Production Supervisor

Marmon Industrial Energy and Infrastructure

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

Marmon Industrial Energy & Infrastructure (MIEI) - East Granby is one of six specialty wire, cable, and tubing solution manufacturing companies located throughout North America. We have over 100 years of innovative engineered solutions for critical, industrial, and commercial applications.
We are the experts in our industry!

The Production Supervisor is responsible for employee safety, supervising production/operational department(s) or work centers.  Ensures compliance to daily planning, manufacturing and shipment schedules, while maintaining standards of quality, specifications, costs, productivity and safety.  Provides employee training and maintains compliance with established rules, regulations, practices and contractual provisions.

Shift Details: 3 PM-11 PM

Essential Duties:

Safety:

• Identify unsafe conditions and eliminate safety hazards.
• When an incident occurs, a full understanding of what happened needs to be understood, corrective   action taken and reflected in the incident report.
• Incident reports need to be reviewed by the Director of Operations for comment and corrective action as required.
• Breakdown by department.
• Regularly coach, encourage and monitor employees for compliance with safety rules and practices.

Staffing/Training:

• Staff each workcenter based on workload.  Assign people as required to meet workload.  Make recommendations to Director of Operations.
• Train and cross-train operators as required to perform to the schedule as outlined by Planning.
• Each Supervisor will have responsibility to be a member of various committees in collaboration with  Director of Operations, designed to correct specific problems that have been addressed by the strategic plan, i.e., OSR/scrap reduction, material usage, safety.
• Measure operator efficiency and communicate progress/challenges utilizing coaching and training.  Track attendance and recognize quality performance; coach each employee for success.
• Confer with appropriate Human Resources Representative on matters pertaining to employee/labor relations, benefits, etc.

   Schedule:

• Measure the performance of the achieved schedule vs. the planned schedule by workcenter.
• Coordinate this with the Planning supervisor to assure accurate schedules are available and realistic.

   Scrap:

• Assure that scrap is being reported by workcenter.
• Implement corrective action to reduce scrap by understanding all components that contribute to it.
• Analyze OSR’s by workcenter.  Collaborate with operators to correct problems.  Coordinate with engineers, maintenance personnel to correct equipment, process problems.

Productivity:

• Review the performance of each operator on a regular basis.  Assure that productivity levels are met.
• Utilize coaching, collaboration and training for job development.

Organize work centers/departments:

• Organize each work center to achieve maximum efficiency.  Conduct team meetings to brainstorm solutions to problems.  Provide the required tools and other resources to achieve work center goals.  Maintain good housekeeping disciplines.
• Reduce material handling of materials between departments and within departments.
• Develop methods to increase the efficiency of staging materials to be run at a workcenter - eliminate the time for searching for reels and/or materials.

   Measurement:

• Manning/Labor Performance:
• Achieve 70% minimum earned labor efficiency.
• Reduce indirect labor as a result of improved material handling, less rework and utilization of work flexibility as outlined within the contract.
• Capacity/Load: Assure available capacity meets or exceeds actual capacity by workcenter           
• Schedule: 
• Measurement of late orders - due an operation plus five (5) days.
• On time delivery for Stock and Specials, as outlined by monthly forecast.

Cost Reduction:

• Eliminate downtime through efficient set-ups, material availability, and staging.
• Reduce downtime due to maintenance, i.e., schedule preventive maintenance.

These are the general duties required to fulfill the Production Supervisor job description, not a detailed description of all work required.  New duties and responsibilities may be required to meet the changing demands of the business.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years minimum within a manufacturing environment, in a supervisory capacity.  Direct wire and cable experience preferred.  Strong mechanical and process aptitude and working knowledge of wire/cable machinery.
• 2 - 4 year degree in engineering of manufacturing technology preferred, but will consider equivalent proven work experience.
• Candidate must have strong conceptual and analytical skills, organization and problem solving ability, verbal and written communications skills and excellent interpersonal skills.  Must be a team player and a developer of teamwork within areas supervised.

Marmon Industrial Energy and Infrastructure East Granby is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to, and prohibits discrimination based on, race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [email protected], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.