Sr. Production Supervisor

Job title: Sr. Production Supervisor

About the Role The Sr. Production Supervisor facilitates and directs daily production activities to ensure compliance with established process control and operating procedures. The role drives safety, quality, delivery, uptime, throughput and cost targets at the Reynosa facility within Corning's Optical Communications segment.

What You'll Do

• Schedule resources and prioritize activities to assure efficient production schedule compliance, including product changeovers, upgrades, experiments, new product runs, training and maintenance activities.
• Provide daily direction to production and maintenance employees, team leaders, technicians and engineers on established procedures and policies.
• Communicate and report production and process performance metrics to production teams, plant operations staff and functional leaders.
• Ensure production targets and delivery requirements are met on a daily and weekly basis.
• Engage with plant teams and functional groups responsible for identifying and implementing process improvements and cost reduction projects.
• Perform performance reviews and develop and reinforce career and talent development plans for salaried/indirect labor and hourly/direct labor employees.
• Ensure the production process operates in compliance with established process control set-points and operating procedures.
• Enforce process discipline and rigorous change control.
• Protect Corning's Intellectual Property (IP).
• Develop, implement and monitor training, qualification, certification and development programs for new and experienced operators, team leaders and engineers.
• Facilitate and monitor all process/equipment changes and experimental plans involving the production process, including process improvement, new product trial runs, equipment/tooling redesign, raw material, batch and/or component changes.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a similar position.
• Frontline supervisory or team leader experience in a plant manufacturing environment, with demonstrated ability to hold people and teams accountable to process control and discipline.
• Experience leading teams and projects to meet significant continuous improvement goals, cost reduction or performance improvement initiatives.
• Experience and understanding of process management systems, process control and discipline techniques.
• Training and understanding of cost accounting and managing for profitability.
• Trained and experienced in fundamentals of safety and health.
• English proficiency.