Superintendent, Body in White (VCK)

Who will you report to?
Reports to: Body in White Shop manager
Cooperation sectors: Maintenance, Logistics, Shop engineering, ME, Paint shop, Final Assembly, People Experience, Quality,
 

Responsibility

• Responsible to achieve the shop performance targets during the shift (Safety, Volume, Quality, etc)
• Coach people and support/provide Supervisors and teams with the prerequisites required to achieve priorities and targets.
• Full production system utilization and optimization within area of responsibility
• Priority management based on Real Time Management
• Responsible link to management
• Plans department activities, implements company initiatives, handles people management and escalated people issues within his/her area.
• Leads and coordinates resources to cover absenteeism outside SV scope.
• Coach, trains and develops people.
• Setting business targets for performance in line with company’s vision and mission.
• Coach, support and challenge the Supervisor in the short- and long-term business.
• Responsibility for Business targets and results within his/her responsibility area.
• Secure that Supervisors and teams deliver the required activities to ensure that products and services are delivered on time according to described standards.
• Responsibility to compare / analyze Time managements between the teams within his/her area.
• Give training (e.g. during Gemba, in classroom …) and use coaching approach towards teams and individuals.
• Continuously develop the competence of the team through training, on-the-job coaching and 1 to 1 development.  You are the main coach / trainer for the supervisor, and you provide timely feedback on improvement areas to the supervisor, team and team members.
• Continually feedback (Lessons learned) to all concerned areas (e.g. ME process)
• Undertake all relevant personnel management including resource planning short and long term, holiday planning, sickness management and individual performance management.
• Ensure the usage of the correct amount of resources (material, machines and personnel).
• To act, communicate and role model the Volvo Car Group values and company philosophy in line with M&L's principles and behaviors.
• Planning, implementation and audit team development of VCMS in your teams in alignment with the overall plant Master Plan.
• Provide the right environment for your teams to work together effectively with good communication and co-operation both with each other and with relevant support functions.  Ensure that all the appropriate conditions and prerequisites are in place.
• Ensure that both workload and resources are organized appropriately in order to
• meet the business objectives in the short, medium and long term.
• Secure that the relevant laws, regulations and procedures are followed by all.
• Develop, maintain and improve standards within your area to remove variability and thus create stability for you and your team, providing greater opportunity for your team to reach targets.
• Consistently use the visualization standards in order to provide transparency on performance and challenges in your area.
• Ensure your teams understand their responsibility toward the customer and that everybody feels accountable to deliver to their customer on time and to quality.
• Encourage your team to highlight problems, deviations, opportunities to improve trough potential solutions.
• Ensure you and your team own the progress of the actions required to resolve the issue and/or create improvements.
• Provide your team the necessary cross functional support to drive corrective or improvement actions by ensuring the required competences are made available within your team.
• Create together with your team an image of how a Lean process should look like.
• Ensure that your team understand the requirements of your process to meet the demands of the factory and the customer.
• Work proactively across the value stream with a cross functional team in order to understand the impact of your area in the overall flow.  Continually focusing on reducing bottlenecks, minimizing losses in order to maintain a high level of stability, flow and cost control.
• Provide a safe and open learning environment to identify areas of improvement in all aspects of the business.
• Actively spread good working practices to others and use good practices shared with you.

What you bring?

• Bachelor’s degree or above, on-site management experience is necessary.
• Several years of management in highly automated OEMs or suppliers, body in white experience is a plus.
• Excellent in Slovak and English listening, speaking, written skills, and presentation
• Manning and flexible manning systems
• Process observation and confirmation
• 5S, Standardization Work, ANDON
• Real-Time Management
• Problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset and methods
• Ability to lead cross-functional kaizen activities 
• Leadership experience
• Coaching skills
• Performance Management (maximizing engagement, motivation and productivity)
• Influencing skills (communications & rhetoric)