1stShift Production Supervisor

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Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implements and enforces safety and good housekeeping standards by utilizing 1+5s principles.

• Leads and supports the company’s Quality Management System

• Maintains First5 boards and conducts First5 meetings

• Trains, develops and evaluates employees

• Directs and coordinates the activities of employees engaged in production

• Maintains operating expenses by reducing labor and improving production yields

• Reads and analyzes charts, work orders, production schedules and other reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production

• Maintains and approves employee time records

• Coordinates operations and activities within or between departments / cells

• Plans and establishes work schedules, assignments and production sequences to meet production goals

• Inspects materials, products and production equipment to detect defects or malfunctions

• Resolves employee problems and complaints

• Meets deadlines

• Directs and supports continuous improvement through the use of lean and 6 sigma methodologies

Education, Experience and Skills:

Minimum of an Associate Degree or equivalent experience 

Minimum of 3 years as a manufacturing production supervisor preferably in a lean manufacturing environment

Proficiency with Microsoft Office

Customer focused

Ability to work effectively in a cross functional team environment

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.