Assembly Supervisor
3 weeks ago
Palatine, Illinois, United States
S&C Electric
Full time
About the Role:
S&C Electric Company, a 100% employee-owned company, is seeking a dynamic individual to coordinate our leadership function. As an Assembly Supervisor, you will play a crucial role in ensuring smooth operations and supporting our diverse team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work cooperatively with the assembly team to achieve safety, quality, and productivity goals.
- Prioritize and schedule the assembly workload.
- Perform planning functions to ensure the timely availability of staffing and materials.
- Maintain an on-time shipping performance of at least 95%.
- Set and maintain high levels of product quality.
- Provide the necessary direction to attain high levels of employee productivity.
- Promote safety awareness and housekeeping and investigate and report on safety incidents.
- Contribute input and monitor departmental budgets.
- Conduct performance appraisals for employees.
- Provide recommendations or initiate decisions regarding hires, promotions, corrective action, and terminations.
- Conduct team-building meetings to promote continuous improvement principles.
- Identify training and skill development to meet departmental needs using standard work methodology where possible.
Requirements:
- Associate degree in a technical or business-related field, or equivalent experience.
- Leadership, supervision experience, or project management experience.
- Technical aptitude and knowledge of assembly processes and equipment, e.g. high mix/low volume production environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, e.g., 4-Step Problem Solving process.
- Proven team building and change management skills to coach, mentor, and empower team members throughout the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to read blueprints and good PC skills, e.g. Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to manipulate data from Oracle and other programs to pareto daily defects for multiple product lines, create DPU charts, and customer satisfaction reports.
- Mechanical Assembly experience.
- Previously supervised 10-20 employees.
- Four years of experience combining: Guiding team members in a project or have supervisory level responsibility, hands on project management and a 2-year degree (or equivalent) and working for or with various type assembly operations.
About S&C Electric:
S&C Electric is a specialist in electric power switching and protection, providing products for the electric power industry since 1911. We empower our people by providing pathways to a long-term career and support them in their professional growth by sustaining a culture founded on respect, strengthened by collaboration, and measured by our shared successes.