Description: The Production Supervisor, Composites is responsible for leading the efforts of a production team to build, assemble, and integrate multiple large composite assemblies. This will be a highly influential position with daily responsibility for setting job assignments to meet workflow demands and to drive day by day and hour by hour progress.

As Production Supervisor, Composites, you will be responsible for operational leadership via engagement with the shop floor, supporting design, manufacturing engineering and production. You will be responsible for coordinating a team of composite technicians and overseeing internal and external builds. You will be the pillar for standards amongst the team, setting and inspiring good practices related to process, workmanship, and behavior, ensuring standards are upheld and all deliverables once set are met.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Track output of the team against delivery objectives as well as manage capacity planning and schedule of the team
• Drive and encourage improvement projects and work instruction feedback that decrease touch-time, improve quality, or reduce safety risk
• Drive basic preventive maintenance across the facility

Qualifications:

• High school diploma and 5+ years of experience as a composite technician in Aerospace or similar high performance composite production environment
• 3+ years of team leadership experience in a production environment
• Experience with operations management, including daily scheduling, building, operating, and maintaining complex facility systems
• Standing for long periods of time, climbing up and down ladders, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, and stretching may be required to perform the functions of this position
• Able to lift up to 25lbs. unassisted
• Must be able to climb ladders and be comfortable working in tight spaces.
• Must be able to move repetitively, bend or twist, and use hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Must be able to walk or stand for extended periods – 8 hours min
• Must be able to stoop, bend, crawl, and being able to maneuver in tight spaces

Skills Required

• Accountable for team training and conformance to health and safety policies and procedures, including use of proper PPE
• Contribute to team members training, education, and career development 

Skills Preferred 

• Associate degree or bachelor’s degree in technical discipline.
• Experience preferred in a fast-paced production environment working in a similar sized, high-performance organization.
• Ability to read, understand, and follow manufacturing instructions and drawings
• Knowledge of safety processes and experience with handling hazardous goods and materials
• Proven ability to align capacity to development and production forecasts
• Proven ability to manage resources to meet expected test rate increases
• Experience with implementing techniques of lean manufacturing
• Proficient with computers, the ability to use MS Office, shop floor management software (ERP/MES) and related programs

Swift Engineering Benefits

• Medical Insurance - 90% covered for Employees
• Vision Insurance - 100% covered for Employees
• Dental Insurance - 100% covered for Employees
• Life Insurance - 100% covered by Swift, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• 401k with company match
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.

Working Conditions:

Primarily in a shop environment. Periodic weekend or evening work is expected. 

Swift Engineering Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. 

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. 

Must be “US PERSON” per ITAR requirements.  Swift is an EEOC.

If you’re passionate about engineering, innovation and making a difference, we invite you to join the Swift Engineering family. Together, we are shaping the future of aerospace and creating technologies that will change the world.