Our company culture is built upon YKK’s philosophy called the CYCLE OF GOODNESS™. We believe that providing value and being fair to our customers and our employees is what makes us a successful company in return. Guided by our core values and fundamental behaviors, we strive to foster a caring company, committed employees and challenging work that benefits our employees, customers, and communities. We offer competitive compensation packages, training and advancement opportunities. YKK AP America provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide the security they need to enjoy life at home and at work. By providing a high level of benefit coverage at a reasonable cost to the employee, we hope to foster a long and productive employment relationship. **Supervisor, Fabrication - 1st Shift** **5:00 am - 1:30 pm** Direct Unit Operations to assure effectiveness and efficiency of resources to achieve performance goals. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** + Lead the manufacturing of building products to meet production demands, while ensuring quality, safety, and environmental responsibility. + Develop and implement headcount/staffing guidelines while controlling manpower costs. + Interview, hire, supervise, evaluate, and replace employees as required to ensure performance objectives are met/exceeded. + Perform all time approval functions and coordinate times off coverage. + Maintain a high degree of leadership and supervisory skills including developing and training employees to assume positions of increasing responsibilities; evaluating employees and providing feedback to perform better; conducting daily shift meetings for Safety and Production. + Ensure all incidents including environmental and near misses are properly reported, investigated and documented with preventive/corrective actions and employee statements. + Drive continuous improvement plans which lead to cost reductions including 5S. + Interact with and share service findings to Quality team for improvements. + Review and recommend any process improvements to include but not limited to employee development, production methods, equipment, quality, safety, service and overall performance of the shift. + Deliver training to shift employee in various areas including but not limited to setup/operation, testing, troubleshooting, machine metrics reporting and safety procedures. + Identify potential career paths for employees and work with the employee to develop their skills and knowledge to progress within the company. Provide documentation and follow up to training and job responsibilities. + Assign and manage employee schedules. + Complete paperwork relative to line operation. + Support Preventive Maintenance and downtime events as needed. + Maintain knowledge and understanding of all safety polices and address all unsafe acts and conditions. + Administer policies and local plant practices in a fair and consistent manner. + Provide coaching/counseling to employees and progressive discipline when needed, based upon company guidelines. + Communicate and collaborate daily with other production departments. + Must be able to lift up to 50lbs. + Other duties may be assigned as required **Supervisory Responsibilities:** + Individual manages all department associates. + Supports employee training. + Assigning and directing work. + Supports the interview and hiring process for the Business Unit. + Disciplining employees and supports supervisors in the coaching and development of their direct reports. **Education/Experience:** + At least 2 years of experience in construction, millwork or equivalent combination of education and experience. + Exhibited Leadership skills either through formal leadership roles or informal leadership roles. + Good working knowledge of Microsoft Programs (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) + Must have good communication and organizational skills 5-S training preferred. + Vigilant about safety + Quality oriented **Certificates and Licenses:** + Valid driver’s license **Work Environment:** + The noise level in the work environment may be loud, which may require employees to shout. + Employee must wear Safety PPE including but not limited to Safety Glasses, Safety Shoes and Ear Protection. **Physical Demands:** + Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination + Frequent standing, walking, sitting and climbing + Must be able to lift up to 50lbs without assistance + Must be able to lift 50+lbs with assistance. + Use of hand tools and ladders + Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone. ​ **Recruiter Contact:** YOLANDA GRIMES YOLANDAGRIMES@YKKAP.COM ​ **YKK AP America Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.** **Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant** **(Opens in a new window)** **.** **YKK AP America Inc. will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.** **United States Department of Labor.** **Learn more** **(Opens in a new window)** **.** **YKK AP America Inc. participates in the E-Verify program as required by law.** **Learn more about the E-Verify program** **(Opens in a new window)** **.** **YKK AP America Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can follow the process outlined below when applying for a position: Provide your name and contact information to YKK AP's Accommodations team at accommodationrequest@ykkap.com (accommodationrequest@apple.com) . Your request will be responded to as soon as possible. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.** **Employment with YKK AP America Inc. is conditioned upon successfully completing a negative drug test for the presence of illegal drugs.**