Operations Supervisor - 1st Shift

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Full Time Chestertown, MD, US

Salary Range: $23.00 To $28.00 Annually

Job Title: Operations Supervisor

Department: Testabs

Reports To: Value Stream Manager – Tablets, Reagents and Production Lab

High school diploma or equivalent required. Prior supervisory or team-lead experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred. Strong mechanical aptitude, equipment-operating skills, computer proficiency, and demonstrated ability to plan work, train employees, troubleshoot production issues, and maintain accurate documentation are required. Must be able to multitask, wear a chemical cartridge respirator, transport up to 50 pounds, and handle a loaded pallet jack.

• Conducts a daily 15-minute safety and production huddle covering safety topics, quality concerns, backlog, material or inventory issues, the production schedule, staffing assignments, and employee feedback.
• Builds and maintains safe workplace conditions, practices, and behaviors that comply with applicable safety and environmental requirements; identifies and corrects hazards and ensures employees follow established controls.
• Participates in and conducts tablet-area safety activities, including Gemba walks, hazardous-waste audits, safety observations, improvement projects, and required eyewash, safety-shower, and fire-extinguisher checks.
• Plans and manages daily tablet production across bulk powder manufacturing, tablet compression, strip packaging, bottling, and related packaging operations to meet safety, quality, service, and productivity requirements.
• Is fully trained in tablet production processes and equipment and is capable of performing key department tasks and training employees on approved procedures.
• Develops and adjusts the production schedule within the supervisor’s scope, verifies raw-material availability, sets up packaging jobs, optimizes changeovers, and escalates constraints that may affect customer requirements.
• Operates, adjusts, troubleshoots, and coordinates maintenance of tablet manufacturing and packaging equipment in accordance with approved procedures.
• Ensures production rates and quality standards are met; performs or verifies required in-process and finished-product inspections and responds promptly to deviations, holds, nonconformances, and other issues.
• Completes and audits production logs, job travelers, and daily shift reports; ensures materials are issued, required operations are entered, scrap is accurately recorded, and documentation is completed on the day work is performed.
• Maintains inventory control for tablet raw materials, bulk powders, work in process, and finished goods; facilitates replenishment, ensures cycle counts are completed, places finished product into inventory, and resolves discrepancies and job variances.
• Generates production jobs through the workbench or manually, as authorized, and ensures items broken down for repackaging are properly relieved from inventory.
• Implements approved formulation, process, procedure, and Engineering Change Order changes in coordination with Quality, R&D, Engineering, and the Value Stream Manager.
• Communicates production status, raw-material shortages, supplier changes, lead-time risks, and product shortages to the appropriate internal partners, including Purchasing, Kit Assembly, Customer Service, Quality, R&D, Engineering, Maintenance, and the Value Stream Manager.
• Reviews and approves timecards, time-off requests, attendance points, overtime, and other assigned workforce transactions accurately and on time.
• Coordinates onboarding,…