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3M Sr Supervisor 
United States, Indiana, Hartford City 
951258856

03.12.2024


As a
Senior Supervisoryou will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

  • Creating a world class safety culture.
  • Utilizing the Enterprise Excellence Principles. Leading employees through a culture of respectful behaviors creating teamwork.
  • Determining staffing and prioritization to ensure service to customers.
  • Implementing the LEAN execution model and supporting organizational transition in which all employees are problem solvers.
  • Having a continuous improvement mindset with a heavy focus on safety, productivity, and employee relations.
  • Engaging your team to align to the strategic plan.
  • Available to respond to operational issues seven days/week, twenty-four hours/day.
  • Leading and mentoring a diverse and talented operations team.
  • Championing a strong culture that delivers high EHS performance and is consistently demonstrated as the first priority.
  • Driving consistency and accountability regarding all policies, procedures and expectations throughout the production organization using principle-based leadership.
  • Developing operator skills and engagement by ensuring alignment, diversity and inclusion, Inside Out Coaching, encouraging problem solving and recognition of performance.
  • Collaborating with the Ops Manager, POL, Supply Chain, and Plant Lean Value Stream Manager to understand strategy and execute improvement efforts.
  • Catalyzing continuous improvement in production quality and factory cost through application of 3M’s Lean Manufacturing System, Value Stream Improvement planning, Lean Six Sigma, and Entitlement Thinking.
  • Coordinating operating activities so that products are manufactured on schedule, within quality standards, and shipped on time. Maintaining customer focus through prompt complaint resolution, corrective action, and effective interactions with the business team. Responding to customer-focused value stream feedback and optimizing logistics.
  • Continuously improving daily tier processes, daily accountability boards, standard work, visual controls, material flow, and inventory accuracy. Encourages plantwide participation in continuous improvement suggestion activities.
  • Actively participating in relevant corporate lean programs/initiatives including leveraging the 3M Execution Model and Kaizen execution.
  • Implementing technology such as data automation, digital tier, Dozuki and new processes to improve operational efficiency.
  • Working knowledge of SAP with experience as a Plant Execution (PE) leader.
  • Willingness to be available and at times on-call to support 24/7 continuous operations.


To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)from an accredited institution
  • Five (5) years of supervisory experience in a leadership positionin a private, public, government or military environment.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higherin engineering/business or related field from an accredited institution
  • Lean Six Sigma Training
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
  • Seven (7) years of supervisory experience in a leadership positionin a private, public, government or military environment.
  • Experience in implementing Lean Manufacturing
  • Skills include ability to develop people and build a culture of trust and cooperation
  • Excellent verbal and written skills

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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