Production Supervisor (Springfield, Missouri, US, 65802) chez John Deere US | Products & Services Information

Your Responsibilities

As a 2nd Shift Production Supervisor for John Deere Reman located in Springfield, MO, you will:

• Be responsible for achieving departmental/area goals and objectives.
• Supervise semi to highly skilled production and/or maintenance employees on an assigned shift to ensure the manufacture of products within established delivery, quality, safety and cost standards.
• Be the first-line liaison between the production employees and the management staff and thus also serve the function of representing the company's interests with the shop floor staff. 

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Establishes employee environment regarding communications, feedback and overall guidance.
• Ensures that assigned personnel have appropriate training, work instruction and tools to successfully do their job.
• Monitors Control Plans, troubleshoots workmanship problems and generally supervises production activities to ensure that manufactured products meet or exceed all established quality requirements.
• Administers employee policies, practices, procedures and work rules appropriate for the unit.
• Monitors individual and line performance and takes corrective action including discipline, as needed and responds to complaints to insure the Company and employees adheres to policies, practices, procedures and work rules.
• Determines manufacturing and/or distribution priorities based on the production schedule and makes daily assignments including filling vacancies and assigning overtime in order to adhere to the Customer Delivery date.
• Plans for maintenance of equipment and facilities to maximize the uptime and utilization of capital equipment assets.
• Monitors and makes corrections to stay within the department operating budget targets.
• Directs departmental continuous improvement plans and activities.
• Implements and monitors safety programs and housekeeping. 
• Must be available to work 2nd shift and available to work overtime.
• 3 or more years of Production Supervision experience

What Makes You Stand Out

• Knowledge of general accounting in support of establishing and managing departmental operating budgets.
• Understanding of employee policies, practices, procedures and work rules appropriate for the unit.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and/or distribution processes, quality, tooling, tool design, total preventative maintenance and facilities.
• Understanding of Deere Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Just-in- Time, Kanban, Demand Flow Technology.
• Working knowledge of the appropriate operating and information systems.
• Knowledge of shop floor manufacturing and/or warehouse and distribution production pay systems.
• Knowledge of products, customers, markets and competitors.
• 3 or more years of remanufacturing experince 

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, industrial, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management or equivalent related work experience