AAF International offers the most comprehensive clean air solutions available across the globe. Selling under the American Air Filter® and the AAF International® brand names, AAF International has been an industry pioneer since 1921 and has since grown to operations in over 22 countries with over 3000 employees. Our products are the industry benchmarks for quality and performance, and delivers clean air solutions in residential, commercial and industrial air pollution control, gas containment removal, power generation, and other stringent clean room environments.
We are a member of the Daikin Group, the world's largest air conditioning and clean air solutions provider with over $15 Billion in sales and 56,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1924, Daikin has grown into a diversified industrial manufacturing company offering solutions in clean, air, air conditioning, refrigeration, chemicals, oil hydraulics, defense systems and electronics. AAF and Daikin are powered by our investment in people, products, and our processes.
Our culture of continuous improvement, safety, and world class operations is powered by our people centered management philosophy. This philosophy is built around mutual selection: that while AAF seeks top talent people to join and deliver on our team, we also want each team member to receive job satisfaction, growth & development, and continued happiness in being a long term member of the AAF family. This is fueled by our belief in treating our people, our supply partners, our customers and our environment with the trust and respect we each require, and our passion to give back to our community for our success.
Read more about our philosophy at:
www.daikin.com/about/corporate/philosophy/index.html
AAF International is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Purpose of Position
Supervises, delegates work assignments, and motivates hourly production employees to ensure employee safety, product quality and meet production goals.
Key Responsilbilites:
1. Supervises hourly employees to maintain a high level of productivity while observing all safety rules and precautions.
2. Monitors production activities to eliminate delays and ensure adherence to production and shipping schedules.
3. Ensure efficient utilization of equipment and facilities.
4. Ensure all products coming off of the assembly line are being made to exact specifications, inspecting for accuracy and signing off on the work order.
5. Keep production moving throughout the entire day by coordinating resources. This includes working with material handlers and shipping/receiving to make sure each machine has the raw material and associated components to make their products
6. Assess workflows and identify and fix efficiency breakdowns. This requires building sequential systems and bringing focus and closure to the production process.
7. Motivate the staff, offer constructive criticism, and praise progress.
8. Work with maintenance to resolve machine issues and brainstorm re-builds and re-designs.
9. Summarize the end of day production results and distribute to owners.
10. Maintains daily production and payroll records.
11. Trains hourly employees on job functions and the operation of various machines.
12. Coordinates production schedules with other shifts to ensure meeting production goals and deadlines.
13. Maintains cleanliness of the work area, ensures proper handling of tools and equipment, and correct operation of machinery to provide a safe working environment.
14. Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
15. Conduct Kaizen events to streamline processes and promote continuous improvement
Knowledge/Expreience:
Minimum 5 + years in production supervision role, notably within a manufacturing plant
Leadership and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to teach and coach individuals from diverse backgrounds with varying language and technical skills.
Experience leading production teams and using production management tools preferred
Experience with Lean Manufacturing
Knowledge on MRP (specifically SAP) preferred
Four Year College Degree preferred
APICS Certification (CPIM,CSCP) preferred
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demand:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Distance vision, Peripheral vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
