Assistant Supervisor, Production

Position Summary

The Production Assistant Supervisor has the responsibility and accountability for hands‑on leadership of teams or a team within a production department in normal operating circumstances. As a frontline leader, the role is instrumental in achieving daily production targets in a safe manner whilst encouraging and building their employees to perform to the highest standards. Performs general assembly of fabricated mechanical parts, fabric parts, pieces, or products using a variety of tools and equipment according to required specification in a specific area of production line in manufacturing.

This role also performs a wide variety of duties to train, assign work, and provide hands‑on direction, instruction, and guidance to employees.

• Communicate daily with employees and supervisor.
• Develop a team culture to achieve specification, yield, compliance, health and safety, and production targets.
• Assign work, and provide instruction and guidance on proper procedures, etc., to employees.
• Train and coach employees to understand what specifications, yields, compliance, health and safety, and production targets mean and how they relate to the employee’s work.
• Train personnel in the routine and preventive maintenance of equipment.
• Monitor production and re‑assign workers as necessary to meet production and shipping schedules.
• Communicate with other departments/teams clearly and regularly regarding product delivery into the department to ensure efficient production and minimal waste.
• Make certain employees are following work instructions and procedures, and using quality check lists, to perform their jobs safely, efficiently, and with acceptable (or better) quality.
• Engage employees in active problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Liaise closely with departmental quality staff to monitor that production is being completed within clear safety and quality parameters.
• Ensure all production machinery or work is performed or operated by a competent trained team member, operated in a safe manner and adhering to health and safety and work rules. Advise supervisor of problems.
• Liaise closely with departmental maintenance staff to ensure machinery breakdowns are attended to in a timely manner and maintenance is completed in a safe manner.
• Monitor employee attendance, performance, or behavior, and notify supervisor of situations requiring follow‑up corrective action.

• Check work, parts orders, and inventory of components and parts to determine items that can be assembled.
• Prepare work to be accomplished by studying assembly instructions, schematic drawing, and parts lists.
• Assist supervisor with organizing daily production requirements and clearly communicating the requirements to the employees at the start of every shift. Ensure all components for the next day’s work are ready.
• Ensure understanding of all applicable product specifications and are able to communicate/show employees how the product should be processed or produced (i.e., assembled, painted, welded, etc.).
• Perform all assembly and related operations direct labor work as required for maintaining production.
• Monitor the daily production schedule and ensure all work and finished product have met specifications and standards (customer, technical, quality), yield, and production targets.
• When product quality falls outside of acceptable limits as advised by quality staff, actively address problem areas and support the production teams to bring production and/or processing under control.
• Resolve assembly problems by verification of wiring to schematic drawing, and modification of drawings, with a qualified engineer.
• Keep fixtures, tools, and/or equipment operational and eliminate production delays by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs.
• Notify supervisor of needed repairs and recommend new equipment.
• Conserve resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Maintain supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and…