Production Supervisor

RMA stands for Return Material Authorization; it is a financial and work order tracking used to determine a returned item’s origination. It is often used in a transaction where a customer returns goods to the manufacturer for replacement or repair purpose.

To keep the motivation of people high and to keep the atmosphere in the workplace friendly and the results as expected.

Main challenge in manufacturing is to develop better production processes, ensure the right material and component supplies at the least cost, decrease production time, eliminate wastage and maintain quality in the final product.

Take some time – consult with colleagues – and list the top successes of any of your teams throughout you job experience. Prepare a brief rendition of the best. Emphasize your role, and how your good qualities generated these successes. Discuss methods for good communication, companionship, team mentality, and pride in workmanship. Do not memorize your responses, but rehearse them so that you can speak smoothly.

For QA in manufacturing techniques used are

☛ Acceptance sampling: In this testing, a random sample is picked from the batch rather than testing the whole batch.

☛ Statistical process control: Through the use of control charts and data collected for the samples at the various stages of production a manufacturing product can be monitored

☛ Troubleshooting studies: At the end of the line product, a trouble-shooting study can be carried out to see whether the changes in the inputs are associated with the output variables.

Supervising a manufacturing process includes attending to the individual phases of the production. Also, manufacturing supervisor should have a close eye on the inventory that going to be used.

☛ Step 1: Keep the records of different phases of manufacturing also analyse whether the amount of product produced by the crew is enough to meet the demand

☛ Step 2: Look for the bottlenecks in the unit and see how you can eliminate it

☛ Step 3: Keep the track of inventory and try to reduce the liquid capital used after unused material

☛ Step 4: Examine the final goods to determine whether they meet the company’s quality standards.

When responding to this question, people usually mention their own skills. Go ahead and talk about an ability to motivate the others, solve conflicts and be an example for the subordinates.

By remaining calm, weighing out all my options and executing a plan to get the situation resolve .

Example - someone from our team caught a mistake that a shipment was going to a different address than the customer specified.. We were able to call the UPS dispatch and guide us to drive out to hte truck that had our package.. Change the shipping address info, and send it on its way.

A product report is a general term used to represent design, manufacturing, quality, sales and repair information about a product.

I have always worked my way up to leadership positions from the time I was 18 years old. I have been a team leader at a fast food restaurant, a supervisor for a department to a manager at 2 of my previous jobs.

Your ability to persuade and influence your employees or team members to accept change is key.

Show how you were able to gain support and commitment from them by using the appropriate communication style, by listening and responding to concerns and questions, by asking for their help and commitment and by providing support.

In Care and Maintenance at the moment we fly in on a Tuesday which is our allotted freight day. Discussed with the PH Manager if there was an opportunity to change days of delivery that suits him and as Thursday was there non freight day we agreed on that day. Saved the delivery driver waiting up to 4 hours on site prior to getting unloaded.

I would define team work as getting the job done whether that means if I have to do more then the guy next to me as long as the work gets finished.

Six sigma is a data-driven methodology and approach for eliminating defects in any process from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service.

Well, here I can hardly advice you. It depends on your style. It’s a tough question, I know. But it’s up to you to think about it and prepare a good description of your style.

Manufacturing work in progress is when manufacturing firm transforms material into the work in process which includes raw material, labour and factory overhead. You can calculate all the below factors to know the costing for the manufacturing work in progress.

☛ labour costs

☛ Raw material inventory costs

☛ Production cost

☛ Cost of ending work in process for the accounting period

Following are the overheads a production manufacturing engineer has to consider:

☛ Factory rent

☛ Utilities used in the unit

☛ Costs behind equipment set up

☛ Costs behind equipment maintenance

☛ Production unit supplies

☛ Insurance covered on equipment’s and production facilities

☛ Fringe benefits

☛ Depreciation

☛ QA Salaries

☛ Property taxes on manufacturing facilities

☛ Material management salaries

Coaching and developing others is part of the supervisor function. Supervisor interview questions about the development of employees should include your ability to agree on the outcomes and methods of coaching with the employee, to explain and demonstrate task performance, to observe and provide constructive feedback.

Kanban is scheduling system which advises manufacturers about how much to produce, what to produce and when to produce. In this system, inventory is re-filled only when visual cues like an empty bin or cart is seen.