Supervisor, Finished Goods
- Vaughan, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identify any potential hazards and ensure all necessary precautions are undertaken.
- Ensure all team members are trained and performing in a safe and efficient manner using the appropriate PPE when applicable.
- Ensure proper protocols are followed to avoid risks of cross contamination.
- Ensure accident/incident investigations are carried out in a timely manner and documented to determine root causes, corrective actions and following-up to ensure completion.
- Promote proactive identification and elimination of workplace hazards.
- Correct unsafe acts or conditions, ensuring health & safety policies are followed.
- Ensure the areas are neat and tidy, with a place for everything and everything in its place.
- Regularly audit the work and storage areas to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
- Enforce the compliance of 5S standards and identifies improvement opportunities.
- Ensure that all team members are treated in an equal and fair manner, abiding by the company Policies & Standards of Conduct.
- Ensure Finished Goods is adequately staffed to meet business requirements optimizing productivity and asset utilization.
- Manage vacation schedules.
- Maintain daily attendance and leave requests.
- Identify vacancies to Manager, Finished Goods to recruit and hire as required.
- Participate in the hiring process.
- Ensure all Team Members have clear expectations and are properly trained, identifying training opportunities and managing the training plan.
- Ensure staff are operating according to the general SOPs and/or Standardized Work and performing their duties at the expected quality levels and pace.
- Administer the Performance Evaluation process including setting objectives and expectations, rating performance, doing Performance Reviews and submitting wage increase recommendations.
- Manage the Performance Improvement Program including:
- Dealing with issues and providing timely feedback.
- Coaching and counseling Team Members as appropriate.
- Maintaining proper notes and documentation of issues and interactions.
- Escalating issues to Manager, Finished Goods and providing proper information to HR.
- Understand Finished Goods safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance goals and how they contribute to enabling Operations objectives to be met.
- Develop, modify, and manage procedures directly relating to work performed in Finished Goods.
- Supervise the daily activities of staff by scheduling their work and monitoring timelines to meet daily targets achieve desired goals.
- Monitor pace of work, backlogs, and Work-In-Process buffers to ensure target turnaround times are met or exceeded.
- Be aware of any significant equipment, material or information flow issues arising and ensure corrective action plans are initiated and executed.
- Monitor and report relevant key indicators and develop Action Plans to close gaps.
- Escalate any potential issues that could negatively impact Finished Goods performance to the Manager, Finished Goods.
- Communicate delays to appropriate stakeholders such as Customer Service or Synthesis Labs.
- Track internal and externally generated non-conformances and establish Correction Actions to contain problems and Preventative Actions to prevent reoccurrence.
- Coordinate the standardized work in weighing/picking areas to optimize productivity and assign work amongst the team members.
- Train team members on SOPs and/or Standardized Work, identify training opportunities and manage training plan.
- Ensure inventory in the system is being updated in a timely manner.
- Identify improvement opportunities and participate in establishing the performance metrics and the CI program for Finished Goods.
- Champion the CI program to the Team.
- Facilitate implementation of changes in Finished Goods.
- Sponsor, lead, facilitate or participate in specific CI projects and establishment of Standardized Work.
- Sponsor, lead, facilitate or participate in Kaizens.
- Promote a continuous improvement culture.
- 3-5 years' experience working in the chemical industry or lab environment.
- Experience working with hazardous or toxic compounds.
- Customer (internal stakeholder) focused.
- Ability to work with a team and achieve results in a team environment.
- Self-starter, task oriented with ability to drive and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- PASSION
- CURIOSITY
- INTEGRITY
- BRILLIANCE
- RESPECT