Quality Supervisor

Southwire Job Description

The Quality Supervisor is responsible for providing leadership to the quality assurance team and facilitating the QA processes to ensure products and services are meeting our customers and Southwire’s standards and expectations. This person works with the Leads, employees, and other members of management in their facility to oversee the production floor, manages the human capital plan, drive operational excellence, and direct capacity management.

Human Capital:

• Performance Management
• Provide coaching and feedback
• Establish goals and objectives
• Career Development planning and discussions
• Document work performance and administer discipline
• Employee Engagement and responding to eNPS identified priority drivers
• Acts as a Management Representative during off-business hours (such as weekends and holidays) - shift rotation
• Resource management
• Ensure the right resources are in the right place to run the operation
• First point of escalation for employee/personnel issues
• Participates in turnover analysis
• Staffing control – manage vacations, leaves, job movements, etc. to ensure adequate staffing
• Participate in interviews of new candidates
• Establish training plans to include new hires, new to position, cross training, etc.
• Approval of employee’s timecard in ADP on a daily basis

Operational Excellence:

• Leads Tier 1 Daily Accountability process with Team Leaders
• Facilitate the Daily Huddle Process
• Problem solving/analyzing
• Managing Incomes/outcomes
• Drive results vs plan
• Be able to lead and contribute to Kaizen events

Qualifications and Experience Requirements

• 
  Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a production control/planning environment preferred.
• Molten metals experience preferred
• Can do minimum manipulation of data in excel and formula creation, calculate percentages, percent difference and understand Pareto charts at a level to train and explain to others.
• Experience with ISO 9001:2015 internal auditing preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• Must be proficient in Word, Excel and other software products and have a very good aptitude for information systems
• SAP, Advaris, Kaizen Optimizer, Cable builder knowledge is preferred
• Environment:
• Must be able to work in an environment with exposure to heat/cold conditions and levels of noise, and potential exposure to various industrial liquids, oils, gases, etc.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing for potential long periods of time. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items 50 pounds or less. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Competencies