Manufacturing Section Supervisor

Role Purpose

Manage production operations, plant-level operational improvement projects, and plant-level continuous improvement efforts.  Achieve cost, quality, asset effectiveness, inventory, safety, service, and growth targets.  This position will have supervisory responsibility for 6-8 salaried employees.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion process control and change management efforts to adapt to upstream and downstream operations changes, drive improvement to process capability and mitigate resultant process variation in own department.
• Provide supervision to team leaders including effective management of key resources and overall talent management objectives.
• Schedule resources and prioritize activities to assure efficient production schedule compliance to include product changeovers, upgrades, experiments, new product runs, training and maintenance activities.
• Provide daily direction to production and maintenance employees and team leaders on established procedures and policies.
• Communicate and report production and process performance metrics to production teams, plant staff division leadership and Manufacturing Effectiveness Council (MEC).  Ensure production targets and delivery requirements are met on a daily and weekly basis.
• Engage with plant teams and functional groups responsible for identifying and implementing process improvements and cost reduction projects.
• Build and maintain close relationships with other departments to share and receive feedback on upstream and downstream operations (e.g. anticipated downtime) and, in turn, optimize performance of production operations.
• Deploy Corning’s talent management programs within the department to effectively attract, develop, and maintain manufacturing talent, ensures that all salaried employees have training and development plans.
• Ensure the protection of Corning’s Intellectual Property (IP).
• Establish and define expectations for manufacturing competencies within the department.
• Approve all process/equipment changes and experimental plans involving the production process, including process improvement, new product trial runs, equipment/tooling redesign, raw material, batch and/or component changes.

Required Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts
• 2+ years' Manufacturing experience
• 2+ years' Successful and proven supervisory, team leader and/or section supervisor experience in a manufacturing plant environment.
• 2+ years' Experience and accountability for developing, implementing, and driving results for MBO’s and manufacturing line metrics.
• Proven capability to manage, coach, direct and develop salaried exempt and non-exempt employees, training in employee effectiveness, conflict resolution, coaching, listening skills, and supervisory effectiveness.
• Certified Green Belt or demonstrated Lean capabilities.
• Training, understanding and demonstrated competence in plant manufacturing financials.
• Trained and experienced in fundamentals of safety and health.
• Experience managing the talent development strategy for the department, including programs to attract, develop and retain key talent.

Desired:

• Exposure to multiple manufacturing processes and corporate network resources.
• Has participated or led a cross-functional team in manufacturing environment responsible to deliver key improvement initiative or cost reduction program.
• Experience and competence of innovation and new product development and delivery, has participated or led a project team responsible to develop and/or launch a new product into manufacturing.
• Experience in collaborating, interfacing, and communicating upward and outward (Plant, Business and Division).