Production Supervisor
GKN Aerospace · Garden Grove, CA
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $86k–$107k
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 7 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor production role at GKN Aerospace (aerospace & defense) in Garden Grove, CA.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, Tooling
- Base pay
- $86k–$107k
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Supervisor roles in California: typical posted base $87k–$112k. This one lists $86k–$107k.
Median of the low and high ends of 32 live postings that list pay, out of 55 production supervisor openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
California plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 68 other live production postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 6% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $82k–$101k, from 26 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 75%
- ✓ Lean 57%
- EHS / safety 25%
- ✓ Root cause 25%
- 5S 20%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Union environment, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Full description from GKN AerospaceAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job Summary
Lead assigned manufacturing teams to safely produce conforming aerospace transparencies on time, at the required cost and productivity levels, while building employee capability and engagement.
Execute daily management, leader standard work, performance coaching, and structured problem solving to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance in a fast-paced, regulated manufacturing environment.
Serve as the first-line connection between employees and site leadership by setting clear expectations, removing barriers, escalating risk, and sustaining disciplined operating standards.
Job
Responsibilities
1. Safety, Environmental and Workplace Control
- ◆Lead daily work with a safety-first mindset; verify employees understand applicable hazards, controls, personal protective equipment, and site procedures before work begins.
- ◆Conduct routine floor presence, safety observations, pre-shift communications, and prompt escalation of hazards, injuries, near misses, environmental concerns, and unsafe conditions.
- ◆Ensure compliance with lockout/tagout, machine guarding, material handling, housekeeping, chemical, ergonomic, emergency, and other
requirements
applicable to the assigned area.
- ✓Stop or redirect work when conditions could compromise employee safety, product integrity, equipment, or the environment.
2. Production, Quality and Delivery Execution
- ✓Supervise daily activities of assigned employees so parts, products, materials, and production records conform to established quality and manufacturing standards.
- ✓Translate the production plan into clear shift priorities, staffing assignments, work sequencing, and escalation needs; coordinate constraints with support functions and peer Team Leaders.
- ✓Monitor safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, attendance, work-in-process, scrap, rework, and downtime performance; take timely action when results deviate from plan.
- ✓Ensure required work instructions, process specifications, tooling, materials, training, and resources are available and used as intended.
3. Daily Management and Structured Problem Solving
- ✓Execute Daily Management and Standardized Work through Leader Standard Work, tiered communication, visible metrics, routine floor reviews, and disciplined action follow-up.
- ✓Identify abnormalities, contain immediate risks, escalate barriers, and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions with accountable owners.
- ✓Use practical Lean and continuous-improvement methods to reduce waste, improve flow, simplify work, and strengthen repeatable performance.
- ✓Verify that improvements are documented, communicated, trained, and sustained without compromising safety, quality, configuration control, or customer requirements.
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4. People Leadership, Engagement and Development
- ✓Build and lead a highly engaged team; set clear expectations, ensure employees have the resources needed to succeed, and recognize meaningful contributions.
- ✓Create and sustain a culture aligned with Great Place to Grow values through visible leadership, respectful communication, consistency, and follow-through.
- ✓Provide timely, candid performance feedback; conduct performance appraisals; coach employees to close gaps and strengthen capability.
- ✓Identify development opportunities, support cross-training and succession readiness, and help employees leverage their strengths and pursue growth.
- ✓Drive employee engagement actions and partner with Human Resources on attendance, performance, conduct, labor-relations, and employee-support matters in accordance with company practices.
5. Cross-Functional Coordination and Compliance
- ✓Collaborate with other Team Leaders and with quality, engineering, planning, maintenance, EH&S, supply chain, Human Resources, and continuous-improvement partners to optimize site performance.
- ✓Communicate shift status, risks, constraints, priorities, and required decisions accurately and promptly across shifts and leadership levels.
- ✓Comply with applicable Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Export Control, labor, security, quality, environmental, health, and safety requirements.
- ✓Perform other related duties consistent with the role and business needs.
Job
Qualifications
- ✓High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- ✓Five years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to organize daily work, communicate expectations, address operating issues, and work effectively with production employees and support functions.
- ✓Ability to use basic business and manufacturing systems for communication, performance tracking, documentation, and follow-up.
- ✓Ability to work on-site in an active manufacturing environment and support the schedule required by the assigned operation.
- ✓Must satisfy all position-specific employment eligibility, export-control, site-access, and security
requirements
applicable to the work performed, including ITAR/EAR requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Management, Business, or a related field.
- ✓Experience supervising and leading production personnel in aerospace, defense, aviation, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
- ✓Experience leading teams in a union
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Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
