2 job descriptions are provided in the assignment. You will need to review each of the job descriptions and provide an exemption status decision [exempt or non-exempt]. Please provide your exemption status decision and an explanation for your decision. Making the decision and providing an explanation is what counts.

Production Supervisor

Job Summary:

The Production Supervisor will oversee and manage production shift employees and ensure compliance with safety, quality, and quantity standards.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Trains and manages production employees on the assigned shift.
• Oversees the daily workflow and assignments of the production shift.
• Provides constructive and timely feedback to management for performance evaluations.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Oversees production operations on assigned shift.
• Prepares work schedules to ensure efficient operations.
• Maintains knowledge of processes and equipment.
• Ensures that products are identified, weighed, and warehoused correctly.
• Troubleshoots issues that arise.
• Notifies maintenance department of equipment problems.
• Ensures that employees comply with applicable safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ensures paperwork is completed and signed correctly.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Thorough understanding of or the ability to quickly learn production operations and machinery.
• Excellent supervisory and leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software to complete reports and logs.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent required. AA preferred.
• 5 years experience in manufacturing production operations
• 1 year leadership experience
• Prior exceptional work experience with the company preferred.

Executive Assistant

Job Summary:

The Executive Assistant works under the general direction of the CFO, working independently, providing personal secretarial services and administrative assistance where needed.

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Takes and transcribes dictation involving standard business vocabulary on highly confidential company matters.

2. Types correspondence and reports from rough drafts, editing grammar, punctuation or spelling as needed.

3. Establishes, maintains, and when necessary, revises supervisors files.

4. Screens telephone calls and visitors, ascertaining who can be redirected to subordinate management. Provides information to callers, key external sources, which requires comprehensive knowledge of company policies, practices, and operations.

5. Performs broad range of administrative details of highly confidential nature on regular basis, requiring initiative and judgment to make independent decisions for which probable errors may have moderate effect on costs.

6. Prepares variety of highly confidential, specialized, and recurrent reports, such as financial data, summaries on proposed acquisitions, salary recommendations on corporate officers for board review, etc.

7. Maintains managers calendar, regularly arranging meetings, conferences, and appointments without clearance. Arranges hotel and travel accommodations for frequent, extended trips.

8. Opens and reviews all mail directed to manager. Composes responses to routine inquiries, delegates items to subordinate managers, and forwards appropriate items to the president / chairman.

9. Follows up on all assignments delegated to subordinate managers as to status, completion, etc.

10. May assign work to one or two other clerical/secretarial employees to assist with routine duties.

Job Specifications

1. Work requires written communication skill to compose routine letters and to edit and proof business correspondence and reports.

2. Work requires ability to type accurately and efficiently from rough draft and machine transcription or personal dictation, involving standard business vocabulary or limited range of specialized, recurrent terminology, using common word processing programs.

3. Work requires an in-depth understanding of overall company operations, its policies and procedures as well as oral communication skill to regularly assume broad variety of moderately complex administrative details, having moderate impact on costs, such as arranging meetings without clearance, assembling reports containing confidential and sensitive information, and responding to questions or requests of important callers.

4. Requires analytical ability necessary to handle moderately complex administrative details, such as preparing special, nonrecurring reports by combining confidential data from several sources, scheduling and planning work of others, and anticipating secretarial/administrative needs of supervisor. These worker characteristics are normally acquired through completion of high school education, which included a two-year vocational office education program, four years of secretarial experience, including at least two years of related company experience, plus six months on-the job training.

5. Typing data entry and proofing requires ability to read and concentrate for up to 25% of work time.

6. Generally sedentary work, but may require standing and walking for up to 10% of work time.

Working Conditions

Working environment is generally favorable. Lighting and temperature are adequate, and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc.