Manufacturing Supervisor - Components

About the Role:

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Components Manufacturing Supervisor for its Alamo, TN location. This role is responsible to supervise a group of production employees engaged in various manufacturing activities and related functions and schedule the work in the sections to meet on-time delivery objectives with the best utilization of resources.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Driving Safety Culture: Lead and champion a zero-accident culture, ensuring full compliance with all HSE regulations and fostering a safe and environmentally responsible work environment. Ensure a safe and clean work environment by educating and directing personnel on the safe use of all equipment, resources and maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.

• Resource Allocation: Organizes and allocates resources to effectively and efficiently meet line production targets. Responds to resource issues as necessary. Leads capacity planning and resource optimization for the assigned unit or line. Resolves issues by analyzing data; investigating issues; identifying solutions; recommending action

• Production Scheduling and Plan: Ensures that production scheduling and production plan meets the volume requirements agreed in the demand plan and defined inventory service levels.

• Equipment and Facilities: Identifies and recommends technical equipment and facility improvements as necessary. Participate in the cross functional meetings to ensure plant resource utilization is maximized with support from other responsible teams

• Production Execution: Ensures execution of volume, conforming product, and on-time delivery targets for the assigned production lines. Provides manufacturing information by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing production performance records and data, answering questions and responding to requests

• Quality & Operations Improvement: Identifies deficiencies in production area, proposes improvement activities and oversees implementation of actions to improve production performance. Successfully implement and maintain Hitachi Energy's quality strategy, ensuring consistent quality assurance and control across all operations. Understand and achieve operations KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and work to meet goals for Safety, On Time Delivery, Throughput Time, Productivity and Efficiency

• Critical Line Issues: Manages the resolution of critical product or equipment issues together with relevant internal teams. Participate in resolving production, technical and logistics problems and assist to develop and implement measures to improve operations

• People Leadership and Development: Ensures (with Manager support) that the areas of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies.

• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business

• Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of manufacturing and experience; OR associate's degree and 4+ years of manufacturing experience; OR High School Diploma/GED and 8+ years of manufacturing experience
• Broad experience working in industrial manufacturing environment
• Knowledge and experience with lean manufacturing implementation, plus six sigma methodology
• Daily production planning and tier accountability meeting with team.
• Material planning and collaboration with other supporting functional teams.
• Knowledge in MS Office, including Power Point
• Exposure to ERP and Workforce Management software applications i.e. SAP, etc.
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
• Experience with timekeeping systems, i.e. Kronos

• Hitachi Energy is renowned worldwide for electrical power transmission and distribution.
• We offer a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development are abundant.