The posting
Company Description
Joining Senior Flexonics means not only a rewarding career with a tight-knit and collaborative team, but you will also enjoy a competitive compensation package that includes a market-led base salary, commission plan, and a comprehensive benefits package along with wellness benefits, employee recognition program, matching 401k plan, paid vacation, flexible hours, employee wellness activities, tuition reimbursement, and community involvement initiatives.
Job Description
Summary
The Operations Supervisor is responsible for the operational organization and performance of assigned department(s). This role works closely with the Operations Manager to deliver Senior’s goals and objectives, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, and workforce effectiveness. The supervisor provides leadership to area leads and supports the union workforce through coaching, mentoring, and consistent communication.
Key Result Areas & Responsibilities
- Lead and supervise the department’s operational team, including oversight of employees and area leads.
- Manage the department seating chart aligned with the production plan.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to area leads, ensuring effective governance of the union workforce.
- Communicate production support requirements through GEMBA walks and cross-functional meetings with engineering, quality, and safety teams.
- Facilitate weekly production meetings with area leads and communicate required actions to engineering, maintenance, quality, and safety support groups.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and standards for 5S, safe work practices, quality workmanship, and Senior Flexonics work rules.
- Lead workshop events and Kaizen activities and maintain ownership of the lean audit process, including reporting metrics and communicating results.
- Support Senior’s long-term strategy deployment initiatives as they relate to departmental improvements.
- Lead activities to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Record all production for the work shift into the MRP system.
- Track and report daily KPI metrics (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Performance).
- Train new personnel in workstation operation and develop cross‑training plans.
- Build strong relationships with support teams to drive process improvements.
- Engage cross-functional teams to improve uptime and optimize weekly KPIs.
- Coordinate with maintenance, quality, safety, and engineering groups to resolve issues and support improvement initiatives.
Additional Responsibilities
- Manage improvement initiatives at defined cadence and frequency.
- Support cross-functional collaboration to improve equipment uptime and departmental KPIs.
Qualifications
Education
- Associate degree preferred (not required)
Certifications
- No specific certifications required (none listed in workbook)
Experience
- Minimum 5 years in operations supervision
- Minimum 3 years in lean systems and supervisory rolesSkills, Knowledge & Abilities Technical Skills
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Strong computer skills
- Effective communication across production, engineering, quality, and safety teamsCore Competencies
- Functional and business communication
- Leadership and team development
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Safety and standard work compliance
- Lean systems knowledge (including workshop/Kaizen leadership)Key Relationships
- Operations Manager
- Quality and Manufacturing Engineers
- Maintenance Team
- Training and Production Reporting Personnel
Additional Information
Additional Information
The expected salary range for this position is $65-90K per year. Final compensation will be based on experience, qualifications, and other relevant factors.
In addition to base pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, which may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, Dependent Care FS, HSA or FSA, 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off (vacation, PTO, and holidays), short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, employee assistance program (EAP), Identity Theft Protection, ARAG. Benefits eligibility and details may vary based on position, employment status, and location.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This position does not offer H-1B visa sponsorship.
Trade Compliance Statement Access to our facilities is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to U.S. Persons (U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, U.S. Nationals, U.S. refugees, asylees, or temporary residents under amnesty provisions ), and to properly licensed foreign persons. Applicants receiving a conditional offer of employment will be required to provide information to determine whether they are subject to these regulations and, if so, to assess their country of chargeability for export control purposes. Additionally, potential employee names will be screened against the Consolidated Screening List (maintained by the United States government) to determine eligibility to receive controlled technical data.
To ensure there is no unexpected delay to your start date with our Company and due to the potential need to obtain an export license, we would like to promptly assess whether such a license is needed to access our facility and/or systems. Such licenses can take several weeks/months to obtain from the U.S. Government. Our Trade Compliance department may reach out to you with a Licensing Assessment form, which we request you kindly complete and return as soon as possible.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. EOE M/F/D/V/VEVRAA Federal Contractor
