A Shift Supervisor (50808)

Responsibilities: Utilize personnel and resources in the best possible way; instruct employees in company procedures/policy and expectations, meet production deadlines, decrease errors, devise and enforce safety procedures and processes.

Job Duties

• Oversee hourly employees.
• Work to resolve conflicts consistently and effectively.
• Follow all guidelines (verbal and/or written) as established by the company.
• Ensure that employees work in a safe manner at all times.
• Accomplish manufacturing goals by communicating job expectation, planning, and monitoring and appraising job results.
• Ensures operation of equipment by reporting need for repairs.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge.
• Gauge parts to verify that they meet specification using calipers, micrometers, and other quality approved gauging devises as required.
• Notify Supervisor immediately of any deviation or change in part specs or changes to safety guarding or other safety issues (slips, falls, guarding or hand tool issues, etc.).
• Listen for any sounds that may indicate a malfunction.
• Document all issues with production in order to communicate effectively with other shifts.
• Plans stock inventory by anticipating needs, placing, and expediting orders for stock and verifying receipt of stock.
• Maintain work area is clean, neat, and in an orderly fashion.

Special Circumstances

• Must be available to work flexible hours and on-call hours as required.
• Must be able to work independently as well as in interact skillfully with customers, employees, upper management, and supplies.

Essential Physical Requirements

• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds consistently and often.
• Requires standing.
• Requires repetitive movement.
• Required to walk; use hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.