The Urethane Supervisor will supervise, train, and coordinate activities of employees, along with ensure that quality and production standards are achieved and maintained.

Brief Description

We are looking for a urethane supervisor for our facility located in Tomball, TX

The Urethane Supervisor will supervise, train, and coordinate activities of employees, along with ensure that quality and production standards are achieved and maintained.

Job Responsibilities

• Retrieves the list of molds to run for the day from File Maker.
• Execute daily production priorities.
• Supervise employees; this includes training, assigning daily work, monitoring employees and continuously following up.
• Follows all plant safety rules.
• Start up and shut down of plant.
• Manage and adjust production personnel scheduled as needed to ensure on-time completion of quality products.
• Investigate root cause of severe process shifts and taking appropriate corrective action to bring process back within specifications.
• Start-up of jobs as required in a timely manner.
• Troubleshoot and evaluate urethane/cast/assembly processes and make the necessary adjustments to ensure prescribed quality and production standards are achieved and maintained.
• Ensure all paperwork is completed, providing timely, detailed information in end of shift note to other supervisors, managers and departments.
• Provide detailed information via shift-to-shift hand off with oncoming Supervisor.
• Enter all production, scrap, and downtime, in File Maker at the end of the shift.
• Manage File Maker so it reflects what tools are staged, completed, and running at all times.
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures (i.e., quality policy manual, associate handbook, lock out/tag out, etc.)
• Comply with the internal required safety procedures.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping in all areas of the facility.
• Forecast and run according to the urethane schedule.
• Preventive and corrective maintenance in the urethane machine.
• Set up the machine with the parameters before each project.

Education and Experience

• Education and ExperienceEmployee must have a valid driver’s license.
• Employee must have completed and passed a Hi-Lo driver’s training class and passed a written test to be administered by the Poly Flex Products Shipping Department.
• Employee must possess general math and literary skills. Some experience with Microsoft Excel and Word software would be helpful but may not be required.
• Urethane/cast/assembly background preferred with at least 3 years in a supervisory capacity.
• Be familiar with RIM machines.
• Completion of all Polyflex Products training requirements for the position.

Knowledge

• Engineering and Technical knowledge – Applying engineering principles, techniques, standards, procedures, and equipment needs to the design and development process.
• Industry knowledge – Automotive returnable and expendable packaging.
• Process knowledge – Cast urethane manufacturing processes.
• Materials knowledge – Urethanes for material selection (Engineering plastics, microcellular foam, and cast urethanes).
• Tooling knowledge – Prototype tooling cast and foam tooling.
• Supervisory knowledge – Design principles, CAD, strategic planning, coordination of design resources, prototype methods, production methods, and leadership techniques.
• Fabrication knowledge – Basic understanding of steel fabrication, fixtures, and assembly processes.