Manufacturing Supervisor

2 weeks ago

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Woodbridge Full time

The Woodbridge Group a global manufacturer of foam products and just in time assembly & sequencing for diversified products offers innovative urethane and bead foam technologies, to serve the automotive industry and several other business sectors around the globe.

Since its inception in 1978, the company has grown to more than 60 facilities throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.


The key competitive strength for the Woodbridge Group continues to revolve around its people and their commitment to improve everything they do.

With over 8,000 employees worldwide, The Woodbridge Group is focused on evolving workplace safety, sustainable environmental stewardship and enduring customer satisfaction, in each of the markets they serve

Role Purpose:


Responsible for ensuring that the shift operates with a safety focus culture, that quality targets and the production schedule are met.

Maximize plant efficiency and meet customer requirements, including cycle times, appropriate set-up times, and press operator ratios.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for supervision of all hourly plant employees on night shift, including employee coaching, discipline and assignment of work.
  • Responsible for ensuring all employees receive the necessary training required to effectively perform their duties.
  • Responsible for decisionmaking and problemsolving on mechanical, or other technical issues during night shift.
  • Participate in production troubleshooting with lead hands and technicians, ensure cycle times are met; responsible for decision making and problem solving on any technical or scheduling issues and coordinating with other shifts to ensure good communication.
  • Responsible to implementing Lean Manufacturing initiatives in the production area.
  • Continuous improvement
  • Scrap reduction
  • Variation reduction
  • 5Y or similar problem solving process to reccurring production defects to identify and eliminate root causes
  • Promote and lead Kaizen and 5S initiatives.
  • Responsible for ensuring quality standards are met according to the quality management system and TS16949 requirements.
  • Responsible for ensuring a safe work environment for all employees, including providing instruction on safe operations, necessary personal protective equipment and good housekeeping.
  • Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of all production paperwork.
  • Responsible for overseeing any stock movements and shipping duties to maintain accurate inventory levels.
  • All other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • Supervisory experience in automotive manufacturing is critical to be successful in this role.
  • Proven experience in the creation of and maintaining a safety focused workplace.
  • Knowledge of EPP foam processing or injection moulding processing (using Kurtz or Teubert equipment) preferred
  • Welldeveloped interpersonal skills with the ability to coach and train employees to excel.
  • Understanding of customer requirements and quality systems within the automotive and packaging marketplace.
  • Good understanding of collective labour agreements. Supervisory experience in a unionized plant is preferred.
  • Welldeveloped computer skills with the ability to use the computer system as an effective tool for tracking orders and maintaining accurate inventory and production records with Excel.
  • Excellent organizational and verbal skills and above average written communication skills.
  • Excellent technical skills and the ability to troubleshoot the prefoaming, setup, cycling and shapemoulding processes.
  • Desire to work in a fastpaced manufacturing environment

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