Shift Leader

Company: Filtration Group Corp
Location: Buffalo
Posted on: January 9, 2021

Job Description:

Overview:

• The person in this role manages Value Stream production manufacturing operations on a daily basis with a focus on safety and quality. Leads production room teams, production support, and Value Stream representatives to ensure production is properly planned and executed to meet the demands of our customers. Assist Value Stream Managers/ Production Coordinators in support of daily Value Stream tasks and long-term development projects. Responsible for daily decision making, focused on maximizing production and solving issues that affect deliveries, room efficiencies, manpower, parts supply, quality and other factors relating to production operations.Responsibilities:
  • Ensures manufacturing operations are running at maximum efficiency.
  • Responsible for ensuring manufacturing teams are hitting expected production numbers and production priorities are in line with customer demand and can achieve projected shipping requirements.
  • Daily decision-making relative to what machines are required to run and what orders need to be completed based upon available production personnel and equipment. Assures communication of these requirements across all shifts
  • Adheres to all aspects of plant safety and performing safety audits on a continual basis.
  • Responsible for knowing what orders are starting and finishing and what change-overs are required for production continuity using production planning tools such as heijunka, XA, and daily communication with production planners.
  • Handles daily production related issues including manpower movements for assigned Value Stream(s).
  • Reviews current staffing levels and work with HR to keep at planned levels.
  • Communicates material outages during production runs and drives resolution through Value Stream Team.
  • Follows up with issue resolution and material shortage resolution.
  • Coordinates communications for updates and changing production situations.
  • Manages in-room Gemba activities. Strong support for team leaders during presentations.
  • Collaborates with and mentors team leaders.
  • Manages execution of review process for production level employees and team leaders. Sets production leadership annual goals.
  • Handles employee discipline, time-off requests, attendance recording, payroll approval for the shift and selected critical support groups.
  • Identifies opportunities for improvement related to production downtime, inefficiencies, and other leading/lagging indicators.
  • Works with lean teams to facilitate projects, drive to completion, and track status of A3 and kaizen reports.
  • Collaborates lean team activities to Project Facilitator to drive to project completion.
  • Responsible for Customer Audit Support as required.
  • Assists in complaint investigation and resolution actions as assigned by QE.
  • Responsible for opening and closing building as required under normal production.
  • Develops and supports plans for weekend overtime, as needed
  • At times may need to work another shift to provide coverage for other supervisors who may be off.Qualifications:
    • High School Diploma or equivalent. Some college preferred
    • Strong mechanical aptitude for production equipment and comfortable using hand tools
    • Understanding of LEAN manufacturing principles
    • Strong mathematical aptitude
    • ability to mentor and lead peers and
    • Attention to detail
    • Strong work ethic
    • Good organizational skills
    • Ability to manage change
    • Ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines
    • Good analytical skills
    • Knowledge of SPC
    • Ability to effectively interface with multiple levels within the organization
    • reports
    • Must be able to work on feet for up to 8 hours or more when needed
    • Capable of lifting up to 50 lbs occasionally
    • Capable of flexing, bending and walking for long periods of timeMultisorb is committed to providing a work environment that is free from unlawful discrimination and harassment in any form. Multisorb will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship. If you are interested in applying for employment and feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at 716-824-8900Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group operates across a wide variety of attractive end markets and produces mission critical products with high replacement rates. Over 80 percent of the Company's revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer's products or processes.With revenues of $1.4 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 6,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.Filtration Group is an affiliate of Madison Industries, one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Madison builds entrepreneurially driven, branded market leaders that are committed to making the world safer, healthier and more productive by creating innovative solutions that deliver outstanding customer value. The team at Madison is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts them while coaching others to reach their highest potential. Madison's footprint spans across Europe, Asia and the Americas operating over 216 facilities in 45 countries, with over 12,000 engaged employees. Having successfully built market leaders in filtration, medical, safety, instruments, heat transfer, and indoor air quality, Madison generates revenue of $5 billion, with an enterprise value worth well over $7 billion.

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