Production Supervisor

The Warehouse Production Supervisor is responsible for establishing metrics and scheduling for all processing departments and employees. This role ensures that all production departments are operated in a manner consistent with company safety initiatives and within all OSHA / Government agency guidelines.

• Plan, direct, supervise all activities pertaining to steel processing. Ensure that employees have all resources available to effectively meet or exceed required production and quality goals and provide customer service consistent with management expectations while maintaining a safe working environment
• Establish and execute efficient, orderly and safe material handling procedures.
• Organize work schedules, shift responsibilities and production schedules
• Training of new employees in safety protocols, proper work assignments, and job responsibilities
• Control absenteeism and maintain discipline consistent with Intsel Steel East policies
• Communicate and cooperate with other departments to resolve and prevent problems
• Control housekeeping
• Coordinate processing schedule, route orders for delivery and communicate with sales departments, logistics departments, purchasing departments and accounting departments
• Promote and encourage a clean and safe work environment to include PPE training
• Inspection of all materials to be processed and shipped
• Schedule all maintenance and maintenance programs for all processing equipment
• Respond to emails/ phone calls /messages within acceptable timeframe.
• Coordinate stock checks, locate missing material, change of locations and investigate inventory errors
• Implement methods of efficient material flow and equipment usage
• Perform Employee evaluations
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
• 2-4 years of prior warehouse supervisory experience, preferably with a metals, fabrication or manufacturing background.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Decision making Skills
• Leadership qualities
• Able to deal effectively with employees / customers / Truck drivers and Vendors
• Ability to multi-task, ability to deal with constant changes circumstances and situations
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, pressured environment and consistently meet deadlines

Physical Requirements 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands/fingers to handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock when in the operations or laboratory areas. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but due to the open office environment noise level may occasionally be high.

Disclaimer The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.