Summary: Ensure production is carried out in compliance with quality requirements and management objectives, with the authority to stop production processes whenever risks or nonconformities are identified.
Essential Job Functions (Duties and Responsibilities): The primary duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Monitor production schedules assigned by the Production Manager, focusing on the effective utilization of equipment, resources, and personnel assigned to production.
- Coordinate the activities of Production Supervisors.
- Ensure compliance with checklists, visual aids, and standardized work instructions. Notify management of any deviations or required changes to these standards.
- Lead, promote, and communicate international, corporate, customer, and internal Quality Management policies, as well as any related updates.
- Lead, promote, and communicate international, corporate, customer, and internal Health and Safety policies, as well as any related updates.
- Ensure compliance with production and production control procedures, and report results to the Production Manager.
- Foster communication and actively participate with leadership during Safety, Quality, and Productivity meetings.
- Ensure and demonstrate continuous improvement in organizational performance with respect to safety, cost, and quality.
- Coordinate operational resources and efforts required to ensure production requirements are met on time and with the expected quality standards.
- Identify training needs and provide standardized work training to production personnel.
- Promote continuous improvement ideas within the Production team.
- Lead by example in achieving Quality Indicators (Safety – Product – Process – Quality Management System (QMS) – Environmental Management System (EMS)).
- Establish standards for implementing and promoting the 5S methodology.
- Ensure and coordinate efforts to protect company infrastructure, equipment, customer property, and documented information.
- Promote and maintain positive morale among production teams.
- Provide coverage for Team Leader absences when required.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience in automotive manufacturing process control.
Language Requirements: Not required
- Ability to develop work instructions, checklists, and visual aids.
- Ability to train production personnel.
- Ability to apply Lean Manufacturing tools.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and database applications.
Technical Knowledge:
- Basic knowledge of Metallurgy.
- Knowledge of IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 standards.
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
Physical and Mental Requirements: The following physical and mental requirements are representative of those needed to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
- Ability to work in both seated and standing positions for extended periods in an office and industrial environment.
- Ability to enter data using computer equipment.
- Ability to bend, pull, push, reach, and perform other routine physical movements.
- Ability to lift between 10 and 25 kilograms (22–55 pounds).
- Ability to work in environments with varying temperatures, vapors, noise, humidity, and similar industrial conditions.
- Ability to read documents, view computer monitors and displays, and perform visual inspections.
- Ability to communicate effectively in person and by telephone.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Cognitive ability to perform the essential functions of the position.
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and levels of the work performed by employees, but are not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, the job description does not constitute a written or implied contract for employment. Bodycote reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
Bodycote has a longstanding commitment to provide a safe, quality-oriented, and productive work environment and for these reasons, all applicants in the United States who receive a conditional offer of employment must undergo a drug screen before employment begins.
Bodycote is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against current and prospective employees based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals over forty years of age, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.
