Make Your Mark in a Newly Added Supervisory Position & Help Build a Top-Tier, Night Shift Fabrication Team

If you combine a strong metal fabrication background with proven leadership skills and the ability to coach and develop a team whose members are empowered to excel while being accountable for their work, the role of Fabrication Production Supervisor with Utilimaster offers you some compelling opportunities. You will:

• Play an important role in a fast-growing facility and company -- the Bristol plant has quadrupled the size of our team over the past five years. 
• Make a strong impact as you lead and develop a strong and talented team, taking it to the next level and empowering team members to achieve to their full potential.
• Support exciting changes. Growth has meant evolving processes and adding new machines and equipment as well as growing the team. You'll serve as a strong change manager, adding value in diverse areas from safety to employee development and retention, inventory accuracy, reporting and more.
• Take on a new, highly visible role. As a primary leader on your shift, you can spotlight your talent and potential, and your successes will be noticed. In addition, this facility has a history of developing best practices that are shared with other plants, meaning you could have a wide impact. Your great ideas will be welcomed.
• Take advantage of professional development and on-the-job learning opportunities including enhancing your leadership skills, adding to your fabrication knowledge (we work 90% on aluminum), expanding your Lean experience, and more

Utilimaster moves ahead of the competition when commercial trucks and upfit services require precision, planning, peerless people, and the perfect vehicle. Our vehicles deliver for well-respected global brands in the package delivery, ecommerce, food and beverage, linen and laundry, grocery and pharmaceutical markets. Utilimaster is a top-tier go-to-market brand of The Shyft Group (NASDAQ: SHYF), North America’s leader in specialty vehicle manufacturing, assembly, and upfit for the commercial, retail, and service specialty vehicle markets. The Shyft Group rebranded in 2020 to reflect a new focus on high-growth end markets to help ensure long-term profitable growth.

Pictured: Utilimaster's Velocity F-Series offers big-truck interior space without requiring a commercial driver's license -- thus expanding the pool of potential drivers for fleet operators. You will see these vehicles on the road and be able to tell friends and family, "My team builds those."

To be a good fit for the Fabrication Production Supervisor opportunity, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations Management, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field (preferred), or an equivalent combination of education and experience 
• 7+ years of manufacturing experience, ideally including manufacturing in a heavy fabrication, high volume, high mix environment
• 3-5 years of leadership experience required; leadership experience in fabrication, machining, welding preferred
• Proven ability to supervise, coach, train, develop and motivate others
• Experience and demonstrated success in industrial safety, quality management, customer service, talent management, project management, lean/TPS manufacturing, inventory management, and asset utilization
• Strong technical and intermediate computer skills are required

As Fabrication Production Supervisor, you will manage the night shift Fabrication team, including two team leaders, who will report directly to you, and approximately 30 indirect team members, including machine operators and material handlers, reporting to the team leaders. You will oversee all Fabrication department related activities and be responsible for ensuring that all manufacturing functions are performed in a timely, cost-effective manner consistent with established procedures. 

Pictured: Utilimaster's success depends on the hard work and craftsmanship of our many talented employees.

Career options
We are proactive about succession planning and we support employees' career aspirations. From this position, you could pursue a number of career paths within Utilimaster and The Shyft Group.

Stability and growth
The Shyft Group is financially sound and will continue to be an aggressive market disrupter through strategic acquisitions, relevant product innovations, and aggressive growth models that serve strong and growing end markets. Be assured, our accelerated growth trajectory will create opportunities for strong performers.

Focused transformation
Utilimaster, alongside The Shyft Group’s family of well-respected brands, continues to lead in every segment in which they compete. The Shyft name represents speed, efficiency, agility, and a high-intensity approach, which corresponds with the company’s pivot in market focus and the forward momentum garnered in the work truck, specialty service, and delivery vehicle markets.

Driven to deliver
Ever evolving and advancing, The Shyft Group is driven to make an impactful difference in how effectively goods, people, and services are delivered in today's and tomorrow's marketplace. Through our unmatched industry knowledge, engineering expertise, and manufacturing reach, we continue to deliver job-enhancing, efficiency-driving, ever-reliable products and services made for the road ahead.

Excellent compensation
In addition to competitive compensation, we offer medical, dental, vision, and prescription insurance plans; a health savings account; a flexible savings account; wellness credits; a wellness program; a 401(k) plan with a corporate match; an employee stock purchase program and more.

More About Your Requirements 

• Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Change management experience highly preferred
• An understanding of Lean manufacturing
• Aluminum fabrication experience preferred
• Automotive industry experience is a plus

In addition, success will require the following core competencies and characteristics:

• Leadership attributes and strong interpersonal skills; the ability to influence and motivate others
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivation with an energetic, hands-on approach and can-do attitude
• Flexible, nimble; business agility to manage complexity, change, and ambiguity 
• Able to effectively organize, prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Strong analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills

More About Your Role
Each shift, you will oversee workflow, which is based on work orders and lead times, including hot orders which will require breaking into the line to produce something urgently. You'll coach and motivate the team, ensuring a safety-first culture, driving change -- we have a good deal of new equipment, both manual and automatic (e.g. tool planes, fiber lasers, brake presses, heart shaping, milling and other machines), and new processes to accommodate our strong growth. You will also leverage lean principles to chase waste and drive transparency. As a leader, you'll both motivate and manage, ensuring quality and accountability while also empowering team members to own their roles and excel. Specific duties will be to:

• Plan, organize, and direct production and indirect activities to meet or exceed established production goals in a cost-effective manner
• Forecast staffing needs to meet the demands of the business and staff team accordingly
• Design, develop and implement processes that increase yield and/or improve quality
• Perform workflow analysis and develop methods for the production team
• Coordinate with managers and supervisors to establish production and quality control standards
• Develop, implement, and maintain processes, procedures, and programs to improve safety, productivity, and profitability
• Implement and maintain OSHA and company programs and standards
• Ensure employees and managers have the required safety training and are consistently working in a safe manner; develop and implement safety programs to reduce accidents and injuries
• Work with managers to address organizational needs, equipment utilization and maintenance
• Lead, communicate, and coach to cultivate a motivated associate environment of trust, teamwork, accountability, self-confidence, and business ownership
• Ensure operational supplies are always on hand and available
• Prepare all required reports and correspondence
• Develop, implement, and monitor department budget and manages expenses within approved budget constraints
• Identify, document, and implement opportunities for continuous improvement
• Stay up to date on overall activities of the team, identify problem areas and take corrective actions
• Communicate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Materials, Purchasing, Eales, etc.) to resolve issues
• Work in close proximity with customers, as needed
• Solve complex problems with minimal assistance

This description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

You will supervise the night shift, working Monday through Friday from 6 PM to 2:30 AM, and can expect to work before and after the shift to ensure a strong shift to shift transition. Additionally, you should be flexible to work Saturdays and occasional Sundays, as required. This is an exempt position, although you will earn straight time after 45 hours per work.

As an essential business, we have strong protocols in place protecting our employees and safeguarding their health, across all of our campus operations.

More About Your Success
We understand that there will be a learning curve, and we'll provide training and support. At the same time, we'll look to you to leverage your knowledge and experience to start making an impact from day one. In our fast-paced environment, you will be versatile and flexible, and able to pivot quickly to manage constantly changing priorities effectively. Against this backdrop, you will need to maintain a commitment to excellence and uphold high standards.

You should help promote a culture of safety as well maintain as a continuous improvement mindset. As a change leader, you will need to influence people and help them get on board with improvements. On the whole, you should use a collaborative and motivating approach, but at times you will need to be assertive.

In addition, in order to be an outstanding Fabrication Production Supervisor, you will:

• Set clear expectations, provide support and hold people accountable
• Bring a commitment to excellence and high standards
• Leverage sound judgment with the ability to make timely, and sometimes difficult, decisions
• Combine analytical skills with creativity in solving problems and conflicts
• Work effectively with diverse personalities
• Keep a constant eye out for opportunities to improve processes. and cut costs