Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
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Prioritize and plan daily workflow based upon business requirements and goals set.
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Hire and train new Production employees, ensuring the orientation and proper training of all new workers by demonstrating and explaining operating techniques to improve production and maintain workflow.
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Inspect for quality and cleanliness, ensures those items not meeting quality standards are sent for stain treatment, discarding and others.
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Ensure adequate performance management of all employees including affirmations, coaching, counseling, discipline, and terminations as required in a timely manner, resolve any Production personnel problems with the support of Human Resources.
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Ensure communication and timing is coordinated between production, weighmasters, and dispatchers; communicate delays to Transportation and Service teams immediately.
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Communicate any equipment problems to technicians in a timely manner and follow through to ensure those problems have been addressed and resolved.
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On occasion, assists workers and performs any of the operations supervised to maintain the production goals.
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Develop schedules and workflow to control overtime, manage labor costs and meet productivity KPIs and customer expectations with sales forecasts, plant and employee capacity and new business opportunities.
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Preventing accidents is to be the highest priority.
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Ensure strict compliance with all safety standards and OSHA regulations with regards to training, the wearing of PPE, etc. including verifying sufficient inventory.
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Gain full proficiency in a specific area of discipline and broad range of activities related to the job.
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Oversee, monitor, and coordinate production team activities, giving importance to individual member's and overall team's achievement of established goals.
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Inform Manager of any problematic situations related to laundry operations including equipment.
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Maintain sufficient inventory of supplies, goods and products required to complete the scheduled work assignments effectively and efficiently.
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Maintain daily activity and productivity reports using designated systems including productivity standards and hourly reports.
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Contribute to incident reports for any issues that affect safety, productivity or quality and submits to Manager on duty.
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Ensure all equipment is functioning properly and that all safety procedures are followed.
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Responsible for maintaining production area clean including pre- and post-shift.
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Perform other duties as required.