Production Supervisor

Hoover Treated Wood Products - Oxford, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Oxford, PA

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Production Supervisor is responsible for overseeing plant production and material movements while ensuring safety compliance and efficient use of resources. This role involves managing production personnel, meeting production goals, and addressing any quality issues that arise. The supervisor will also conduct performance reviews, manage attendance, and assist in hiring and training new employees.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all environmental and safety procedures are followed and report all unsafe or non-compliant activities.
• Ensure production goals are met, including downtime, productivity, and lead time.
• Lead and develop employees under their supervision.
• Conduct performance reviews for hourly team members as required.
• Manage team member attendance and schedules to ensure full production.
• Recognize and quickly correct any quality issues.
• Monitor and enforce company policies, goals, objectives, and procedures.
• Coordinate the movement of products through all warehouse locations.
• Address all worker problems, complaints, or grievances and elevate as required.
• Assist in hiring and terminating production personnel.
• Demonstrate equipment operations and work safety procedures to new employees, and/or assign experienced employees to train new workers.
• Maintain yard layout and general housekeeping.
• Assist with measures to motivate employees and improve production methods, equipment, performance, product quality, and efficiency.
• Assist as needed for all physical inventory counts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED) required.
• Minimum of one year of Supervisory experience required.
• Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
• Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve problems.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others.
• Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.
• Ability to demonstrate behaviors conforming to Hoover's set of values and accepted standards.
• Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.
• Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively supervise others.
• Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one's ability.
• Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
• Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one's conduct and actions.

Nice-to-haves

• Comfortable working within Google Drive programs, Windows based programs, using a word processor, and email.