Production Supervisor

LOCATION

Riverside / Missouri (US-MO), United States |

BRAND:

New York Air Brake |

REQUISITION ID

11441 |

JOB GRADE

14 |

ON-SITE/REMOTE

On-site Since 1890, New York Air Brake has been an innovative leader in the heavy-haul railroad industry. As a member company of Knorr-Bremse -the world's leading manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles--New York Air Brake is recognized worldwide as a Center of Competence for heavy-haul freight railroad control systems. From multiple locations, we serve customers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico—reaching clear across the globe to South America, Africa, the Middle East, China, and Australia. Our talented, diverse, and dedicated teams develop innovative solutions to the challenges facing our customers. Join us in our next steps.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary Oversee and manages all day-to-day production operations in the assigned production area. Contributes to production planning processes. Allocates personnel resources, proposes procedures, improvements, and implements technical infrastructure. Ensures adherence to established quality guidelines and production safety requirements. Determines manufacturing priorities based on established weekly production schedules. Make daily assignments, directs all related personnel actions. Advises staff, executes performance measurements, interprets specifications and makes judgements about the acceptability of production that is in process. Leads all Production Operators in production area assigned. This is a working supervisory role. Essential Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Provide planning to ensure production schedules are met. Lead the training and qualification process of all direct reports. Facilitate Team meetings to communicate departmental KPI measurements. Lead and solicit continuous improvement ideas from team members. Conduct departmental audits (safety, 5S) Ensure employees are following established procedures and standard work processes. Address employee performance issues in a timely manner. Manage time and attendance system for direct reports. Must be able to comply with quality, product safety, and HSE rules and regulations. Be energy conscious, if applicable. Conduct incident investigations. Must understand and adhere to all relevant statutory or regulatory compliance obligations. Must understand, support and adhere to the Integrated Management System policies, procedures and instructions. Must understand and support relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), as defined in the goal tree. Skills and Competencies Technical Capacity Knowledge/understanding of products and services. Computer literacy - Windows (Outlook, Excel, Word etc), SAP Working knowledge of lean principles. Exhibits excellent leadership skills Basic knowledge of quantitative methods/statistical procedures and graphic skills. Communication Proficiency Organization Skills Time Management Supervisory Responsibility This position supervises