Production Supervisor

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Owens Corning is a global leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composite materials. Their innovative products are utilized to enhance energy efficiency, durability, and performance in buildings and industrial settings.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Production Supervisor who will be responsible for the safe, quality-focused, and efficient day-to-day operation of a manufacturing shift of personnel.

Assumes the responsibility to ensure their staff is properly trained to perform their primary functions autonomously and creates and maintains a sustainable plan to cross-train for maximum flexibility of their shift complement.

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree – preferred (Majors – Engineering or Business are strongly preferred)

Work Experience

• Experience directly leading people in an industrial manufacturing or maintenance operations environment (strongly preferred)

Duties/Responsibilities

• Accountable for employee safety.
• Actively manages the continued training, development, and growth of all personnel.
• Aligns with the Roofing and Asphalt business goals. Develops and achieves personal objectives that stretch self and align with the Department, Plant, Division, and Company goals.
• Assists in developing their staff’s understanding of the equipment, process, and the effects of their actions up and downstream to their area. Ensures a macro and micro level understanding of the plant processes and the interrelation to the individual work area.
• Audits daily to ensure data accuracy of all inputs (e.g., check sheets, layered process audits, computer inputs, etc.)
• Demonstrate a commitment to building an exceptional workplace environment, fostering open communication, employee engagement, and inclusion.
• Encourages a culture of data-driven decision making
• Ensures Operator training materials are maintained up to date through routine audit and management of change process input to Training and Development (T&D) Pillar Leader when changes occur in process settings, equipment, etc.
• Ensures the plant is always in a clean, customer tour-ready state; owns a plan that identifies hazards, including housekeeping issues, resolves and sustains the plan in an ongoing fashion
• Ensures the safe manufacture of a quality product following the schedule requirements
• Holds others accountable for working safely and engaging actively in safety initiatives to maintain a zero-incident culture
• Is a positive change agent, encouraging and closely involved in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) efforts to ensure shift culture mirrors initiatives
• Models the appropriate safe work practices and prioritizes safety above all other metrics
• Professional and motivating communication skills to recognize and bring out the best in each employee
• Provides appropriate resources to ensure a fully engaged and incident-free operation
• Provides daily management of timekeeping systems to ensure payroll accuracy is maintained
• Sets clear expectations of performance and establishes, communicates, and regularly reviews commitments to make certain milestones are achieved as planned
• Success will be measured by the Production Supervisor’s ability to coordinate with peer groups to collectively achieve operational excellence in safety, quality, cost control, inclusion, engagement, inter-department cohesion, and compliance.
• When operating on an off shift, it represents the entire management team

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Knowledge of Lean, 6S, and TPM.
• Ability to reduce waste through continuous improvement of existing processes
• Mechanical aptitude (highly preferable)

Work Environment

• May work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Often exposed to noise, machinery, and fast-paced environments
• Oversees daily operations and staff performance
• Responsible for enforcing safety and production standards
• Works primarily on the manufacturing floor

Employer’s Statement

Owens Corning is an Equal Opportunity Employer.