Josh Evje
The following encompasses a summary of responses between myself, Josh Evje and Richard Casper, who is the current third shift supervisor at Henkel Technologies. Richard supervises third shift production, which manufacture’s adhesives, sealants, and resins for the automotive industry.
Richard has been a third shift supervisor at Henkel for eleven years, yet he has been employed with the company for seventeen years. Richard currently supervises twenty-six production employees. He is also helping oversee our facility’s second shift which currently has twenty-three employees and has no production supervisor. His primary objective is to oversee the daily operations of the production floor, help provide a safe and productive work environment, and conduct informative and helpful shift change meetings for the incoming and outgoing shifts.
Richard feels his main purpose is to provide a productive work environment while motivating people to work as a team. He feels the team strategy is a big advantage over an individual approach.
Shift change meetings are stressed most importantly from upper management for Richard to spend time conveying. (The notes and information discussed at these meetings are distributed by the production manager). Richard spends a lot of time mediating employees on paper work inaccuracies, and other areas of a specific employee’s issues. He also has to complete all shifts’ time cards, and all shifts safety suggestions. Acceptable suggestions are then submitted to the production manager. After conveying all needed info at a shift change meeting, Richard delegates which work takes priority according to the information he rec ...