Production Supervisor

Production Supervisor

Join a dynamic manufacturing team as a Production Supervisor in a fast-paced plant environment where your leadership directly influences operational success. This full-time, direct hire opportunity offers a chance to lead daily production activities, foster a positive team culture, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. If you're a hands-on leader with a passion for manufacturing excellence, this role is your platform to make a meaningful impact while advancing your career. The ideal candidate is a strong floor leader who can communicate effectively across departments, remove roadblocks, support lean manufacturing initiatives, and maintain a positive, accountable production culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise, train, motivate, and evaluate production employees and team leads.
• Assign employees to jobs based on production needs, skill level, and workflow priorities.
• Conduct daily floor meetings to communicate goals, priorities, safety expectations, and production updates.
• Monitor the production schedule and ensure parts, assemblies, materials, and labor are aligned to support on-time delivery.
• Work closely with materials, operations, engineering, customer service, production planning, warehouse, receiving, shipping, and inspection teams to resolve production issues.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to improve work instructions, assembly processes, workflow, equipment usage, 5S practices, and Kaizen initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and support lean manufacturing improvements.
• Help develop and justify equipment needs, facility improvements, and shop-related capital budget items.
• Plan and schedule work to meet department deadlines, quality standards, and production goals.
• Manage employee schedules, including overtime planning, to ensure proper labor coverage.
• Track production efficiency and take corrective action when performance targets are not being met.
• Support routing creation for large system builds and related production work.
• Coordinate expedited orders, finished goods movement, special packaging needs, and customer routing instructions.
• Manage production floor consumables and ensure necessary supplies are ordered and available.
• Troubleshoot quantity discrepancies, assembly issues, goods movement errors, and production delays.
• Complete annual performance reviews for direct reports.
• Maintain discipline and recommend corrective action when necessary.
• Support environmental compliance efforts, including proper handling and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste in accordance with applicable regulations.
• Maintain confidentiality when working with proprietary company information.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business management, industrial management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of three years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience leading production employees in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of 5S and lean manufacturing principles required.
• SAP experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Fluid power industry experience is a plus.
• Forklift certification preferred, including experience with Raymond upright equipment.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong hands-on leadership ability with a positive, team-focused approach.
• Ability to lead, coach, and hold employees accountable in a production environment.
• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating instructions, maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, diagrams, and work-related documentation.
• Ability to write routine reports, correspondence, and production-related updates.
• Comfortable presenting information in one-on-one and small group settings.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to calculate rates, ratios, percentages, and interpret basic production data and graphs.
• Strong troubleshooting, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Occasional travel, including overnight stays, may be required as business needs dictate.