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Summary:

CyberOptics is seeking a Production Supervisor that provides leadership and coaching to establish a cohesive and positive results driven team.  This candidate will assist in driving culture change to promote continuous improvement and increase team capabilities with engagement to coach and mentor production team members in a fast paced manufacturing environment. This candidate will provide work direction to the production department to ensure the product produced meets or exceeds quality standards and is completed by scheduled ship date.  This role will report directly to the Sr. Manager of Manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Maintains a safe and controlled manufacturing environment by educating and directing production team members on the use of all control points, tools, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.

Supervise day-to-day operations of assigned work cells or workgroup to ensure the daily Build Plan is met.

Ability to lead, manage, and hold production team members accountable for production processes such as material Work In Process (WIP), cycle count, Work Orders, material flow, Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA), and training.

Plans, develops and implements new methods and procedures designed to improve operations.  Minimize operating costs and effect greater utilization of labor and materials.

Set production cell priorities by understanding business product flow from materials, build, test, packaging, and ship.  This includes shifting resource to meet customer deliveries.

Interfaces with entire organization to ensure customer deadlines are met.  This position will work closely with the Master Scheduler, Buyers, Customer Service, and Engineering department.

Identify and resolve bottlenecks, process failures, production procedures, staffing issues, supply chain part shortage problems, and/or training deficiencies.

Establish process, protocol and involvement for new product transition for production release.

Experience, Education, and Competencies Required:

A four year degree with a minimum of 5 years of supervisor experience in a manufacturing environment.

Experienced in Lean manufacturing by using strong influence capability and ability to divert decision making.

Must possess leadership traits: good communicator, respectful across organization, collaborative overcome emotional response, be approachable, and team player.

Provide constructive feedback to direct reports to enhance their qualities and capabilities.

Familiar with production work orders or schedules to meet customer delivery, daily Build Plan, and Quarterly Revenue. 

Experienced in ERP system (QAD).  Proficient in Microsoft Office.

Core hours: 6:00am – 2:30pm

Experience, Education, and Competencies Preferred:

Familiar with optomechanical / electromechanical assembly operations using subassembly and main build assemblies.

Coach and mentor production team members’ disciplinary but in a professional manner.

Having a continuous improvement mindset to bring innovative ideas to CyberOptics organization to improve production culture by being a Change Agent.

Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma Greenbelt certification.

Physical Demands:

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 talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and sit.

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