2nd Shift Production Supervisor - Metal Cards

Overview:

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Responsibilities:

IDEMIA, the global leader in ID & Payment Card manufacturing, located in Exton PA, is looking to add a Production Supervisor to our 2nd shift Metal Card production department. This person will lead a team of ~15 Machine Operators focusing on our Metal Payment Card product line.

Support production employees in continual improvement by acting as a resource in applying and ultimately teaching problem solving skills and meeting facilitation skills by using established management control and production communication tools.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Identifies daily production challenges and find solutions to prevent reoccurrence and meet production schedules
• Serves as a link between associates and management and support associates through changes
• Assists in developing and monitoring standardized work for direct reports Audits or assigns audit duties for key result areas
• Holds daily cell meeting and set expectations for the day
• Monitors production status hourly, remove bottlenecks and take corrective measures to ensure daily goals are met
• Oversees continuous flow and materials delivery systems and work with associates to continuously improve the process
• Reviews production schedules and estimate associate hours to complete a job assignment
• Interprets specifications and job orders for associates and delegate duties
• Recommends measures and changes to improve production, equipment, product quality and working conditions
• Initiates and/or suggests plans to motivate and enforce safety rules
• Design and implement a plan to provide cross-training to production employees that maximize their value to the team.
• Support Lean lines in collaborative, autonomous decision making to facilitate the team’s self-directed improvements.
• Support the daily activities of the production lines according to the team’s production schedule and apply the necessary adjustments when needed according to current issues.
• Supervise production employees according to company policies including attendance, e-time, security, safety, corrective action, performance appraisals, etc.
• Collaborate with production manager on production goal setting.
• Support the production team’s daily activities in accordance to our defined ISO procedures and modify these procedures based on process improvement made by the production teams.

Qualifications:

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a supervisory role managing production processes and hourly employees
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Proven decision-making capability
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to inspire and motivate associates
• Root cause analysis, problem identification, and resolution skills
• Willingness to learn and develop new methods and/or processes
• Ability to distinguish visual defects (created or received into production processes)