Production Supervisor

Job Description
General Description:
Responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:

To manage the plant production activities; directly supervise the activities of the front line production employees charged with the performance and verification of production activities throughout the plant to ensure manufacturing of products in scheduled quantities, at budgeted cost and acceptable quality; manage, participate & adhere conformance to the company safety & environmental programs; responsible to identify and initiate actions to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformities relating to product or process; oversee the loading of raw materials into the operation as well shipments and distribution of finished goods, materials. This position also backs-up for customer service administration including processing customer orders, providing customer service, troubleshooting customer concerns, interacting with carriers to ensure customer satisfaction, assisting with lime sales coordination as required, manage truck traffic and scale issues; research customer inquiries; reporting and investigating quality non-conformances.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to ensure all company safety rules, and regulations in accordance with the Occupational Health & Safety Act are observed by all employees. This includes providing a safe workplace, planning the necessary resources in manpower and budgeting to accomplish site safety goals.
• Ensures regulatory compliance with environmental regulations for the lime facility.
• Interface with MOL and other governing agencies.
• Follow up investigations working with Safety Committee, and others as needed.
• Monitor safety program and its effectiveness.
• Monitor environmental compliance.
• Monitor the Continuous Improvement Management process including non-conformance resolution. Develop corrective action plans for prevention of future customer complaints.
• Preparation and implementation of training plans to provide employees with the necessary training to perform their job safely and effectively.
• Supervise employee tasks to meet sales, production, training and maintenance requirements.
• Know and follow the collective agreement.
• Assign weekly schedules and employee assignments to meet sales, production, training and maintenance requirements. Ensure quality of product during process.
• Work closely with the Process Engineer and Maintenance Team to maximize kiln efficiency and minimize unscheduled down time.
• Supervise loading of truck shipments.
• Ensure the execution of the daily production plan. Schedule necessary arrangements to keep plant running during breakdowns.
• Generate maintenance request notifications as needed.
• Routinely monitor key performance indicators identifying opportunities for improvement and making appropriate supervisory and management personnel aware of the findings.
• Attend and provide input during the daily continuous improvement meeting.
• Explain significant variances from daily plan and recommend changes that will upgrade the running of the shift.
• Review barriers identified during shift turn over meetings to develop and monitor action plans to overcome the obstacles.
• Participate in the daily morning production meeting to communicate with production and maintenance.
• Monitor workload to evaluate the staffing levels.
• Documentation and maintenance of records.

Needed Knowledge:

• Possesses strong analytical thinking skills to provide a logical, in-depth analysis of a problem or situation.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving and decision making skills.
• Extensive knowledge and background of continuous manufacturing and production processes
• Demonstrated ability to assess organizational and people issues, provide coaching and mentoring, and deliver solutions that improve facility performance;
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, strong organization and prioritization skills;
• Demonstrates the ability to apply appropriate conflict management strategies to ensure conflicts are resolved to the benefit of all parties.
• Establishes and maintains highly productive working relationships across the organization with all groups within the region and the company; demonstrating respect for conflicting points of view, listens to others, and builds strong working relationships.
• Demonstrates excellent technical writing skills for producing SOP, reports, and other appropriate communications.
• Knows appropriate negotiating tactics and is able to negotiate win/win agreements without compromising principles.