Production Supervisor

The Production Supervisor leads daily operations in a complex machining environment, ensuring safety, quality, volume, and cost goals are met. This role manages workflow, enforces procedures, drives process improvements, and oversees team performance.

include troubleshooting production issues and scheduling maintenance to minimize downtime. A background in project management is highly desirable, as the role involves leading cross-functional process improvements and driving timeline-driven initiatives

Provides hiring, promotion, and disciplinary recommendations, as well as performance evaluation and feedback for direct reports. Ensures all safety procedures are followed and metrics achieved. Investigates, troubleshoots, and provides solutions to production problems. Aids in planning, prioritizing, and managing production line maintenance or downtime to minimize disruption to manufacturing schedules.

Schedule: Monday – Friday 7am – 4:00pm

• ◆Lead/Supervise the manufacturing operations for a variety of machine tools, and/or assembly operations including, the activities of the shop floor, coordinating production schedules, and flexing of resource deployment.
• ◆Plan, schedule, and coordinate departmental activities to fulfill sales orders, meet inventory requirements, and deliver manufactured products in a timely fashion.
• ◆Supervise all assigned employee hiring and retention, performance review, and discipline.
• ◆Manages department priorities and tracks absenteeism and timekeeping.
• ◆Ensures effective employee relations; provides employee coaching and development; resolves employee issues through problem resolution.
• ◆Maintains an ability to balance, achieve positive results and continuously improve in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost, and employee relations.
• ◆Manages departmental performance measures, including visual controls, and provides regular progress reports to the manager.
• ◆Performs accident/incident root cause investigations & solicits actions to prevent recurrence. Quality orientation and attention to detail plus an ability to manage multiple priorities and manage ambiguities.
• ◆Leads & facilitates VOC (Voice of the Customer) quality discrepancy root cause investigations using 5 Why’s, DMAIC or other lean tools and solicits actions to prevent recurrence.

Critical Competencies

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following:

• ◆Efficiently manage tasks and deadlines to ensure productivity and meet goals, even when working with minimal supervision.
• ◆Demonstrate a high level of computer proficiency in creating reports, employing advanced software skills for data visualization and effective information presentation.
• ◆Exhibit strong abilities in building, leading, and fostering teamwork, creating an environment where individuals collaborate effectively to achieve common goals.
• ◆Display outstanding verbal and written communication skills, ensuring clarity and effectiveness in conveying information and ideas to diverse audiences.
• ◆Showcase organizational and planning abilities, enabling efficient task management, prioritization, and goal-oriented execution.
• ◆Self-motivated initiative: Possess a self-starter mindset, proactively taking the initiative to identify and pursue opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• ◆Data-Informed Decision-Making: Utilize data-driven approaches to decision-making, applying analytical skills to gather, analyze, and interpret information for well-informed choices and strategies.

• ✓3-5 years of Supervisory experience in Manufacturing.
• ✓Supervisory experience in a Machining and Fabrication environment with high mix preferred.

Physical Demand and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• ✓While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and is occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• ✓The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• ✓While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and vibration. The noise levels in the work environment are usually moderate. However, in some instances, this job may require work in areas where ear protection is necessary.