Responsible for supervising extruder personnel by ensuring that the production time is met while inspecting materials to verify conformance with quality standards. Play an active role in the training of new extruder personnel by following the Training Program set out by the company.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
• Maintain production records and ensure extruder personnel complete records accurately.
• Perform inspection and/or audit of finished products on an hourly basis.
• Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and quality of products.
• Monitor and assess employee performance.
• Complete Shift activity reports and submit them to Extrusion Manager daily.
• Relieve team members as needed (breaks, lunches, absent team member, vacation)
• Maintain housekeeping at a high level in Extrusion area, through the involvement of all extruder employees.
• Initiate, recommend, investigate, troubleshoot and provide solutions and actions to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformities relating to products, processes and quality systems.
• Review production schedules, work orders, and other records/reports to determine production requirement and to evaluate current production workload.
• Develop and maintain cost-effective processes to increase productivity and employee satisfaction, while reducing waste.
• Work closely with the Maintenance department to ensure equipment maintenance is scheduled at the most opportune times, to minimize downtime and maximize production output.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Manage and/or adjust work procedures to meet production requirements.
• Develop methods to utilize personnel and resources in the best possible ways.
• Develop, support and motivate production employees in applying our values.
• Interpret and enforce company policies, safety regulations and operating procedures.
• Analyze and resolve work problems and assist staff in solving problems.
• Maintain positive, respectful and open communication with team members.