Coater shift supervisor

Koch Industries, Inc

Your Job
The Coater Shift Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the coating department during assigned shifts. This includes supervising production crews, ensuring safety compliance, maintaining product quality, and meeting production targets. The role requires strong leadership, technical knowledge of coating processes, and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize operations.
Our Team
A skilled and collaborative group responsible for operating and monitoring the coating line. The team ensures product quality, safety compliance, and smooth shift-to-shift transitions to meet production goals efficiently.
What You Will Do
• Proactively managing safety by identifying and eliminating hazards, putting the right people in the right places, and ensuring that standard procedures are being followed
• Be comfortable enough to be able to look at QC data and verify product is being produced within spec.
• Help root cause production / equipment issues by thoroughly investigating problems and communicating findings to appropriate process support members
• Understand personnel requirements for the various coatings.
• Anticipate and train to future needs.
• Understand how to drive efficiency of line minimize gapping, maximize bed utilization, line speeds affecting throughput, labor usage, yield, etc
• planning to jib boom / sling / manage racks as necessary
• Assist in identifying / developing best practices for the production team
• Minimize losses, maximize yields.
• Perform general administrative duties files, performance summaries, reviews, corrective actions, etc.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Ability and drive to dig past the surface of an issue to its root cause
• Ability to plan ahead and foresee potential issues before they come to fruition
• Possess strong communication skills, communicating effectively across multiple levels (production to management, including engineers)
• Ability to learn new processes / applications quickly
• Ability to learn and understand technical and mechanical aspects of the process
• Ability to manage and advance a production team and/or process (not content maintaining)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, working effectively under pressure and with a full plate
• Ability to make sound decisions, comfortable being in a decision making role, responsible for high level / critical decisions
What Will Put You Ahead
• BA in related field engineering / chemist