Production Supervisor - Rancho Dominguez, CA
We are Techmer PM — the world’s foremost materials design firm, creating custom polymers that make up essential products. Through our long-standing partnerships with processors, original equipment manufacturers, and product designers, we’ve worked for decades to tackle manufacturing and business challenges through sustainable, future-minded solutions.
We are currently seeking a Production Supervisor in our Rancho Dominguez, California facility. This position will be on 3rd shift, Monday-Friday from 9:00 p.m. - 5:30 a.m. Training will be conducted on either 1st shift or 2nd shift, Monday-Thursday.
Benefits include:
- Eligible for medical benefits on your first day!
- High deductible health plan offering that includes up to $1,000 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 (pro-rated your first year)
- 10 company-paid holidays
- 2 weeks of parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement with up to a $20,000 lifetime maximum
- Annual salary reviews and bonus opportunities
- Hourly employees are paid weekly
Responsibilities:
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 safety-related 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, change over (C/O) reduction time and operator’s compliance to manufacturing procedures.
- Coordinates with scheduling and maintenance to have corrective and preventive maintenance done on all the equipment on time.
- Looks for opportunities for continuous improvement throughout the plant.
- 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 SOP’s when needed.
- Actively engaged in working with staff, leads and process engineering to troubleshoot any non-conformance 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 non-conformance and rework and reduce manufacturing costs.
- Ensures production is always in compliance with ISO 9001 procedures and participates in audits as needed.
- Utilizes cross-training and other methods to continually develop team skill sets in batching and extruding processes.
- Makes sure ERP transactions are error-free and on time.
- Works with Production 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 process-related procedure.
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 2-3 years of prior manufacturing supervisory experience.
- Experience in using and following a Quality Management System in Manufacturing (QMS).
- Computer literate in MS Office and experience with Microsoft D365 ERP system preferred.
- 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 Spanish (preferred) with excellent written and spoken communication skills.
Salary range $80,000-$95,000 depending upon experience.