Production Supervisor II at NWPX Infrastructure in Saginaw, TX

Build Your Future at NWPX
At NWPX Infrastructure, we manufacture welded steel pipe and precast products that form the backbone of America’s water infrastructure. It’s work you can be proud of—and an opportunity to advance your career with a company committed to your professional growth and well-being.
Our brands—Northwest Pipe Company, NWPX Park, and NWPX Geneva—set the standard for safety, quality, innovation, and performance. Guided by our core values of Accountability, Commitment, and Teamwork, our people work collaboratively to deliver reliable products and trusted service to our customers—while building stable, rewarding careers along the way.
For over 50 years, NWPX has been a leader in reliable water infrastructure solutions, and our people are the foundation of our success. Build your future with us and be part of a legacy grounded in water.

WHAT NWPX OFFERS YOU:
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
• On-Demand Pay (Access Your Earned Wages Before Payday)
• Bonus Potential
• Up to $5,000 per year Tuition Reimbursement
• Safety Footwear and Eyewear Voucher (Day 1 of Employment)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunities for Career Advancement
• Values-Driven Culture Committed to Equal Opportunities and Safety

SUMMARY OF JOB PURPOSE:
The Supervisor II – Night Shift is responsible for overseeing all second shift activities in a steel manufacturing and assembly environment. This role provides leadership to production teams, ensures safe and efficient operations, and drives performance in the areas of safety, quality, cost and delivery. The position plans, assigns work, implements policies and procedures, and recommends improvements in production methods, equipment, operating procedures and working conditions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Manages all shift operations to ensure that adequate and efficient human capital, material and information resources are available.
• Responsible for the organization exceeding or meeting the estimated cost, quality and delivery requirements.
• Keeps the Plant Manager and Operations Manager informed about performance issues, plans and progress in meeting goals.
• Assist the Plant manager in directing the activities of the spiral mills, repair welding, hydrostatic testing, end prep and shipping departments.
• Works with quality assurance, production control and maintenance departments to ensure smooth operation of all manufacturing departments.
• Ensures products are in specifications and meet delivery and cost estimates.
• Communicates with other team members to prevent, clarify and correct problems.
• Ensure effective employee relations.
• Provides employee coaching and development
• Assist Plant Manager in employment decisions.
• Resolves employee issues through problem resolution.
• Manages departmental performance measures, including visual controls, and provides regular progress reports to managers.
• Perform Safety Audits and ensure the mill and other machinery operate safely.
• Performs safety meetings.
• Performs accident investigations.
• Ability to lead people and get results through others.
• Ability to think ahead, plan over a 30–90-day time span and prepare action plans to achieve results.
• Conduct performance reviews.
• Set goals and standards for teams.
• Balance and achieve positive results in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost and employee relations.
• Ensure all team members adhere to Quality orientation and attention to detail.
• Provides and assists Plant Manager in problem analysis and resolution.
• Inventory and managing all materials
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Manage multiple priorities.
• Comply with quality policies and ISO audits and procedures.
• Comply with SOX procedures.
• Collaborate with all team members on issues related to the mill.
• Participate in Production decisions concerning product lines.
• Use product specifications and release dates to determine product costs and resource needs.
• Apply lean principles.
• Create, Implement and manage five projects.
• Conduct safety meetings.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Organize and assign priority to maintenance upgrades.
• Perform preventive maintenance as needed.
• Monitor and control maintenance budget.
• Other duties may be assigned.

JOB SCOPE:
• The individual in this position supervises a group of non-exempt production employees and provides them with the resources to do their jobs.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Direct supervision of fabrication, coating and lining, patch and painting, end prep, hydro, materials handling, mill operations, repair welding and pick up welding departments during assigned shift.

INTERPERSONAL CONTACTS:
• This position may interact within all levels of the Northwest Pipe organization. Additionally, this position may have contact with business partners, customers, vendors, visitors and / or government agencies.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Must be a good communicator, negotiator – excellent people skills
• Flexible: Must fit in and work well with all levels of the organization
• Must have a record of accomplishing assignments on time.
• Must be able to manage multiple priorities and multitask.
• Excellent computer skills and knowledge of manufacturing processes.
• Must be able to improve working conditions (safety, quality, productivity, and cost) and increase subordinates’ skills and capabilities.
• Must prepare schedules and plans and discuss them with Plant Manager.
• Must be able to assist Plant Manager in improving the system of production control, standard operating procedure, safety, quality control, and performance management.
• Must be willing to work the evening and night shifts.
• Hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical, and electrical skills are a must.
• The ability to read schematics and plans.
• Ability to ready, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
• High School diploma or GED, 4-5 years of experience in each phase of Production operation including Management of People, Process implementation, Packaging and Logistics.
• Experience in the Pipe, Steel or heavy highway industry or must be willing to learn and be familiar with the above-mentioned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Activity

Over 2/3 of the time:
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Communicating: Expressing or exchanging ideas and information accurately, in written or diagram form.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers such as moving a mouse and typing.

Up to 2/3 of the time:
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing exceed that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium,)
• Stooping: Positions self to access files or lift items off the floor.
• Kneeling/Crouching: Position self to file documents and open lower drawers as well as to lift boxes and other items.
• Standing /Sit: Remaining upright in a stationary position, particularly for sustained periods.
• Walking: Moving about to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Crawling: Moving about to position self
• Reaching: Grabbing things from a distance above or from the side.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raining objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.

Physical Requirements
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise moving objects, including the human body.

Visual Acuity
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.

Vision Requirements:

Up to 2/3 of time, the worker is required to have:
• The worker is required to have peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed at a given point)
• The worker is required to have depth perception (three-dimensional vison, ability to judge distance and spatial relationships.)
• The worker is required to have the ability to adjust visual focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus)

Less than 1/3 of the time the worker is subject to:

• The worker is required to have close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• The worker is required to have distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
• The worker is required to have color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)

Weather Conditions

Up to 2/3 of the time:
• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
• The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles electrical current working on scaffolding and high places exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• None: The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (as in typical office or administrative work)

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• The worker is subject to vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.
• The worker is subject to oil: There is air and /or skin exposed to oils and other cutting fluids.

Noise Levels:

Up to 2/3 of the time:
• Loud noise (examples: metal can be manufacturing department large-moving equipment)
• Very loud noise (example: jack hammer work, front row at rock concert)

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic)

Supervision Received:

General Direction: The incumbent exercises wide latitude in determining objective and approaches to critical assignments. Generally, the incumbent oversees an area of work and typically formulates policy for this area but does not necessarily have final authority for approving policy.

Personal Protective Equipment is required when in the Plant, Yard or Construction Areas:
• Hearing Protection
• Safety Glasses
• Protective Footwear
• Protective Clothing
• Hard Hat

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Except where prohibited by state law, offers of employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug test, and/or physical examination, as determined by the essential functions and physical requirements of the position.
NWPX Infrastructure is committed to equal employment opportunity. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
NWPX Infrastructure reserves the right to close the position, with or without notice, if a qualified candidate is identified prior to the close date.