Production Shift Supervisor

Your Job

Guardian Glass is seeking you to become our next Production Shift Supervisor at our Float Glass Facility in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

As a Production Supervisor, you are responsible for developing your team into a high performing unit while advancing our vision and culture. You will do this by recognizing the unique skillset of your team members and aligning them in a way that creates personal fulfillment and value for the company.

The Production Supervisor is also responsible for supervising and coordinating production efforts that result in sustained improvement in all associated work processes including Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), compliance, reliability, quality, production, and costs.

If you are looking to challenge yourself and your team in a dynamic manufacturing environment, Guardian is the place for you!

This role works a rotating shift pattern

Our Team

You will join a team of department managers, supervisors and process engineers that collaborate on a daily basis strategizing our priorities for the day.

The Production Supervisors encourage a one team on the field mentality, paying particular attention to their direct reports and general attention the workforce. This unified but dynamic team encourage the challenge process, open and honest communication and expects leadership support and feedback.

You will be part of the Float Line Team, working closely with the Operations and Engineering teams. Our division is dedicated to maintaining high standards of production efficiency and quality while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment

What You Will Do

• Leading an operational team (8-10 employees) in a safe and efficient manner and to take ownership vision advancement, safety, quality, and productivity.
• Driving safety excellence through promoting employee involvement, ownership, and accountability to proactively eliminate hazards. Providing safety training to crew members and deliver training materials in a meaningful approach.
• Facilitating team development and communication, employee skill development, problem-solving and resolution, building employee commitment and ownership and holding employees accountable.
• Monitoring product quality and provide direction to crew members to maximize efficiency.
• Promoting employee involvement, providing coaching, feedback and direction as required.
• Assisting with troubleshooting production issues.
• Completing data entry responsibilities and generate reports in a timely and efficient manner
• Conduct annual performance reviews for direct reports and ensuring the application of the individual performance development cycle .
• Understand the cost of decisions and impact to departments and other processes
• Meet or exceed KPI goals by demonstrating success in measuring and improving processes
• Coordinate with other departments and managers to work as a team
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in an operations environment.
• Technical & Mechanical aptitude to learn a manufacturing process. Includes being logically minded and process orientated.
• Experience in adapting to transformation and bringing change to the people, process, and company that will create the greatest value.
• Experience in effectively articulating verbal and written messages, information, and ideas to a diverse group of people, leading to shared understanding.
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Demonstrated managerial skills.
• Experience in leading or participating in continuous improvement projects.
  
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Guardian Glass is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of float, value-added and fabricated glass products and solutions. We produce high-performance glass for architectural, residential, interior, transportation and technical glass applications. You’ll find our glass in homes, offices and cars and in some of the world’s most iconic projects.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.