Manufacturing Supervisor

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

**Job Description**:
Our Company is built on employee mutual commitment and respect, enthusiasm and progress. Teledyne DALSA is a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc., a U.S. publicly listed enterprise, and specializes in the manufacture, design, research and development of high performance machine vision components, software and cameras. Teledyne DALSA's products are used worldwide in machine vision, document scanning, image capture, surveillance, process monitoring, manufacturing inspection, medical imaging, and multimedia. As part of our continuing growth in this high technology market, Teledyne DALSA is recruiting for a Manufacturing Supervisor in Waterloo

**Responsibilities**:
- Responsible for the direct supervision and management of staff.- Ensure that OHSA is followed and that employees are trained based on both the Act and DALSA H&S policies to ensure due diligence is met.- Responding to and addressing health and safety concerns of employees and finding ways to resolve those concerns.- Completing physical inspection of the department in order to identify and resolve any workplace hazards.- Ensuring that schedules are met.- Identification, planning and provision of comprehensive training for the associates to ensure an effective level of cross-training, and hence providing a flexible work-force.- Providing monthly reports of metrics that indicate the performance levels of the group.- Collecting, maintaining and providing access to data in a manner that supports product design, manufacturing process and customer support continuous improvement efforts.- Participating in lean Kaizens and ensuring lean practices/procedures are implemented and adhered to.- Providing support for all employees in the group.- Ability to motivate others to complete expected workload with high level of quality.- Consistent policy clarification and enforcement.- Ability to recognize performance issues or accomplishments and provide timely feedback.- Establishing trust and credibility with your team.- Participating in performance management/monitoring. This includes but is not limited to GOP preparation and mid and final year reviews.- Recruiting new associates as required ensuring that adequate training occurs to allow them to deliver quality products and fit into assigned teams.- Defining, managing and monitoring processes and procedures in keeping with the requirements of internal customers and management.- Defining, maintaining and monitoring inventory levels in supermarkets.- Participating in process reviews outside of manufacturing such as product obsolescence to ensure continuity of support commitments.- Participating in budget setting and manages against approved budgets.- Establishing daily metrics and drive internal improvement from the data collected. Escalating issues that are external to manufacturing cells. Very fast reaction required to deviations.- Effectively delegate workload needs as they arise.

**Requirements**:
- Graduate Electronic Engineering Technologist/Technician or Operational management program- Four plus years experience in related role, with experience in a supervisory position- Experience in an electronic manufacturing environment.- Proven leadership qualities- Appreciation of problem solving approaches- Proficiency in Windows based office tools - Excel, Word and Database.- Working knowledge of BaaN and Aurum.- Product documentation structure knowledge- Excellent oral and written communication skills- Superior interpersonal and customer service skills

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.