Night shift supervisor, Manufacturing ​/ Production

Our client is a global Packaging manufacturer.

Our client is a leading manufacturing organization seeking an experienced Production Supervisor to oversee daily plant operations, lead a high-performing production team, and drive a strong culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Lead daily production operations to ensure safety, quality, productivity, and production goals are consistently achieved.
• Serve as a safety leader by promoting a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with the EHS team to maintain and improve plant safety programs, including audits, GEMBAs, incident investigations, and corrective actions.
• Monitor employee practices and production processes to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Investigate near misses, property damage, employee injuries, and other incidents, identifying opportunities for corrective and preventative action.
• Monitor production output and product quality to ensure conformance with established specifications and standards.
• Manage daily production schedules and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, throughput, and overall performance.
• Evaluate equipment, material, and process issues and collaborate with Maintenance, Process Engineering, Quality, and other teams to resolve problems.
• Investigate production variances and develop recommendations when standards or targets are not met.
• Utilize production dashboards, SAP, and other data to monitor performance and support data-driven decision making.
• Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring improvements are sustained over time.
• Manage employee timecards, schedules, and time-off requests to ensure accurate payroll and appropriate staffing coverage.
• Directly supervise production employees, providing coaching, feedback, and support to promote engagement and strong performance.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment built around accountability, communication, and continuous improvement.
• Address employee relations issues proactively and apply company policies and disciplinary procedures consistently and fairly.
• Conduct performance evaluations and support employee development, training, and career growth.
• Ensure required employee training remains current and that employees understand and retain key concepts.
• Promote open, two-way communication and motivate team members to achieve individual and department goals.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree preferred, with at least 2 years of experience in production, operations, quality, maintenance, or a related manufacturing function;
  or an equivalent combination of education and 5+ years of relevant experience
  .
• Previous supervisory or leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong commitment to workplace safety and product quality.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships across the organization.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, including the ability to gather and interpret data to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Ability to manage conflict, prioritize competing demands, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced production environment.
• Leadership style that encourages employee involvement, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; experience with SAP or similar manufacturing/ERP systems is a plus.

What You’ll Bring

The ideal candidate is a hands-on manufacturing leader who can balance people leadership, production performance, safety, quality, and continuous improvement
. This individual will be comfortable working in a fast-paced plant environment, collaborating cross-functionally, and developing employees while holding the team accountable to operational standards.

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