Supervisor - Shipping (Salary) bei Sherwood Southeast LLC

Sherwood Bedding is has 5 factory locations in the United States. Over 4 million Americans are sleeping on a Sherwood Bedding mattress. Start your career in a high demand vocational field where you have the opportunity to learn all aspects of the mattress manufacturing process. If you already have experience in mattress assembly we have direct advancement opportunities and long term growth opportunities.

We are currently seeking an exceptional Production Supervisor to be an integral part of the Orlando, Florida team at Sherwood Southeast LLC. The Production Supervisor will be directly responsible for overseeing and organizing staff, training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work and processes on the production floor. They will oversee scheduling and routine production activities, work flow, first-line point of contact should challenges arise as well as providing input for appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Primary duties and responsibilities include the following, however, Management reserves the right to assign or reassign other appropriate duties to this job at any time.

• Follow all safety guidelines and participate as a fully-empowered team member to achieve organization-wide goal of zero incidents.
• Key contact for continuous improvement in department with regards to safety, quality, productivity, and cost reduction.
• Inspects products to verify conformance to specifications and directs setup and adjustments of machines.
• Generates the final production schedules for departmental production lines.
• Schedule production equipment to meet delivery date while maximizing manufacturing efficiencies.
• Key member of scrap reduction team, responsible for suggesting and implementing corrective actions in manufacturing.
• Key member or Project Lead for Departmental Housekeeping
• Ongoing communication and follow-through with crew concerning
• Safety, Quality and Scrap issues.
• Conducts downtime root cause analysis and suggests/implements corrective action.
• Calculates worker hour requirements for completion of job assignment.
• Interprets company policies to workers and enforces safety regulations.
• Establishes or adjusts work procedures and instructions to meet productions schedules, safety regulations, and quality requirements.
• Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shop, department, or work crew.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Initiates and implements plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals.
• Maintains production records, employee attendance and performance data.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) for positions in assigned area.
• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments.
• Act as back up to Production Manager in his/her absence.

Management reserves the right to assign or reassign other appropriate duties to this job at any time. This document excludes the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be capable of performing each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Manufacturing knowledge
• Forward thinking
• Exemplary and effective communication skills
• Ability to lead a team to success
• Intermediate knowledge of PC usage required to include using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows, and data entry operations.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement skills
• Problem Solving skills
• Five (5) + years of direct supervisory experience in manufacturing environment preferred.
• Combination of education, skills and experience will be considered.
• Must be able to measure using the metric & imperial systems
• Intermediate math skills are needed to include the ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, to practical situations; ability to apply mathematical operations to tasks associated with the production of mattresses.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical form.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, repetitively use hands to touch, handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; and use hands and arms to lift, push, or pull; and to walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 lbs.

Work Environment

• Depending on the duty being performed, gloves may be required. Safety glasses are required.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts.
• The noise level in the work environment is normally moderate.
• Depending on the duties, the supervisor may be required to drive a powered industrial lift truck (fork lift).

The work environment and physical demands characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties, responsibilities, and key results of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties, responsibilities, and key results outlined herein.