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Production Supervisor

Owens Corning · Jackson, TN

Level
Supervisor
Team
Production
Experience asked
18+ years
Certification
Green Belt preferred
Industry
Industrial
Posted
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The role in 30 seconds

A supervisor production role at Owens Corning (industrial) in Jackson, TN.

They ask for
18+ years · Green Belt preferred
Tools it names
Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, OEE, Root cause

Read from the posting. The full description is below.

From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026

Production Supervisor roles in Tennessee: typical posted base $73k–$118k.

Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 38 production supervisor openings in Tennessee, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

Tennessee plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →

How this role compares

Against 32 other live production postings in Tennessee.

Experience asked
More than usual (18+ vs 3+)

Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Team leadership 97%
  • ✓ Lean 39%
  • ✓ Root cause 36%
  • 5S 33%
  • ✓ Six Sigma 24%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

Stands out: this posting asks for TPM, OEE, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 18+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

At a glance

Promotion path mentioned

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How to get in at this plant

Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.

  1. 1

    Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Owens Corning

    Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.

  2. 2

    Send a short, curious note

    One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.

  3. 3

    Turn a reply into a short call

    Questions worth asking about this team:

    • What does a normal week look like on your team?
    • The posting mentions a Green Belt. Does the company sponsor certification?
    • How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
  4. 4

    Apply with someone vouching for you

    If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.

  5. 5

    Bring proof to the interview

    One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.

This plant: Owens Corning in Jackson

1 other open role at this site.

Full description from Owens CorningAs posted on their careers site.Show

Responsibilities

Living the safety stand and adhering to safety

responsibilities

  • ◆Promote and enforce a culture of safety by ensuring compliance with all safety policies, procedures, and regulations.
  • ◆Conduct regular safety audits, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
  • ◆Lead safety training and awareness initiatives to reduce workplace hazards.
  • ◆Lead execution of monthly team safety

requirements

– including completion of behavior-based safety observations, near miss reporting, safe work permits, safety meetings, pre-shift safety inspections, departmental inspections, etc. and builds a culture where safety is the number one priority.

  • ✓Participates in the investigation of safety incidents and leads root cause analysis to drive for permanent resolution.

Achieve customer satisfaction and quality commitments.

  • ✓Understand and communicate customer expectations throughout the Operations Department, and ensure all products meet customer standards and requirements.
  • ✓Ensure timely and accurate production to schedules in order to meet or exceed delivery to promise.
  • ✓Plan, coordinate, and supervise daily production activities to meet output, efficiency, and quality targets.
  • ✓Perform root cause analysis with the involvement of operators on all quality issues and resolve.
  • ✓Train operators on problem solving skills, and coach through resolution.
  • ✓Monitor production metrics and implement corrective actions to address variances.
  • ✓Collaborate with quality assurance to ensure products meet or exceed standards.

Qualifications

  • ✓Completed High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • ✓Must be at least 18 years of age
  • ✓Must be proficient in speaking, reading, and
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The Production Supervisor is responsible for ensuring a safe, inclusive, and productive work environment while meeting production and quality targets. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator and team leader with a passion for employee development, engagement, and continuous improvement.

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has placed on the Fortune 500®. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe. A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within each and every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

Reports to : Operations Leader

Schedule: 12-hour Rotating Shift

Span of Control: Approximately 30

JOB

Leading and Developing Talent

  • •Engages all teams to collaboratively own the success of the business by contributing to continuous improvement in the areas of safety, quality, cost, productivity, etc.
  • •Provides candid feedback on expectations and performance to members of the team on a regular basis, and drives appropriate actions for further improvement.
  • •Identify skill gaps and coordinate ongoing training and cross-training opportunities.
  • •Support career development through coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback.
  • •Invests in the growth and development of team members and others to achieve sustained success.
  • •Implements and documents corrective action when performance issues occur.
  • •Partners with relevant stakeholders to ensure team members are well trained and up to date on certifications required to perform the full scope of the job.
  • •Effectively communicates critical plant performance metrics to team members on a daily basis to ensure engagement.

Managing Operations

  • •Reaches mutually beneficial agreement with all operating departments on required capacity specifications. Capacity specifications are measured by Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or a similar metric that measures capacity related to quality, availability, and performance.
  • •Analyses and communicates output data to the Leader on a regular basis.
  • •Assesses situations and takes action to proactively mitigate potential problems.
  • •Ensures consistent product quality by guiding team members to analyze key process variables, maintain critical product and equipment information.
  • •Performs root cause analysis in partnership with key stakeholders to address quality issues, and resolves those issues in a timely manner.
  • •Utilizes proper resourcing to meet cost targets.
  • •Partners with the maintenance staff to ensure the efficiency of plant equipment.
  • •Verify time and attendance reports ensuring processing and production needs are met.

Employee Engagement and Communication

  • •Foster a positive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and collaboration.
  • •Maintain open lines of communication with team members through regular meetings, feedback sessions, and one-on-one check-ins.
  • •Recognize and celebrate team achievements and individual contributions.
  • •Encourage all employees to build strong working relationships and communication through sharing, respect, candor, integrity, innovation, accountability, and fun.

Continuous Improvement

  • •Identify opportunities for process improvements and cost reductions.
  • •Lead or participate in TPM, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other improvement initiatives.
  • •Encourage employee involvement in problem-solving and innovation.

JOB

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