Assistant Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift
Alene Candles, United States
Job Description
Alene Candles LLC amp; Midwest is a private label, contract manufacturer that produces high-quality candles for some of the world’s most recognized retail, boutique, and cosmetic brands. With our headquarters in New Hampshire and locations in Ohio and New York, we’ve been in business for over 25 years. We are passionate about making the best products in the world, making safety our number one priority, and being an insanely great place to work.
We are seeking an Assistant Production Supervisor on 2nd shift to support our offsite manufacturing operations at our new Amherst, NH facility. This role will be responsible for shrink and 370 wrap manufacturing. You must have hands-on experience in Manufacturing Operations and excellent people skills combined with solid technical knowledge. You will assist the Manufacturing Supervisor in the development and management of multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while managing permanent and temporary employees in the pack out zones. This will include but not limited to staffing, training, achieving efficiency standards, ensuring a quality product is produced, and achieving scheduled completion dates. Your focus should be on safety, quality, productivity, cost reduction, continuous improvement and 5S. You will need first-hand experience with modern manufacturing methodology including Lean Manufacturing and will be responsible for 5S and continuous improvement activities on their respective lines and will provide support for department and site 5S and continuous improvement efforts.
Job Responsibilities:
- Follows and complies with all safety rules and regulations. Maintains individual work area/equipment in a neat, orderly manner. Detects and reports improper operations, faulty equipment/ tooling, defective materials and unusual conditions to material lead or supervisor. Ensures a safe work environment by communicating safety requirements, auditing, tracking, and providing feedback and corrective actions to employees and management. Participate in safety meetings/evaluations.
- Conduct daily attendance in person and within ShopVue and report inaccuracies to Manufacturing Supervisor.
- Supervises teams of employees in a process environment in the manufacturing of shrink and 370 wrap products.
- Will be expected to be a team member of the supervisory and management staff; chairing meetings, offering opinions, supporting initiatives and treating co-workers with respect.
- Will establish and/or participate in the creation of schedules and insure timely completion of commitments. Will be responsible for early detection of barriers to achieving schedule and providing work arounds and solutions. Will establish priorities; monitor progress; revise production schedules; resolve problems and report results on shift production.
- Work with engineering to establish efficiency standards and measures performance to targets, tracks, reports, conducts root cause analysis, and corrective actions to maintain and improve efficiencies. Will be challenged with improving efficiencies of line production.
- Will organize and conduct skills assessments and coordinate training to promote learning and address gaps in capabilities. Cross training will be a key component.
- Will be accountable for the accurate accounting of materials while in the care of manufacturing and the timely return of those materials to stores if not consumed in the packing process.
- Will collect data, craft metrics, monitor trends and report to management on the health and well-being of manufacturing.
- Will work with the leads to ensure smooth start-ups and shutdowns.
- Will be responsible for conducting carry over meetings between shifts to ensure critical and pertinent information is passed between shifts.
- Will be responsible to communicate equipment issues to maintenance and monitor timely completions of repairs and improvements.
- Maintains product quality. Work to identify defects and provide root cause and corrective actions as required.
- Responsible for inventory control within ERP systems; issuing and un-issuing of material, scrap verification, and creating Return to Stock labels.
- Creates and revises systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms of control, and personnel requirements. Goal is to streamline and sustain change.
- Responsible for evaluation and updating of shop order closure and shop order reports.
- Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the use of 5S. Conducts 5S audits and communicates issues and corrective actions to teams. Will be the 5S champion in manufacturing. Expectations are to constantly be observing and promote changes and improvements and sustain 5S.
- Consults with the Manufacturing Supervisor and Manufacturing Mana