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Job Summary

Plans, organizes, and leads a plant shift. Responsible for detailing schedules, enforcing safety, ensuring quality, and monitoring production requirements.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

Assign work to production operations utilizing daily production schedules, work orders and verbal instructions.
Coordinate the production, warehousing, and material transfer of product and supplies.
Check work in process and inventory labels to ensure proper product identification and adherence to production quantity and quality levels.
Diagnose quality and production problems and take corrective action.
Assist others with machine maintenance, repairs, and set-up operations.
Train new employees in all areas of the plant.
Compile machine and shift production reports related to tonnage, product type, and inventory levels.
Report performance or discipline problems to supervisor.
Report accidents that occur to appropriate personnel, and write up reports documenting the occurrence.

Additional Responsibilities

Meet with maintenance to optimize preventative maintenance downtimes in accordance with production schedules.
Perform inventory reconciliation to validate that production is equal to consumption.

Safety

Report all incidents and accidents immediately.
Follow all safety rules and requirements of work area.
Participate openly in all safety meetings and investigations.
Report and correct all unsafe conditions immediately.
Participate in Safety In Action System activities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Gerdau believes in equal employment opportunity related to all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of Gerdau that there will be no discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.

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