Production Supervisor

Sensaria is the world's foremost producer of grand and large-format digital graphics. We are an industry leader in creating innovative products for outdoor advertising, business signage, wall decor, art reproduction, and the professional photography and art communities.

Our combined 600k+ square feet of manufacturing facilities across the United States house over 180 grand and large format digital printers, custom automated finishing equipment, and coating capabilities to produce printed recyclable materials up to 16 ft. wide. Our prepress department processes more than 50,000 files per day with the aid of proprietary software automation tools. We operate around-the-clock, 7 days a week to deliver extraordinary customer service, and print over 400 million square feet of material annually. We specialize in industry leading innovations accompanied by world-class service.

The role of the Production Supervisor is to supervise the Sensaria Production Team.  The Sensaria Production Supervisor is accountable for meeting and improving Operations Key Performance Indicators including Safety, Quality, On Time Delivery, and Labor Cost per unit.  The ideal candidate must have a hands-on approach, spending more than 80% of the time participating on the floor. 

       Supervision and Safety: 40% of position responsibility

       Provide daily direction to leads and operators to ensure product is produced safely, per standards operating procedures, 5S guidelines, and area playbooks to ensure product quality and on time delivery to customers.

       Conduct daily team meetings, reviewing safety, quality, and output metrics.

       Plan and implement daily area staffing. Reorganize staffing as necessary to keep lines balanced and output steady.

       Drive machine uptime by coordinating maintenance and repair as needed, and ensuring daily cleaning and PM programs are completed.

       Employee Development: 30% of position responsibility

       Provide regular feedback to employees with respect to work performance and accountability including anti-harassment, attendance, and privacy policies. Utilize HR performance management process as needed.

       Identify training needs and arrange needed training with Training Coordinator. All training must be documented by Training Coordinator and Training Assistants.

       Identify and acknowledge outstanding employee performance.

       Help to develop employees for future opportunities and promotions.

       Create succession plans to ensure business continuity.

       Performance to Metrics: 30% of position responsibility

       Quality:

       Percentage of reprints: Monitor reprint yield. Focus and drive improvement based on highest impacts.

       Percentage of red sheets: Monitor customer quality. Drive for operational improvements as needed.

       Lead-time from Assigned to Ship status

       On Time Delivery: Monitor and drive for improvements to lead time

       To Customer Delivery Date (Internal Lead Time goal)

       To Target Ship Date (customer commitment)

       Labor cost/unit:

       Monitor and improve operator efficiency (units/person hour) at each position

       Control overtime and headcount to ensure unit cost targets are met.

       Material cost/unit: Monitor in process material scrap, taking needed actions to minimize.

       High School Diploma required.

       2+ years' experience in a production management preferred

       Bi-lingual English/Spanish preferred

       Flexibility to work in a demanding environment including ability to multi-task, and reassessing priorities on a continual basis.

       Strong communicative skills

       Strong problem solving skills

       Strong organization skills

       Excellent planning skills

       Excellent teaming skills.

       Understand and dedication to Lean Principles including 5S

       Computer skills including excel expertise and MRP planning software.

       Must understand vague and implicit instructions, and react favorably in all work situations.

       Must be approachable and responsive to a variety of people and issues.

       Must be able to resolve problems, handle conflict and make effective decisions under pressure.

       Must have a long attention span in order to listen to people. Perceive the real problems and bring issues to a successful conclusion.

       Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, and customers.

       Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

       Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, calculate figures and amounts such as, proportions and percentages, and apply concepts of basic algebra.

       Professional language, appearance, and tone are required at all times.

       Expected to work 45+ hours as required by production demands. May need to work off shift or weekends.