Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

$78,000 - $95,000/Yr

Sekisui Chemical - Renton, WA

Full-time

Renton, WA

Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing

About the position

As a Production Supervisor, you will oversee and coordinate activities of production workers by performing various duties involving inspection, process, and resource management.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and lead production team members in their daily activities, including assignment of duties, training, coaching, counseling, and presenting disciplinary actions as necessary.
• Coordinate and communicate production activities with external customers and internal departments including logistics, engineering, and production management (to include management on other shifts).
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and safety guidelines to workers.
• Promote flow and pull of products and information to internal and ultimately external customers.
• Lead regular communications with team pertaining to company and department performance, with the goals of improvement and reducing waste and non-value-added activity.
• Investigate problems and issues on the production floor, recommend and implement solutions; including 5S tools to reduce variation in the work environment. Develop and utilize visual aids to communicate process and procedures identified to address issues.
• Partner with quality and engineering teams to identify issues and develop and implement process and procedures to prevent recurrence.
• Daily scheduling and organization of work departments, including ownership of time and production records.
• Lead Kaizen activity throughout the department.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to lead, coach and motivate employees to promote continuous improvement efforts resulting in improved safety, on-time delivery, quality, and reduced waste.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse workforce.
• Communicate in a clear, approachable, professional, and pro-active manner; providing strong leadership and management to assigned team.
• Capacity to effectively prioritize tasks and responsibilities to meet deadlines, perform effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced problem-solving skills to interpret and identify solutions with available information and resources.
• Ability to understand, interpret and communicate instructions in varied formats including written, oral, diagram or schedules.
• Intermediate computer skills to monitor and report KPIs, conduct labor tracking, and time card auditing and correction.

Benefits

• Medical (free employee-only coverage and low-cost options available)
• Dental, Vision, Prescription
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Sponsored 401k with Employer Match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts
• 8 Paid Holidays plus closed (with pay) for a week during the winter break!
• 15 days per year accrued Vacation/Sick time. Accrued time is available to use immediately!