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Supervisor – Production
| Company | Nordson |
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| Location | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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| Salary | $79200 – $99300 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- A four-year degree with a minimum of 5 years of supervisor experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experienced in Lean manufacturing by using strong influence capability and ability to divert decision making.
- Must possess leadership traits: good communicator, respectful across organization, collaborative overcome emotional response, be approachable, and team player.
- Familiar with production work orders or schedules to meet customer delivery, daily Build Plan, and Quarterly Revenue.
- Experienced in ERP system (QAD). Proficient in Microsoft Office.
Responsibilities
- Maintains a safe and controlled manufacturing environment by educating and directing production team members on the use of all control points, tools, and resources, maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Supervise day-to-day operations of assigned work cells or workgroup to ensure the daily Build Plan is met.
- Ability to lead, manage, and hold production team members accountable for production processes such as material Work in Process (WIP), cycle count, Work Orders, material flow, Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA), and training.
- Plans, develops and implements new methods and procedures designed to improve operations. Minimize operating costs and effect greater utilization of labor and materials.
- Set production cell priorities by understanding business product flow from materials, build, test, packaging, and ship. This includes shifting resource to meet customer deliveries.
- Interfaces with entire organization to ensure customer deadlines are met. This position will work closely with the Master Scheduler, Buyers, Customer Service, and Engineering department.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks, process failures, production procedures, staffing issues, supply chain part shortage problems, and/or training deficiencies.
- Establish process, protocol and involvement for new product transition for production release.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with optomechanical / electromechanical assembly operations using subassembly and main build assemblies.
- Coach and mentor production team members’ disciplinary but in a professional manner.
- Having a continuous improvement mindset to bring innovative ideas to CyberOptics organization to improve production culture by being a Change Agent.
- Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma Greenbelt certification.
