
Working Conditions & Physical Demands:
- High paced work environment with shifting priority
- On production floor up to 40% of the time
- Routine noise and temperature extremes
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