Shift Supervisor

Description


The Shift Supervisor serves as the on-shift leader responsible for overseeing production operations, safety, quality, maintenance coordination, and employee performance within a continuous manufacturing environment. This position ensures safe, efficient, and uninterrupted production while leading operators, maintenance personnel, and support staff to meet production and quality objectives.

This role is ideal for hands-on manufacturing leaders who enjoy leading teams, solving operational challenges, developing employees, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced industrial setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and direct production personnel and maintenance support activities during assigned shifts
• Monitor plant operations and production performance through collaboration with control room operators and floor personnel
• Make operational decisions to meet production, safety, and quality goals
• Coordinate team activities and prioritize work assignments
• Support troubleshooting efforts and oversee basic equipment repairs
• Ensure product quality checks, process monitoring, and testing activities are completed
• Review operational data and direct process adjustments as needed
• Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance activities
• Enforce safety policies, environmental requirements, and operational procedures
• Conduct shift turnover meetings and communicate operational status
• Train, coach, and develop operators, technicians, and production personnel
• Promote teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement initiatives

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Associate's Degree or Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Minimum 2 years of manufacturing, industrial, chemical processing, recycling, or heavy industrial experience
• Previous leadership, supervisory, crew lead, or team lead experience preferred
• Strong understanding of production operations and workplace safety
• Ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing conditions
• Comfortable working rotating 12-hour shifts
• Basic computer skills including email, reporting systems, and operational documentation

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience in:
  
  • Chemical processing
  • Refining
  • Recycling
  • Energy production
  • Mining
  • Pulp & paper
  • Continuous-process manufacturing
• Experience leading teams in a 24/7 manufacturing operation
• Control room operations experience
• Equipment troubleshooting and maintenance coordination experience
• Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) program experience
• ISO-regulated manufacturing experience
• Employee training and mentoring experience
• Military leadership experience in:
  
  • Operations
  • Engineering
  • Maintenance
  • Technical supervision

Ideal Candidate

• Hands-on leader who enjoys being on the production floor
• Strong safety mindset
• Comfortable making decisions under pressure
• Effective communicator across operations, maintenance, quality, and leadership teams
• Adaptable and capable of managing changing priorities
• Team-oriented with a positive attitude
• Interested in long-term growth within manufacturing leadership

Work Environment

• Active industrial manufacturing facility
• Exposure to:
  
  • Heavy equipment
  • Industrial materials
  • Chemicals
  • Carbon black
  • Noise and dust
• Required PPE:
  
  • Safety glasses
  • Gloves
  • Hearing protection
  • Additional required safety equipment
• Physical requirements:
  
  • Standing, walking, and climbing throughout shift
  • Lifting 25-40 pounds
  • Working in both production and laboratory environments

Why This Opportunity?

• Strong entry point into plant leadership and operations management
• 10% annual bonus opportunity
• Rapidly growing manufacturing operation
• Excellent opportunity for military leaders transitioning from operations, maintenance, engineering, logistics, power generation, nuclear, aviation maintenance, or industrial environments
• Significant advancement potential into:
  
  • Production Manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Plant Manager
  • Continuous Improvement Leader
  • Manufacturing Leadership roles

Recruiter Talking Points

• This is a leadership role first and a technical role second.
• Candidates do not need chemical processing experience if they have led people in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Military supervisors, NCOs, shift leaders, maintenance supervisors, and operations leaders are highly transferable.
• The company values leadership presence, decision-making ability, accountability, and safety culture more than deep process-specific experience.
• The 2-2-3 schedule provides built-in extended time off while maintaining full-time compensation and benefits.