Shift Supervisor

The Shift Supervisor role requires both technical and people leadership. The person filling this role will accept the personal responsibility to uphold the plant's effort to create and maintain an environment that trains, encourages and demands that each employee becomes increasingly involved in our pursuit of TPM Excellence (Safety, Quality, and Productivity).

The person in this role assumes the responsibility to ensure their staff is properly trained to perform their primary functions autonomously and creates and maintains a sustainable plan to cross train for maximum flexibility of their shift compliment.

Aligns with the Roofing business goals.

• Develops and achieves personal objectives that stretch self and align to the Department, Plant, Division and Company goals
• Success will be measured by the Shift Supervisor's ability to coordinate with peer group to collectively achieve operational excellence in safety, quality, cost control, inclusion, engagement, inter-department cohesion and compliance
• Assists in developing their employee's understanding of the equipment, process, and the effects of their actions up and downstream to their area. Ensures a macro and micro level understanding of the plant processes and the inter-relation to the individual work area
• Is a positive change agent encouraging and closely involved in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) efforts to ensure shift culture mirrors initiatives
• Ensures Operator training materials are current through routine audit and management of change process input to Training and Development (T&D) Pillar Leader when changes occur in process settings, equipment, etc.
• Performs job tasks to reduce environmental impact and adheres to the environmental regulations and recycling procedures for waste disposal.

Accountable for employee safety.

• Participates and leads the team in TPM via safety, quality, autonomous maintenance, and housekeeping programs as established within the plant; including but not limited to Focused Improvement Events, Safety Committee, etc.
• Models the appropriate safe work practices and prioritizes safety above all other metrics
• Holds others accountable for working safely and engaging actively in safety initiatives to maintain a zero- incident culture
• Provides appropriate resources to ensure a fully engaged and incident-free operation

• Ensures the plant is always in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identifies hazards, including housekeeping issues, resolves and sustains the plan in an ongoing fashion
• Ensures the safe manufacture of a quality product in accordance with schedule requirements.

Demonstrate the commitment to build an exceptional workplace environment; fostering open communication, employee engagement, and inclusion.

• Fully support all TPM areas and initiatives and strive to understands TPM pillars and goals
• Understands the foundations of Operational Excellence (Daily Management & Engaged Organization) and strives to continuously improve leadership
• Actively manages the continued training, development and growth of all personnel
• Ensures timekeeping systems are managed for payroll accuracy; manages overtime per goals
• Encourages a culture of data driven decision making
• Sets clear expectations of performance and establishes, communicates and regularly reviews commitments to make certain milestones are achieved as planned
• Audits daily to ensure data accuracy of all inputs (e.g. check sheets, layered process audits, computer inputs, etc.)
• Professional and motivating communication skills to recognize and bring out the best in each employee
• Develops and coaches all members of shift to work efficiently as a team and individually
• When operating on an off shift, represents the entire management team

• Understands the needs of the customer and takes action to address those needs
• Ensures standard operating procedures and processes are in place
• Performs other related duties consistent with the nature of this position, as directed by the Operations Leader.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Experience directly leading people in an industrial manufacturing or maintenance operations environment is strongly preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Must know the requirements and tasks of all jobs on the respective required production area.
• Must know problem solving and troubleshooting techniques to identify areas of opportunity on production line.
• Able to think under pressure, make quick decisions and act as a decision maker.
• Demonstrates flexibility to changing priorities as business needs dictate.
• Must participate in People Leadership Fundamentals Course
• Ability to reduce waste through continuous improvement of existing processes
• Mechanical aptitude highly preferable
• Must possess strong communication and organizational skills
• Must have strong internal and external customer service skills
• Must have strong attention to detail
• Must train and coach others
• Must have strong process acumen
• Must maintain schedule flexibility to ensure smooth production
• Must operate necessary software to successfully perform job responsibilities
• Must be able to think and work under pressure and analyze information to identify solutions
• Must have and execute with sense of urgency.