Production Supervisor - Days (Small & Midsize Poles)

Valmont Industries, Inc. • Brenham, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor is a first-line Supervisor with discipline and drive as essential behavioral traits. A driven individual that will be responsible for safety of all employees being supervised, demonstrates attributes that support first time product quality, exercises sound financial decision making / cost control methods, processing manufacturing steel poles and following planned schedule. This position supervises hourly production employees and interacts with admin as needed. This is an on-site professional exemption salaried position.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years relevant experience or Associate’s degree with 7+ years relevant experience or 9+ years of relevant experience
• Five (5) years of experience in manufacturing or logistics/distribution environment
• A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to support divisional business objectives
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Recognize and solve practical problems and/or issues
• Communicate and interact with coworkers in a positive manner
• Effectively interpret and present information both one-on-one and in front of an audience
• Can accurately calculate figures such as pay changes for employees, proportions and percentages, and product dimensions
• Work in a high volume, fast paced environment

Nice To Haves

• Three years of experience in a supervisory position
• Previous supervisory experience in a manufacturing and/or fabrication environment
• Practical hands-on experience in Lean Manufacturing
• Must be a person of passion and integrity who has the drive to excel and deliver exceptional results

Responsibilities

• Conducting effective every day “stand up-start up meetings”.
• Start-up meetings are to be utilized to identify if all employees are “fit for duty” that day.
• Conduct stretch and flex exercises as part of warming up for the work but also use it to identify if employees demonstrate motion concerns.
• Enforcing work hardening policy (Any new hires - direct hire or temps should be only scheduled for 40 hours / week for first 30 days without exceptions.
• Lead the investigation and demonstrate effective containment actions are in place for all employees to return to their work centers safely.
• Present root cause findings as well as countermeasures (short term as well as long term) to all employees as well as management.
• Ensuring that any equipment issues are immediately reported.
• Own the root cause analysis of ANY rejected pole.
• Perform time sensitive fact finding to make sure repeat rejects (because of same issue) do not occur.
• Partner with Quality Supervisor in making sure the correct solution is in place and in case of performance issue from their employees, it is documented with HR.
• Daily task assignments.
• Supervisor is expected to have employee work assignments planed in advance.
• Planning daily schedule and report any schedule concerns.
• Monitor employee’s performance to ensure all safety policies and procedures are followed and adhered
• Implement and assign work schedules to maximize the utilization of manpower, machines, and equipment
• Define expected production standards, and monitor performance standards of direct reports
• Observe personnel to ensure the proper operation of assigned work and equipment
• Ensure inspection checks and quality assurance occurs to produce high quality products
• Promote a continuous productivity improvement climate that encourages suggestions for operational improvement
• Administer and support company policies and procedures in a fair and consistent manner
• Train new employees about divisional and organizational activities and safety policies and procedures
• Prepares daily time sheets for hourly employees, production summaries, overtime and downtime reports

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)
• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
• Work Life Support
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level