We are Techmer PM the worlds foremost materials design firm creating custom polymers that make up essential products. Through our longstanding partnerships with processors original equipment manufacturers and product designers weve worked for decades to tackle manufacturing and business challenges through sustainable futureminded solutions.
We are currently seeking a Production Supervisor for our Dalton Georgia facility. This position will be on 2nd shift which is 7:00PM7:30AM Monday through Thursday. Pay rate is $60000$78000 per year.
Benefits include:
- Eligible for medical benefits on your first day!
- High deductible health plan offering that includes up to $1000 towards your Health Savings Account (HSA) per year.
- Free Teledoc membership included when you enroll in medical benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program which includes 5 free counseling sessions per year and access to free legal guidance
- 401(k) with 6 company match. You are 100 vested from Day 1 of contribution
- Free investment consultative services for your 401(k) plan.
- Company paid disability and life insurance
- 10 vacation days per year (prorated your first year)
- 10 companypaid holidays
- 2 weeks of parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement with up to a $20000 lifetime maximum
- Annual salary reviews and bonus opportunities
- Hourly employees are paid weekly; salary employees are paid semimonthly
The Production Supervisor is responsible for safe and efficient operations during the assigned shift. This person is responsible for supervising employees and ensuring they fulfill the mission and goals of Techmer PM.
Safety Management
- Complies with and enforces all company safety procedures and administers disciplinary actions when required.
- Provides safety training and orientation to new employees
- Identifies and cultivates opportunities to improve working area conditions and works with maintenance and engineering on the implementation of new ideas.
- Reports investigates and documents all safetyrelated incidents and leads the team in the investigation of root causes and development of corrective actions.
- Ensures the team completes all safety and process training timely.
Planning and Scheduling
- Utilizes all resources to complete customer orders on time driving on time deliveries (OTD) to 95
- Coordinates with scheduling and optimizes manpower efficiency through color sequencing changeover (C/O) reduction time and operators compliance to manufacturing procedures.
- Coordinates with scheduling and maintenance to have corrective and preventive maintenance done on all the equipment on time.
- Continuous Improvement
- Drives implements and sustains 6S across the manufacturing area.
- Audits the production staff to ensure the process is within engineering parameters and works with the team to update SOPs when needed.
- Actively engaged in working with staff leads and process engineering to troubleshoot any nonconformance or quality issues by utilizing Lean and 6 Sigma tools to develop root cause and corrective actions
- Participates in Kaizen events to optimize processes reduce and eliminate nonconformance and rework and reduce manufacturing costs.
- Ensures production is always in compliance with ISO 9001 procedures and participates in audits as needed.
- Utilizes crosstraining and other methods to continually develop team skill sets in batching and extruding processes.
- Makes sure ERP transactions are errorfree and on time
- Works with Manufacturing Manager to achieve annual manufacturing metrics.
- Performs quarterly employee reviews to grade and develop workforce
- Administers the Absentee Control Program for staff
- Administers disciplinary actions when an employee violates any safety or processrelated procedure
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 23 years of prior manufacturing supervisory experience
- Experience in using and following a Quality Management System in Manufacturing (QMS)
- Computer literate in MS Office and Microsoft D365 ERP system.
- Experience in applying Lean Manufacturing and 6 Sigma tools to resolve processing problems and optimize efficiencies.
- Expertise in deployment and driving of manufacturing metrics (KPI)
- Experience in compounding of polymers or related field
- High degree of organizational skills to effectively handle all assigned responsibilities.
- Team builder
- Experience in implementing Good Manufacturing Practices across the production area
- Bilingual in Spanish (preferred) with excellent written and spoken communication skills
Salary range: $60000$78000
Required Experience:
Manager