Machining Supervisor/Inspector - 3rd shift

About the position

The Will-Burt Company is seeking a Supervisor for the 3rd Shift in the Machining department. This role involves directing and coordinating the activities of the 3rd shift Machining personnel, ensuring high-quality production, and maintaining safety and efficiency in operations. The supervisor will be responsible for employee supervision, interpreting company policies, evaluating job orders, and conferring with production personnel to resolve issues affecting production schedules. The position requires monitoring labor variances, maintaining production records, and ensuring that all employees are adequately trained to perform their work safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Directs and coordinates activities of 3rd shift Machining personnel.
• Checks 1st pc & spot checks in process work to ensure high quality product.
• Ensures that work is performed safely, efficiently, and effectively according to the daily dispatch list for each work center.
• Employee supervision and control (coaching and training).
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Evaluates written data such as job orders, products specifications, and operations sheets.
• Confers with production personnel to resolve problems affecting production schedules.
• Issues written and verbal instructions.
• Assigns duties and examines work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Monitors and corrects labor variances.
• Studies dispatch lists and coordinates hourly requirements for completion of job assignments.
• Interprets specifications, blueprints, and job orders to workers and assigns duties.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performances, and quality of product.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of department, or work crew.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Initiates or suggests plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Maintains time and production records and maintains indirect labor within budgets.
• Responsible for the quality of department processes.
• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments / shifts.
• Reports machine and equipment malfunctions to maintenance personnel.
• Ensures that all employees are adequately trained to perform assigned work in a safe, efficient, high quality manner.
• Works with individual employees to help them become more efficient and productive.
• Relentlessly investigates all rejections to implement corrective actions at the root cause level.
• Enforces company policies and procedures, including but not limited to: start time, breaks, quit time, smoking policy, safety and security practices and policies, company's ISO-9001 rated quality system, accurate and efficient timekeeping.
• Ensures that production schedules are met.
• Hire, transfer or otherwise disposition employees to ensure capacity is balanced with customer demand and load.
• Alerts human resources as soon as possible regarding personnel needs - hiring, transfers, etc.
• Ensures appropriate level of cross-training to be ready to support varying demands and schedules.
• Schedules overtime as necessary to expend capacity to meet demand; maintains control to ensure that no employee works excessive overtime unless pre-approved by the director of operations.
• Develops and/or evaluates appropriate operating and financial metrics and measurements to understand the department's current performance and implements appropriate actions and programs/processes to drive improvements.
• Ensures that equipment, tooling, carts, and other assets in the department are well-maintained and appropriately set up to promote efficient manufacturing and flow.
• Performs inspection checks (both 1st pc & in process) using established processes and procedures.
• Investigates non-conforming product issues to determine root cause and follows established procedures for disposition.
• Works closely with the Quality group in measuring and testing product.

Requirements

• 3-5 years Machining and Quality experience.
• CNC programming experience would be a plus.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and column.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Knowledge of the company's manufacturing software, ERP and planning systems, along with functional knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.

Nice-to-haves

• Training and expertise in the area supervised (e.g., machining, sheet metal, etc.)

Benefits

• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Medical
• Dental
• 401K
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Profit Sharing Plan
• Company Paid Life and Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness Program with onsite company nurse
• Protective Eyewear and Footwear Reimbursement