Production Supervisor- 3rd Shift
Cooper Standard · Bellefontaine, OH
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Today
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor production role at Cooper Standard (automotive) in Bellefontaine, OH. Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Production Supervisor roles in Ohio: typical posted base $74k–$97k.
Median of the low and high ends of 13 live postings that list pay, out of 75 production supervisor openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 80 other live production postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Typical $74k–$97k, from 13 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 89%
- Lean 33%
- EHS / safety 21%
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This plant: Cooper Standard in Bellefontaine
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Position Summary
Ensure the achievement of the unit's safety, production, quality, and continuous improvement goals through adequate planning, organization, coordination and control of its human and technical resources and materials.
Primary
Responsibilities
- ◆Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
- ◆Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
- ◆Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
- ◆Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
- ◆Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
- ◆Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
- ◆Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
- ◆Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
- ◆Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- ◆Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
- ◆Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
- ◆Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
- ◆Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
- ◆Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
- ◆Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
- ◆Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
- ◆Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
- ◆May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
- ◆Participate in or lead safety‐related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
- ◆Ensure that HSE legal and management system
requirements
for work areas are met.
- ✓May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description
Qualifications
- ✓Four year degree or two year degree in pursuit of a four year degree with two to four years in supervision and / or more than 3 years practical experience in supervision / management
- ✓Ability to identify and resolve day to day technical and operational problems.
- ✓Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
- ✓Computer competency required, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
- ✓Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
- ✓Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.
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Work Environment/Work Conditions
- •Professional Office Environment
- •Must wear proper personal protection equipment while on manufacturing floor
- •Travel to manufacturing facilities or customer locations when required
- •Equipment used requires proper training on the potential for and avoidance of injury
Position Type
Regular
Remote Status
On-site