Production Supervisor II Don Plant (Pocatello, ID)

Summary

Incumbents in this position provide leadership and direction in a safe, environmentally sound and efficient manner in accordance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations.  Supervise, schedule, evaluate, train, and motivate hourly personnel. Maintain high level of confidentiality. The incumbent is also expected to provide leadership in process, organizational, and personnel improvement efforts. He/she will also perform at a high level in positively relating to others and positively representing to others the views of his/her leadership. The incumbent will be a proactive maintenance and operations leader, identifying process and equipment vulnerabilities and creating plans to act upon findings

Key Responsibilities

• Strengthen and improve safety in the workplace through compliance within state, federal and plant rules and regulations, inspection, and training.
• Serve as Incident Commander and/or Safety Officer during safety and environmental incidents as required. Ensure environmental compliance through proper knowledge and enforcement of procedures and requirements.
• Report hazards, near misses, and incidents through Enablon.   Conduct preliminary investigations into incidents.  Participate in and support the CARE about safety program.
• Effectively encourage new and innovative ways of thinking.
• Maintain good lines of communication among departments, crews, other supervisors, and management.  Read and understand area notes and translate them into a plan of the day for operations.  Prepare and review shift notes, provide follow up, troubleshooting steps taken, and path forward as needed.  Escalate safety, environmental, and production issues to key stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Set example, sustain open communications, coach hourly employees, and provide training opportunities, set goals, conduct performance evaluations, remedy employee work issues.  Meet with trainees on a routine basis. 
• Manage employee performance and disciplinary actions as needed.  Handle employee/crew timekeeping, including vacation entry and approval and attendance policy expectations and follow up.  Uphold respectful workplace policies, enforce work rules.
• Conduct and/or ensure completion of various weekly and monthly inspections.  Conduct monthly emergency response drills and STAR Team check-ins.  Conduct monthly safety meetings and ensure actions/follow up items are escalated and follow up provided as needed.
• Uphold programs, policies, and procedures; ensure they are utilized and reviewed routinely.  Ensure direct reports have the training and tools to complete jobs safely and efficiently.
• Be responsible for equipment uptime and account for equipment downtime. Ensure work orders are entered in a timely manner for equipment issues and properly coded for tracking purposes. 
• Organize small outages (down days) to minimize equipment downtime by establishing effective cross-departmental partnerships.  Call-out additional resources in the off-shift to minimize production downtime due to process upsets and/or equipment failure.
• Monitor product grade and ensure process adjustments are made to ensure all products (both intermediate and finished) are on spec.  Ensure product sampling and quality control testing is being completed and results acted on accordingly.
• Understand the Collective Bargaining Agreement and apply rules fairly and consistently.
• Perform frequent area audits, including operators in the walk throughs; "see what I see". Address any safety or housekeeping issues observed during the walk.
• Ensure proper staffing levels for the plant to efficiently run 24 hours.

Typical Education

High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

Relevant Experience

• Minimum of 3 years supervisory/management experience, preferably in manufacturing operations
• Experience in Phosphate Operations a plus
• Strong communication skills, both internally and externally
• Previous Union experience is a plus
• Ability to achieve results through others
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be self-motivated and a self-starter
• Strong knowledge of computer systems, preferred system knowledge in SAP and/or JDE