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 a Manufacturing Department, 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 Department.

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 within the team.

- Reports to the Production 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.

- Follows the HSE policy by applying the instructions and procedures of the HSE manual, by participating actively in the Hazards and (Near-miss) Incident Identification and by behaving safety.

- Follows the directives of the Quality System (ISO 9001) chosen by applying the instructions and procedures of the system as specified in the documents of Level I

Experience:

- Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in supervising in a welding or mechanical manufacturing environment

- Experience in lean manufacturing and continuous improvements (5S, Kaizen, SMED, etc.),

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Excellent communication skills

- Leadership skills

- Have managed, 25 – 30 direct employees.

- Microsoft Suite

- Ability to endure prolonged periods of standing, as well as the ability to work in various positions such as kneeling, crouching, bending, stooping, squatting or lying down to access different parts of a project

- Ability to move efficiently around workstations and sometimes into tight spaces or high platforms

- Ability to reach overhead or extend arms for welding tasks in challenging positions

- Excellent vision (or corrected vision), including depth perception and color recognition, for reading blueprints, monitoring welds, and identifying any flaws or imperfections

- Working in environments that may be hot due to welding processes, sometimes wearing heavy protective gear

- Awareness of surroundings and adherence to safety protocols, including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

- Can lift up to 50 lbs

NOTE: This is a non-DOT position and is considered to be Safety Sensitive.