Production Supervisor - Luvata Appleton, LLC
Appleton, WI 54911
About the Job
Company Overview
Luvata Appleton LLC is a Wisconsin based company with three locations in the Fox River Valley. We manufacture products for the copper alloy wire industry and have many customers including ones in the battery, ammunition, solar panel, and electronic markets, among others. As a company, Luvata Appleton is committed to providing a sustainable world through material innovation with the use of our distinctive technologies since our first manufacturing mill was built in 1964. We pride ourselves with providing our customers with unique and high-quality products, through the collaboration of all our employees.
We promote a family-like culture and encourage two-way communication along with interdepartmental collaboration to help our company adapt and grow in a fast-paced market. In addition, we invest in our employees as we do our customers, providing a challenging and rewarding environment where you can grow both personally and professionally. We are looking for people that are self-starters, and people that like making a difference in an organization through change and innovation.
Position Overview
The Supervisor is responsible for directing the workforce by supervisoring employees to execute production processes that provide an on-time and quality product in a safe manner to our customers. This position is located at our Appleton, WI manufacturing facility and is required to work rotating shifts Monday-Friday with every 4th weekend on-call requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise and coordinate manufacturing production. Maintain product quality, economical manufacturing costs and production schedules consistent with company manufacturing objectives and goals.
- Organize and assign work, instructing, guiding, and assisting employees in the attainment of production, quality, and safety standards.
- Set shop floor expectations in the areas of safety/hygiene, on-time delivery, quality, productivity, and information accuracy and flow.
- Serve as an advocate for shop floor employees and ensure effective shop floor communication.
- Assist in diagnosing production equipment malfunctions, expediting and coordinating repairs to reduce production downtime, soliciting assistance when required. Assist operators in troubleshooting production equipment problems and solving production difficulties.
- Schedule and train the workforce in accordance with skill requirements and work levels and production schedules.
- Maintain compliance with work rules, offering encouragement and issuing violation warnings and disciplinary actions, as required.
- Administer the labor agreement in a fair and consistent manner.
- Ensure the use of safety devices and equipment, supervising plant housekeeping and continually being alert for hazardous conditions and unsafe practices. Complete accident reports and follow-up on accident log entries.
- Focus on improving the development of employees through cross training and the VQR system, enhancing system improvement in the areas of safety, quality, on-time delivery, and cost.
- Attend training classes and/or seminars to improve production and management related skills.
- Provide support for Luvata Appleton initiatives.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management.
- Requires education generally equivalent to a high school diploma. It is desirable for the employee to obtain additional training related to supervisory duties.
- Requires 3 to 5 years of related experience in production operations.
- Ability to operate a variety of office equipment. Ability to operate a variety of hand tools including a wire cutter.
- Requires good communication skills to coordinate production operations and communicate company objectives and operation procedures to employees.
- The employee is required to wear safety glasses and metatarsally guarded steel-toed shoes while working in production areas.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the major functions of the position described and is not intended to be a detailed description of all the work that may be required.