Production Supervisor

Role Purpose

The Team Leader / Production Supervisor provides day-to-day leadership for manufacturing operations, ensuring safe execution, consistent quality, achievement of production commitments, and effective use of people and equipment. This role maintains a strong floor presence, establishes clear priorities, removes operational barriers, and develops employees to build a capable, accountable, and engaged team.

The position works closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and other supporting functions to resolve issues, improve performance, and meet customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute operating plan to achieve team objectives
• Review team performance with team members at regular intervals
• Conduct hourly/direct labor employee performance reviews and provide coaching as needed
• Ensure team executes documented operating procedures and follows established document control protocols
• Hold reports accountable for adherence to established procedures and setpoints for process control; ensures awareness and compliance to changes

Minimum Qualifications

• Previous experience in a manufacturing, production, or industrial environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading employees, coordinating work, or directing daily production activities.
• Ability to understand production schedules, work instructions, quality requirements, and operational performance information.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and respond effectively to operational issues.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and Teams.
• Ability to work on the manufacturing floor and meet the physical requirements of the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in operations management, in mechanical, Chemical, Electrical Engineering, Material Sciences Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Previous experience as a Team Leader, Lead, Supervisor, or comparable manufacturing leadership role.
• Experience with Lean manufacturing, structured problem-solving, root-cause analysis, or continuous improvement.
• Experience using operational data to monitor and improve manufacturing performance.
• Experience supporting employee training, qualification, cross-training, and development.
• Familiarity with enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution, quality management, or workforce-management systems.