Facilities Supervisor

Position Summary:   

The Plant Services Facilities Supervisor will lead the supervision of Plant Services and provide support towards the daily operations of the Facilities and Continuous Improvement Team.  The Supervisor will coordinate with outside contract services as required and manage facility projects.  Additionally, the Facility Supervisor will support the safety programs and ensure all safety related issues are handled promptly. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

Supervision: range of 5 - 10 employees in the Plant Services Department. Will support and direct temporary and summer help personnel.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Supervise the activity within Plant Services to achieve Safety, Quality, and Delivery, Cost, and Productivity objectives on a daily basis.  

• Performance Management: Accomplish objectives by communicating job expectations to employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; Hold direct reports accountable for their performance; coaching, counseling, and performance management of employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures. 

• Manage time cards and points for direct reports in a timely manner. Maintain vacation and overtime calendars and tracking. 

• Work with Union stewards and HR as necessary to ensure communication and employee issues are addressed. 

• Provide daily reporting in a timely manner. 

• Conduct Tier 2 Meetings with employees to review metrics, safety, and provide daily direction. 

• Conduct handoff meetings and provide written notes to supervisors on other shifts to ensure strong communication between shifts. 

• Maintain qualified workforce at the proper level, to meet production schedules.  

• Train employees and maintain training matrix;  lead 30-60-90 day reviews for new employees. 

• Notify IT and management of any IT downtimes in a timely manner. 

• Participate in the development and implementation of cost reduction and productivity improvement initiatives. 

• Facilitate continuous improvement and 5S activities. 

• Prepare reports and be prepared to discuss with management the status of departmental and/ or individual metrics, workload and current projects. 

• Prepare detailed work instructions per ISO standards. 

• Schedule the repair and maintenance of manufacturing equipment as required. 

• Address safety concerns; ensure employees use prescribed safe work methods and utilize proper safety equipment. 

• Interface directly with other departments regarding problems and opportunities, finding methods to enhance quality and timely-efficient production and delivery. 

• Schedule and coordinate contractor work along with unscheduled work. 

• Work closely with the maintenance supervisor and manager to support facilities and other work required of the plant services team. 

• Coordinate Plant Service work and preventative maintenance  (PM)with other operations supervisors and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure timely and adequate work is completed. 

• Generate and distribute facilities and/or other preventative maintenance  to responsible parties. Track preventative maintenance   and workorder data related to the Facilities department. 

• Makes recommendations to management on personnel, equipment, procedures, and methods to improve and meet production goals. 

• Update, maintain assets and preventive Facilities task information in Facilities Systems. 

• Requests and processes parts and service quotations and POs within the Facilities Department. 

• Ability to analyze existing systems and collect data on building operations, equipment, demand load, and usage in an effort to reduce the consumption of electricity, natural gas, water, and other resources in incremental stages. 

• Perform other duties as assigned including but not limited to covering other manufacturing cells as needed. 

Desired Characteristics: 

• Strong history of applying continuous improvement concepts and tools 

• Strong analytical skills  

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.  

• Strong team player, work ethic and commitment to win, self-starter with the ability to problem solve, anticipate, and avoid issues 

• Excellent organizational and time management skills 

• Ability to multi-task and project manage internal teams as well as outside contractors 

Qualifications / Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required 

• 5+ years’ experience supervising employees in a unionized manufacturing environment 

• Excellent Supervisory skills; must be able to plan, organize and schedule work among employees; prepare and evaluate department records and reports; communicate effectively with employees, management staff and all other departments, as necessary. 

• Experienced facilitator and proven track record of Lean/5S implementation. 

• Excellent computer skills, including Excel and PowerPoint.  ERP and / or maintenance software skills preferred. 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

• Proficiency in reading and interpreting documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.   

• Competency using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, communication systems, computer systems, software systems, operating systems, including but not limited to Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Excel and other related programs. 

• Familiarity of working within an ISO regulated requirement.  

• Demonstrated team play, great work ethic, and ability to be flexible with strong capability to work within a collaborative team environment to support production and company needs.  

• Experience with preventative maintenance of machining strongly preferred.