Production Supervisor
The Role
- Responsible for the overall management and coordination of factory production operations, leading a production team of approximately 100 employees across Production & Manufacturing, Production Engineering, and Assembly. Ensure stable and reliable day-to-day product delivery performance.
- Continuously drive improvements to the production system, optimize workforce efficiency, quality, and manufacturing costs, and establish a stable, efficient, and sustainable production operation.
Production Operations Management
- Coordinate and oversee the execution of production plans across the entire assembly and manufacturing processes. Allocate manpower and equipment resources effectively to ensure on-time order delivery.
- Supervise the implementation of standardized operating procedures (SOPs) on the shop floor. Manage work-in-process (WIP) flow, production takt time, and capacity loading, while continuously improving production efficiency and line balancing.
- Oversee 5S and visual management across the production floor and maintain a well-organized and disciplined manufacturing environment.
Team Management and Talent Development
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the production team, Production Engineers (PE / Process Support & Continuous Improvement), Team Leaders, and frontline operators.
- Establish differentiated management practices to effectively manage a mixed workforce of local employees and foreign migrant workers, including manpower scheduling, skills training, and performance evaluation.
Production Engineering and Continuous Improvement
- Lead the Production Engineering team to ensure stable equipment and process operation, rapidly resolve production line abnormalities, and reduce downtime caused by material shortages and process defects.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives, including process optimization, yield improvement, work simplification, evaluation of automation opportunities, and waste elimination.
- Drive the implementation of standardized processes, organize defect analysis and follow-up on corrective and improvement actions, and reduce the cost of production defects.
- Collaborate with R&D and Engineering teams to manage new product introduction (NPI) trial production activities and optimize the transition from trial production to mass production.
Quality, Cost, and Safety Management
- Implement process quality controls and promote root-cause improvements to reduce process defects, rework, and repair costs.
- Control production losses, auxiliary material consumption, and labor costs, and develop cost-reduction and improvement initiatives.
- Implement production safety management systems, identify workplace safety risks, and prevent industrial accidents.
Transformation and Change Management
- Proactively take ownership of the company's transformation and change objectives, challenge existing production practices, and drive improvements to production processes and management mechanisms.
- Respond rapidly to uncertainties during the transformation period by adjusting production strategies and addressing shop-floor challenges arising from capacity fluctuations and product iterations.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate communication and collaboration within the department and across other departments, resolve work-related conflicts and issues, and improve overall organizational collaboration and efficiency.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Degrees in Mechanical Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics, Production Operations, or related fields are preferred.
- Min 5 years of production management experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with overall responsibility for a production operation of approximately 100 employees.
- Strong understanding of high-mix, frequent-changeover production environments, with expertise in flexible production scheduling and quick changeover (SMED) improvement methodologies.
- Experience managing assembly-oriented manufacturing plants is preferred.
- Experience in electrical/electronics or mechanical assembly industries.
- Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing initiatives.
- Proven experience managing a Production Engineering team, with solid knowledge of process improvement and production line troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Taiwan labour laws and regulations governing foreign migrant workers. Experience managing mixed teams of local employees and foreign migrant workers is preferred.
- Proficient in shop-floor management tools and methodologies, including 5S, standardized work, Line Balancing, PDCA, 8D, and waste identification.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in process improvement, yield enhancement, and production cost control.
- Understanding of basic production equipment management, with the ability to lead technical teams in resolving process- and equipment-related abnormalities.
- Experience managing new product trial production and mass-production introduction is highly preferred.
