Production Supervisor - Manufacturing

What you’ll do:

The Production Supervisor is responsible for creating a setting an environment in which employees become involved, responsible, and self-motivated.  This role will be responsible for; Continuous Improvement activities, Execution of Processes that provide Quality Products, administration of organization policies and support activities for all plant objectives, and follow-up on training plans for team members. You will drive the processes in the department through the Eaton Business Systems, assist the plant leadership team in the development of processes to achieve a zero-incident culture, maximize output, maintain machinery, reduce overall costs, and through these improvements exceed the customer’s expectations. Make sure that the organization's decision-making is based on a process-oriented culture – to ensure the linkage from strategy to actions.
 
In this function, you will:
 
Operational Efficiency

• Utilize the Tier Meeting process to track and assess key operational metrics and implement actions and methods to improve operational performance.
• Direct day-to-day activities in production areas, including manpower movement, job assignments, time/attendance/vacation data, and pull the workload to meet all customer needs in the most effective manner.
• Lead and/or champion EBS Pull (needle mover), or main business projects assigned to her/him to meet business objectives and goals.
• Support the deployment of the different EBS functional initiatives important for the business, CIF (Continuous Improvement Framework), EQMS (Quality), ELSS (LEAN), and others.

Team Engagement and Development

• Establish and maintain a positive, engaged employee team sentiment through the application of Eaton’s Leadership Attributes and aspirational Goals. Create and maintain a high level of employee morale.
• Follow up on training and development of hourly team members, as well as providing coaching and oversight to dotted-line functional team members.
• Clearly define and inform expectations, providing positive reinforcement when met and providing coaching and counseling as necessary when not met.

Safety Management

• Provide documentation of all disciplinary actions taken against employees who violate health and safety rules and underperform in any category of the employee expectations and metrics.
• Champion a Safety Culture through using MESH tools, safety best practices, and empowering all employees to take responsibility for their own safety as well as that of everyone around them.
• Perform timely investigations of accidents, identification of root cause and rapid correction of contributing factors, and Inform commitment to health and safety.

Communication and Policy Management

• Inform the department’s employees on subjects relating to policy problem resolution, department objectives, and quality issues.

Administrative Oversight

• Control and manage overtime, tools, and other budgets within current guidelines.
• Manage payroll, attendance, performance reviews, and other administrative needs in a timely and accurate manner.
• Manage the work and safety performance of your workforce and document accordingly.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution is required.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing or a production assembly line.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing/supervising teams.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates that current reside within 50 miles of El Paso, TX facility will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing a team preferred.
• Experience implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
• Bilingual in English/Spanish.