Production Superintendent
Auburn Hills, MI, US, 48326
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Job Description
PRODUCTION SUPERINTENDENT
AUBURN HILLS, MI
As a member of the operations team, the Production Superintendent will be responsible for providing leadership and direction to ensure that our production, quality, and efficiency goals are met. Drive high performance work teams by ensuring our team leaders as well as our teams are well trained and coached.
The Role:
- Your work will include, but not be limited to:
- Improve Quality performance through decreased scrap and defects
- Daily review and identification of quality, efficiency, and scrap issues.
- Lead review with Coaches to develop solutions or preventative measures.
- Coordinate with Quality department to investigate, identify and implement corrective actions with the production team.
- Lead to continuously improve quality metrics and targets.
- Drive efficiency
- Work with Coaches and Team Leaders to drive efficiency by utilizing the production system and driving back issues to the team.
- Ensure that operators are following SWI’s and lead team to continuously find SWI improvements.
- Work with teams to improve station layouts, identify 8 waste opportunities, poke yokes, and implement 5s methodology into work areas.
- Lead Coaches and Team Leaders to continuously improve production metrics and targets.
- Drive Materials and Shipping Efficiency
- Ensure that proper floats and Finished Goods Inventories are kept at the correct levels
- Drive proper material flow by making sure that FIFO is used.
- Drive high performance work team culture through training, support and empowerment
- Train all team members on Lean/Kaizen principles to help support a CI Culture and enable teams to identify and address “just do it” opportunities and resolve workplace issues independently.
- Drive teams to actively pursue Team Member roles and tasks outside of workstation assembly.
- Support and lead team Kaizen activities.
- Always manage and ensure effective cross-training levels to 100% job rotations within teams.
- Lead and develop Team Leaders to ensure High Performance Work Teams are effectively led
- Conduct or recommend continuous learning for Team Leaders.
- Conduct training sessions for plant staff and production team.
- Select and place Team Leaders within retention goals.
- Develop Team Leaders to be recognized as currently promotable successors to Coach roles
- Drive Automated Manufacturing Performance
- Ensure operators and Team Leaders are properly trained on automated equipment operation, safety protocols, troubleshooting, and escalation procedures.
- Drive error-proofing (Poka-Yoke), automation enhancements, and digital manufacturing initiatives to improve quality, productivity, and safety.
Your Qualifications
- 3-5 years production/plant management experience in a manufacturing/union environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrate ability in maintaining positive employment relations
- Maintain a high level of integrity
- Excellent organizational and computer skills
- Bachelor’s degree
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in a JIT Automotive plant
- Previous experience leading a team in a Automotive Seating plant
- Experience working with robotic assembly systems, PLC-controlled equipment, automated material handling systems, and vision inspection technologies.
- Knowledge of OEE, Industry 4.0 technologies, MES systems, and automated production monitoring tools.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Lear Corporation is committed to fair, merit‑based employment practices and equal opportunity.
We provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law. For assistance during the application process, contact your recruiter directly.
Applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the position is located. Unsolicited resumes from search firms, employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and will become the property of Lear Corporation.
Nearest Major Market: Detroit