Production Department Supervisor
Blum, Inc
This is a Contract position in Stanley, NC posted February 5, 2022.
We are seeking a dynamic Production Department Supervisor to join our 3rd shift team at Blum USA. If you are interested in the challenge of working at a company that produces innovative products, then we would like to hear from you. We are a family owned business that offers a culturally diverse work environment, competitive benefits package and an opportunity to challenge your abilities. This is a great opportunity to link your career with an established international company.
Job Responsibilities
As a Production Department Supervisor, in one of our Automated Assembly departments, you will be expected coordinate and monitor the work and activities of all shift personnel & processes to ensure everyone is working together to accomplish defined goals
Additional responsibilities for this position include:
- Managing personnel, medical emergency, fire response, security and facility related problems
- Investigating complaints, disturbances and violations and resolves problems following company policies
- Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance
- Reviewing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering time constraints
- Conferring with department managers, supervisors and/or team leaders to coordinate operations and activities within their department or between departments
- Maintaining safe work environment by consistently enforcing all safety policies, guidelines and regulations
- Preparing and submitting accident reports and transports non-critically injured personnel for treatment
- Contacting local law enforcement using 911 when necessary
- Limited and/or no US/International travel required
Job Requirements
To be successful in this type of position, we need team players who bring a positive attitude to the work place and enjoy being around and working with others. The ideal candidate will have a minimum 3 years of management and/or supervisory experience in a medium sized Industrial/Manufacturing environment.
Additional requirements for this position include:
- Associates degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering, or a program closely relating to manufacturing management is preferred
- Knowledge of business and organizational planning, coordination and resource allocation
- Knowledge of HR related policies and practices
- Understanding of the various ways performance can be improved in organizations and how to apply them
- Knowledge of inputs, outputs, raw materials, waste, quality control and costs
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
- Effective at gathering information through interviews and other probing methods
- Coordination of activities and management of one’s time and the time of others to achieve daily goals
- Establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with individuals from other departments
- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong and to determine corrective action that is within your authority
- The ability to bring conflicting parties together to form an agreeable solution
- Can use computers, programs and their applications as needed
- Finds it easy to adjust one’s behavior in order to deal effectively with other people
- Can modify one’s approach in response to changing priorities or input/feedback of others
- Able to adapt to an international company culture
- Can work a 3rd shift schedule (Sunday thru Thursday from 11pm to 7am) plus weekend overtime
Benefits
Blum USA believes in offering their employees an excellent benefits package that includes:
- Salaried position with paid overtime
- Possible bonus opportunities
- Health (Medical and Dental)
- 401(k) with employee matching
- Flexible spending account to cover eligible out of pocket health, dental and vision expenses
- Three weeks of vacation starting your second year on the job
- Term life insurance equal to annual salary at no cost to employee
- And more!
Company Overview
For more than 60 years Blum has been manufacturing superior quality hinge systems, drawer runners, and lift systems that create emotion and enhance user convenience in the kitchen. With every product, we strive to develop solutions to ensure that cabinet doors and drawers open with ease, close softly and effortlessly, and make workflow and everyday kitchen use easier.
Over the decades our product range has grown and so has the company. Today, Blum has seven production plants in Austria, and manufacturing sites in Brazil, Poland and the United States. Approximately 8000 Blum employees all over the world concentrate on the vision of “perfecting motion” to satisfy the specific requirements of the end user, whether it is in the kitchen or in another living area of the home. This prerequisite is the source of all our product development and innovation.
