Supervisor - Hot Rolling Mill

Division: BENTELER Steel/Tube 
Functional Area: Production 
Career Level: Professional 
Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time 
Weekly Working Hours: 40,00 
Required Languages: English 
Requisition ID: 46559 

At BENTELER, we make it possible. From promoting individual talents to international career prospects, or from generous opportunities for designing your career to personal development opportunities—at BENTELER, we always have answers to your questions about the future, based entirely on your personal needs. Diverse options that makes sure you can be anything and everything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

Job Responsibilities

Ensure that your assigned crew:

• Sets up the production equipment and supplies before executing job orders.                                                        
• Operates equipment safely and effectively for production processing. Crew members should be adequately equipped with PPE and other safety tools/training to complete the assigned work.
• Ensures that equipment is maintained in a good and safe working condition.
• Inspects equipment to identify any required replacements, malfunctions, and repairs.
• Monitors the process outcome to ensure production capacity, quality, and timeliness.
• Supports operators/tool preps in their assigned responsibilities.
• Evaluates equipment performance and recommends improvements.
• Operates, if needed, trucks, cranes, and other industrial vehicles to transfer goods and/or equipment.
• Recommends process improvements to enhance operational efficiency and safety.
• Ensures crew contributes to waste management programs and monitors environmental precautions and responds immediately if required (spills, etc.).
• Identifies and reports unsafe operations to crew members and HRM Manager immediately.  Stops work if needed.
• Inspects the work area and ensures it is clean, safe, and organized; Participate in plant 5S and Lean manufacturing programs as well as all continuous improvement activities.
• Ensures that crop buckets are removed and dumped in a safe, timely manner before the max weight has been reached.
• Responsible for ensuring all crew members assigned are trained in all tasks and evaluates individual members on performance via timely, objective reviews.

General Qualifications:

• Supports enforcement of all Facility Safety Programs, particularly LOTO and fall prevention programs. Responsible for participating in safety activities to meet or exceed organizational goals and expectations.
• Understanding of automated manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work rotating shifts and any schedule to fulfill facility/customer needs.
• Excellent working of area SOPs and work instructions.

Quality:

• Excellent knowledge of quality requirements and specifications.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify quality nonconformance’s and notifies HRM Manager of issues.
• Understands and applies customer specifications to the operation of the machine to assure finished goods comply with customer requirements. Perform in-process quality inspections and/or tests, identifying defects, and approving that quality meets customer specifications.

Production:

• Oversees and operates the Hot rolling mill area according to SOP and work instructions.
• Monitors and regulates production parameters to ensure that controlled processes are kept at peak efficiency.
• Monitors and regulates production parameters to ensure that product is kept within specifications.
• Writes in a daily logbook quality control, production and/or maintenance issue information and communications related to the operation and production of the crew/machine(s) for incoming shift relief supervisor.
• Reads and comprehends production schedule, work orders, manuals, and performance specifications, to establish proper operation of the equipment.

Job Requirements

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent certification required.
• AA/AS or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Medium to advanced understanding of a continuous HRM Line Process, or equivalent manufacturing/production related experience.
• Understanding of data recording/acquisition systems such as IBA is preferred.
• Strong safety awareness and experience.
• Demonstrated capability of providing results through people, technology, and process.
• Basic SAP & general computer knowledge is required.
• Basic understanding of automated manufacturing processes.
• Be able to communicate and motivate coherently- both verbally and via written media.
• Understand principles of manufacturing.
• Able to work rotating shifts and extended hours on occasion when required.

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The BENTELER Group always has the answer. That’s because in each of our divisions and at every one of our sites, you can benefit from the size and diversity of an international corporation with more than 20,000 employees at around 90 locations worldwide.

The same is true in our BENTELER Steel/Tube division. Here, we develop and produce custom, precision pipes for customers from energy production, automotive engineering, and other industrial sectors. In this division, we enable the unerring application of our products, from the concept up to process integration and thus to integration into our customers’ value chains. Along with that, our diverse fields of application make sure you can be and become anything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!