Production Supervisor

Position: Production Supervisor -Lay-Up Department

Summary - Provide working supervision of CHI's manufacturing operations as directed by the Operations Manager. Ensure that safety, product quality; personnel performance, operating parameters, and equipment maintenance meet established department goals and standards. Coordinate resources and manpower to maximize productivity and priorities and objectives. Issue work assignments to Lead Operators as appropriate.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take a proactive role in providing a safe working environment. Conduct all operations in a clean and safe environment. Schedule appropriate cleaning to maintain high level of safety and quality culture.
• Maintain high ethical standards and integrity. Communicate and conduct oneself in a professional manner, which is conducive to a healthy and productive business environment.
• Lead, train, supervise, evaluate, and coach assigned production personnel. Assist Lead Operators with planning work and use of resources (people, tools, equipment, etc.) to maximize efficiency and throughput while meeting our quality requirements.
• Effectively communicate company and department goals, achievements, problems, solutions, practices, changes, and policies. Encourage positive communication. Enforce all company policies, rules, and regulations.
• Review production schedules, standard manufacturing procedures, quality control requirements, check lists, set-up information, previous results, and other data necessary to accurately communicate requirements and answer questions.
• Review equipment operations to ensure reliability. Take corrective actions to be sure equipment is operating properly, maintained, and that personnel are correctly operating the equipment.
• Responsible for achieving daily Flex Earned Standard Hours and throughput goals. Execute recovery plans to achieve goals.
• Achieve productivity and efficiency targets. Monitor and manage department expenses including, overtime spending, consumable materials, and small tools.
• On time delivery performance. Use Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) approach to improve or recover to a late schedule.
• Review and approve all production employee weekly e-time data, vacation, sick and holiday schedules to ensure all manufacturing requirements are met.
• Lead or actively participate projects related to cost reductions, safety, productivity improvements, and quality improvements.
• Work closely with Operations Manager, other Supervisors, Engineers, Safety, Logistics and Quality to ensure all goals are met.
• Lead & participate in continuous improvement projects and teams.

Overseeing leads and team members performing the below task

• Assigns tasks, trains new employees and works with department management to ensure schedule and quality initiatives are met. Ability to work multiple programs.
• Passionately works in a safe manner by following all safety rules, and providing recommendations to help make PCC a safe work environment.
• Achieves team production goals by working to meet all operational and quality standards to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Fabricates, assembles, reworks, and repairs products per the Master Work Instructions (MWI), by utilizing precision instruments, hand tools, power tools, machines, and equipment as instructed.
• Reads work orders and related documentation to determine methods and sequence of operations and dimensional and finish specifications.
• Lays out cutting lines on plastic materials, such as sheet stock and fiberglass or graphite cloth, following template pattern, blueprints, sketches, or sample part, using measuring and marking instruments.
• Cuts material to size, using shears, knives, cutters, scissors, router, or saw.
• Mixes ingredients, such as resins, catalysts, fillers, accelerators, and colors, according to formulas, manually or using mixer.
• Sets up and operates forming machines and presses, or laminates plastic cloth plastic cloth and resins or impregnated cloth onto layup mold or bonding fixture, to shape parts.
• Wraps bonding fixture or mold in vacuum bagging materials, attaches fittings to mold or fixture, such as vacuum connections, thermocouples, and probes, and exhausts air from vacuum bag to prepare lamination for curing or bonding.
• Verifies dimensions of parts, using precision instruments, such as dial indicators, micrometers, and calipers.

Experience and Education:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• 3-5 years applicable experience with at least 2 years supervisory experience desired.

Requirements:

• Ability to prioritize workload.
• Strong organizational and communications skills (verbal and written).
• Interface with several organizational levels.
• Strong math skills and a solid understanding of statistical data reporting.
• Working knowledge of personal computers as well as Windows based software desired.
• Proficient in ERP transactions desired
• Ability to read and interpret blueprint drawings.
• Excellent communication skills, including fluency of the English language (written and verbal).
• Must be a US Person

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability - not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.