Supervisor, Production

At TDW we put people first - that means working everyday to ensure the pipelines that run through our communities are operating safely and reliably. What sets us apart is our expertise, experience and commitment.
- Each day we dedicate ourselves to treating each other, our customers and our community with care and respect._

Overview
- Safely manage Manufacturing Product Line, deliver products with no quality defects, respect production committed date (confirmed stock date), at best possible cost. Set and sustain a Continuous Improvement culture within the Product Line.
- Key Responsibilities
- Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

- Creates all required conditions for the team to work safely and checks that all team members and visitors are respecting the HSE rules,
- Develops HSE training and communication (weekly HSE meetings, yellow cards, STOP cards, etc.),
- Ensures that all safety and housekeeping standards are adequate to achieve a safe work environment,
- Create all required conditions to avoid any long-term incident (LTI), analyzes the root cause of any LTI and implement corrective action plans;
- Ensures that the manufactured products respect the customer specifications and interrupts the manufacturing of products with non-conformity,
- Checks that all products with non-conformity are under control and organizes corrective action plan.
- Ensure traceability requirements are met in all times (batch markings, welding parameters, test reports,)
- Ensure necessary tools, documentation, work instructions are provided to the operators in order to perform their work in a safe and efficient manner.
- Together with Planners, build realistic production plans based on raw material deliveries and Order Delivery requirements (Confirmed Stock Date).
- Ensures manpower levels are sufficient to support production schedules,
- Anticipates all situations that can generate delay towards objectives, modifies the work order and decides to subcontract some operations,
- Checks that all equipment is available, plans the test equipment according to the order planning, requires and organizes technical modification of the equipment if necessary (to solve technical, quality or safety concerns)
- Initiates, leads or ensures constructive contribution of his staff to all continuous improvement’s workshops,
- Ensures that production organization follows the 5S standards;
- Selects, evaluates, motivates and develops employees to ensure a qualified workforce necessary to meet company objectives, while complying with local employment guidelines,
- Empower manpower flexibility in terms of competencies,
- Sets personal objectives, provides fair and constructive feedback, assesses accurately employee performance, training needs, areas for improvement and possibility of future growth within the organization, and ensures training & development needs are addressed,
- Develops a positive team dynamic to ensure high performance,
- Leads the continuous improvement process in his team.
- Reports to the Value Stream Manager,
- Supervises, in collaboration with the leads, the machine, assembly, paint & weld shops,
- Works in collaboration with other departments (Engineering, Purchasing, Traffic, Warehouse, etc.) and the support functions (HSE & Human Resources),
- Is able to contact and work with TDW suppliers.
- Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanics and/or welding, with minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in shop supervisory management in a mechanical environment,
- Experience in lean manufacturing and continuous improvements (5S, Kaisen, SMED, etc.),
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Excellent communication skills,
- Leadership skills
- Have managed, 25 - 30 direct employees.
- IT literate.
NOTE: This is a non-DOT position and is not considered to be Safety Sensitive.