Production Supervisor

Shift: Day (Flexible)

Reporting to: Production Manager - Press/Assembly

Goals:
(fundamental objectives for orientation of the employee)

• Ensuring the correct production program within the assigned production area.
• Organizing and optimizing of the workflow within the assigned production area.
• Assurance/optimization of the manufacturing quality within the assigned production area.
• Controlling the repair and maintenance work within the assigned production area.
• Expert and disciplinary leadership of the subordinate employees.
• Adhering to the instructions for safety and environmental protection.

Tasks:

(important primary responsibilities in logical order)

• Implementing the convened production program planning, while taking into account the existing system capacity and personnel capacity within the assigned production area, with respective response to possible interferences.
• Ensuring the organizational work flow within the assigned production area.
• Ensuring and adhering to all valid work instructions within the assigned production area.
• Ensuring the qualitative and quantitative achievement of objectives within the assigned production area.
• Appointing employees in accordance with their qualifications and reviewing their work results.
• Continuous professional further qualification of employees within his own area of responsibility.
• Initiating KVP processes within own area of responsibility and control and implement these as well as executing the success control procedure. - derive standards if applicable.
• Reporting the area-related production results to production management.
• Adhering to current safety regulations, environmental protection regulations and other legal and inter­ company provisions and regulations.
• Analyze defects, rework and waste, as well as work out measures for the preventative quality assurance and implement those in collaboration with the respective special departments.
• Planning and adapting the personnel requirement including the need for temporary employees with production management.
• Selecting new employees in agreement with production management.
• Organizing and improving the use of personnel, machines, materials and operating equipment according to criteria of economical efficiency and scheduling situation.
• Participating in budget planning and investment approaches as well as monitoring and reviewing the cost development within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Participating in the new creation and modification of work systems, production changes and production processes as well as implementation of his own experiences and suggestions for design.
• Initiating and guiding manufacturing meetings with the respective tracking of measures taken.
• Defining and adapting leadership tasks in the framework of objective agreement and tasks at hand. Checking work results and discuss these in employee meetings.
• Ensuring good communication across all interfaces.

Competencies:

(special strengths, decision making powers)

• Access to all relevant IT systems (SAP, Babtec, etc.).
• Controlling and prioritizing tasks in the special departments within the assigned production area.
• Signing authority under the signature scheme of the company.

(Area) of responsibility

(professional responsibilities, responsibilities for personnel)

• Responsible for the continuous fulfillment of the production program within the assigned production area regarding quality, quantity, scheduling and economic efficiency.
• Responsible for the disciplined and professional management of subordinate employees/apprentices including their qualifications.
• Responsible for the achievement of key figures within the assigned production area.
• Obligation to inform production management and GF management regarding all relevant production events.

Environmental conditions of the workplace:

• Combined workplace in production/office/machine, where the safety and environmental regulations of the company are to be observed.

Education requirements:

• Completed vocational education in the technical area.
• Additional further qualification to become a college or university degree.

Professional experience:

• Several years of experience in the technical area and metal forming.
• Knowledge of metrology and reading blue print.
• Experienced in the leadership and development of employees.
• Business management knowledge.
• Good knowledge of MSOffice, SAP, Babtec, etc.

Personal skills:

• Delegation ability - can transfer decisions, tasks and responsibility. Trusts his colleagues’ competence. Gives clear and understandable instructions.
• Leadership skills - is able to challenge, encourage coworkers according to their strengths and weaknesses and to entice them to submit open, honest and constructive feedback; recognizes and uses the potentials of the team members and can express appreciation and recognition. Can lead individuals and groups in a goal-oriented and integrative manner.
• Decisiveness - can make decisions. Independent thoughts and actions.
• Ability to communicate - has the ability to transmit a message with enthusiasm and self-confidence. Can catch reactions and meanings and create a good dialog on their basis. Can adapt to different conversation situations.
• Assertiveness - does not avoid uncomfortable situations. Can create and endure adequate pressure. Can implement viewpoints oriented towards the achievement of objectives, even with resistance, in a socially acceptable manner.