- Aid supervisors in managing staff and resources, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity goals and expectations are met or exceeded.
- Assist supervisors in developing and maintaining the production schedule and coordinating the necessary resources to meet or exceed customer expectations in cooperation with customers, sales, and other departments as appropriate.
- Assist supervisors in coordinating with other supervisors/shifts to ensure that customer orders are completed on time and that any issues are communicated and addressed from shift to shift.
- Assist supervisors in maintaining inventory control, performing production entries, and managing production planning (including investigating and adjusting negative on-hand, transactions, work order management, and other issues as appropriate), along with associated reporting requirements.
- Review, verify, and enter daily production data, including labor entries, materials issued, scrap, and/or other data as needed.
- Perform inventory cycle counts and make corrections/reconciliations as needed.
- Aid supervisors in developing, maintaining, and issuing work orders, machine schedules, department schedules, and daily job assignments for staff.
- Perform time studies to verify machine rates, evaluate production rates for hourly employees, and address any issues in cooperation with supervisors.
- Identify and support staffing and training needs for each division in cooperation with supervisors, human resources, and the plant manager.
- Assist supervisors in mentoring staff, providing guidance and feedback where appropriate.
- Communicate employee performance to supervisors.
- Ensure housekeeping is maintained in all areas and address any deficiencies.
- Administer company rules, policies, procedures, and performance expectations.
- Identify and support opportunities for improvement in cooperation with the supervisor to drive operational efficiencies and effectiveness, eliminate waste, reduce cost, improve customer satisfaction, and/or improve employee satisfaction.
- Attend production/operations meetings, address action items from those meetings, and manage the shift and division in the supervisor's absence, with the assistance of the plant manager as needed.
- Other Miscellaneous duties as assigned.
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