Overview

Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) is a leading, technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops, produces, and markets a broad range of mineral and mineral-based products, related systems and services. MTI serves a wide range of consumer and industrial markets, including household and personal care, paper, foundry, steel, construction and environmental solutions around the world. The company reported global sales of $2.1 billion in 2022.

MTI focuses on two major segments – Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions. 

Our Consumer & Specialities segment offers technologically enhanced products to consumer-driven end markets plus specialty additives that become functional components in a variety of consumer and industrial goods. This segment includes our Household & Personal Care and Specialty Additives product lines. The Household & Personal Care product line provides mineral-to-market products that serve consumer-oriented end markets including Pet Care, Personal Care, Fabric Care, Edible Oil, and Renewable Fuel Purification. Our Specialty Additives product line provides mineral-based technologies serving Paper, Packaging, Sealants & Adhesives, Paint & Coatings, Ceramics, Plastics, Food & Pharmaceutical markets.

Our Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced process technologies and solutions that are designed to improve our customers’ manufacturing processes and projects. This segment includes our High-Temperature Technologies and Environmental & Infrastructure product lines. Our High-Temperature Technologies product line offers specially-formulated blends and technologies primarily for Foundry and Steelmaking industries. Our Environmental & Infrastructure product line provides waterproofing, water purification, remediation and other fluid management technologies for critical projects for Remediation, Water Purification, and Infrastructure.

MTI provides a business environment and promotes a culture that encourages all employees to contribute to our success. We have long been committed to the recruitment and advancement of the most talented and qualified people. We recognize that MTI’s ability to provide the highest caliber of products and services is enhanced by a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities and countries in which we work.

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay, commensurate with experience
• Health/Dental/Vision plans
• 401k company match
• Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability & Long-Term Disability
• Educational Assistance
• Employee Assistance Plan

Position: Production Supervisor

Location: USA | Dyersburg, Tennessee

Compensation: $27/hr - $30/hr

Critical features of this job are described under the headings that follow. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary (essential) duty satisfactorily.

Responsibilities

• This is considered a safety sensitive position, therefore will be subject to random drug testing as required. 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Actively promote safe work, good housekeeping and hygiene practices within the context of current or future legislation and Normerica Safety program. Attends all monthly group safety talks and alerts the Company of any safety hazard or housekeeping/hygiene
• Attends daily Production meeting and ensures that the plant is following schedules and implements corrective action to prevent schedule deviation to meet shipping due
• Coordinate line packaging. Completes necessary production/labor reports
• Report out TPHW (Tons Per Hours Worked) from previous day’s shift, and reasons for achieving/not achieving the target.
• Controls shift departmental headcounts within +/- 5% of Flex Budget
• Ensures proper training and job instruction of employees with respect to expected standards of work performance, quality, hygiene, and job
• Ensures fair treatment of employees via established legislation and Company
• Development of new methods, policies, systems and procedures that ensures efficient and effective operation pertaining to all operations of the
• Supervises and encourages the participation of all plant personnel in attaining Cost Reduction goals. Actively communicates and promotes
• Attend to duties and projects as assigned by Manager or his/her
• The Production Supervisor is responsible to insure the efficient operation of the production on the
• Plans, directs and co-ordinates production schedules to meet order due dates consistent with established policies, regulations, standards of efficiency, employee relations, quality and safety.
• Responsible for managing all production resources on the shift to ensure that there is efficient production of finished
• Assigns work to insure that scheduled requirements are met, all required procedures are followed, and all products are shipped on time.
• Perform “Job Observation” once per day at minimum, to ensure safe work environment is maintained.
• Ensures that all established standards for labor, material utilization and product quality are
• Enforce & actively promote safe work & good housekeeping practices within the context of current or future legislation and Safety program by employing daily observation and monthly group safety talks to educate employees on an ongoing
• Attends daily Production meeting & ensures that the shift is following schedules & implements corrective action to prevent schedule deviation to meet shipping due
• Completes necessary production/labor reports
• Supervises and participates in 5S activities with team members each day.
• Escalate to management team members, when downtime event occurs and lasts more than one hour. Text or phone call is acceptable.
• Ensures proper training & job instruction of employees with respect to expected standards of work performance, quality and job
• Ensures fair treatment of employees consistent with the Employment Standards Act, the Human Rights Code & employee relation
• Develops & implements new methods, systems, policies & procedures to ensure efficient & effective operation of all shift manufacturing
• Supervise & encourage the participation of the shift manufacturing personnel in attaining Cost Reduction Actively communicate and promote involvement.
• Communication & co-ordination with all departments with regards to all manufacturing issues, especially with Scheduling & Shipping dealing with reporting current & future Customer schedules, available capacity and projected completion dates for orders. Communicates all production issues to Manufacturing
• Recommends hiring promotion, demotion, termination & salary
• Conducts Performance Evaluation of employees reporting into this function. Applies corrective discipline as required. Ensures that all written documentation complies with company policies &
• Performs other duties as

OE/Lean

• Acts as resource and champion for department continuous improvement activities

Qualifications

Qualifications/Requirements

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred; HS Diploma required.
• 4+ years Production experience in a supervisor or lead role in a Manufacturing environment

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal
• Strong customer service and analytical problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn and develop quickly through personal
• Organized, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Full understanding of MS Office

Working Conditions:

• Warehouse/manufacturing environment

Equal Opportunity Employer | mineralstech.com

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