Production Supervisor

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving two primary markets – passenger vehicle and commercial truck – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

• Compiles and records production data from such documents as customer orders, work tickets, product specifications and individual work production sheets.
• Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner to meet current needs, such as reprioritizing work as necessary.
• Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of the System (education, organizing, housekeeping, assisting others, etc.).
• Calculates factors such as types and quantities of items produced, materials used, amount of scrap, frequency of defects, and work and department production rates.
• Prepares written work schedules based on established guidelines and priorities.
• Ensure efficient production coverage by assessing availability of appropriate Team members (e.g. daily staffing, vacation calendars, training matrix, etc.).
• Maintain an environment to promote efficiency and positive employee relations.
• Reviews and monitors for accuracy, timesheets and attendance records.
• Die management with focus on last piece auditing and schedule of production with die availability.
• Training and development of current workforce.
• Train Team Members in Safety and Quality rules & procedures and the application in the operations of the Team Member’s assigned job.
• Interface with other plant personnel other than internal Team Members as required.
• Perform administrative duties as directed by the Operations Manager, including layered audits and containment status reports/findings.
• Perform audits of production floor including first piece sign offs, last piece sign offs, limit samples, fixtures/templates, PR and PM books, and standardized work.
• Review quality performance for shifts and maintain area boards including KPI metrics for quality and PR tags.
• Maintain and monitor impound areas. Make decisions as needed on suspect product and audit tagging procedure.
• Monitor and audit of containment areas as required.
• Track and follow up on quality alerts and progress toward countermeasures.
• Promote safety, quality, and housekeeping.
• Communicate problem equipment and help ensure proper prioritization to get issue addressed.
• Perform statistical process control (SPC) including data gathering associated with product quality and dimensional control in a manner that does not distract from product quality or output.
• Identifies opportunities for improvements that can be made to the process.
• Conducts visual 5S inspection of area and makes changes as needed.
• Assist Team Members or other members of the organization with concern and empathy; respect their confidentiality and privacy and communicate with them in a courteous and respectful manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned by manager/supervisor.

• Safety and Quality minded.
• Computer literacy required:
  Microsoft Office, Spreadsheet, PowerPoint and Database software. SAP a plus.
• Knowledge of the basic principles of Accounting desired.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate orally or in written form with co-workers, departments, supervision, customers, and vendors as required.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of all policies and procedures and ability to reference them from appropriate books, manuals, databases, etc.
• Ensure that production operations are operated in an efficient and cost-effective manner by adhering to Company attendance polices.
• Knowledge of manufacturing terminology as demonstrated by work experience or education.
• Ability to work in high traffic area while maintaining confidentiality.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to cover for supervision.

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