Production Supervisor (Days C Shift- Assembly)

at  Panasonic Energy of North America

Essential Duties:

• Directly supervises employees in the Panasonic production process
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems
• Responsible for achieving and monitoring all Key Performance Indicators (Safety, Financial, Production, Quality, Manpower)
• Creating precise end of shift reports, root cause analysis documents, and headcount reports
• Monitor and ensure all safety guidelines are followed
• Investigate all safety incidents, find root causes, and initiate permanent corrective actions
• Perform 5-WHY, 8-D, fishbone, 4M analysis
• Produce a quality product in the Panasonic production process
• Monitor defect trends and assign corrective actions to the respective support teams
• Monitor material loss trends and assign corrective actions to the respective support teams
• Monitor expense trends and apply strict control over consumables such as supplies and tools
• Real-time monitoring and managing machine downtimes, escalations, and recoveries
• Directs work with other supervisors to coordinate activities in cross functional departments
• Troubleshooting and escalating mechanical failures to appropriate support teams
• Leading Kaizen events to improve machine/production conditions
• Participate and support all Battery Engineering projects
• Participate and support all Production Engineering projects
• Participate and support all Quality Control projects
• Reviews PSI/line performance and schedules daily asset care
• Responsible for revising and/or establishing new work procedures (SOP)
• Manage high volume shipping and receiving areas
• Responsible for managing inventory control of all process materials
• Control consumption utilizing FIFO methodologies
• Manage logistics processes such as shipping and receiving storage
• Understand integrated systems such as (SAP, MES, Oracle)
• Recommends continuous improvement activities to improve quality and reduce cost
• Interprets company policies to workers and ensures that safety and ISM policies are followed
• Consults with Manager and/or Human Resources to resolve employee relations problems for workers he/she supervises
• Provide regular performance feedback for their employees
• Complete semi-annual review

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for achieving and monitoring all Key Performance Indicators (Safety, Financial, Production, Quality, Manpower)
• Creating precise end of shift reports, root cause analysis documents, and headcount reports
• Monitor and ensure all safety guidelines are followed
• Investigate all safety incidents, find root causes, and initiate permanent corrective actions
• Perform 5-WHY, 8-D, fishbone, 4M analysis
• Produce a quality product in the Panasonic production process
• Monitor defect trends and assign corrective actions to the respective support teams
• Monitor material loss trends and assign corrective actions to the respective support teams
• Monitor expense trends and apply strict control over consumables such as supplies and tools
• Real-time monitoring and managing machine downtimes, escalations, and recoveries
• Directs work with other supervisors to coordinate activities in cross functional departments
• Troubleshooting and escalating mechanical failures to appropriate support teams
• Leading Kaizen events to improve machine/production conditions
• Participate and support all Battery Engineering projects
• Participate and support all Production Engineering projects
• Participate and support all Quality Control projects
• Reviews PSI/line performance and schedules daily asset care.
• Responsible for revising and/or establishing new work procedures (SOP)
• Manage high volume shipping and receiving areas
• Responsible for managing inventory control of all process materials
• Control consumption utilizing FIFO methodologies
• Manage logistics processes such as shipping and receiving storage
• Understand integrated systems such as (SAP, MES, Oracle)
• Recommends continuous improvement activities to improve quality and reduce cost
• Interprets company policies to workers and ensures that safety and ISM policies are followed
• Consults with Manager and/or Human Resources to resolve employee relations problems for workers he/she supervises
• Provide regular performance feedback for their employees
• Complete semi-annual review