Manufacturing Supervisor, 1st shift

Manufacturing Supervisor (Rope Mill)

As the only fully integrated maker of premium quality wire, rope, and assemblies, Loos & Co holds a leading position in the global aerospace sector.

A division of the Central Wire (CWI) Group of Companies encompassing 12 locations in three countries, 750+ employees, and over six decades of excellence, Loos & Co solutions are found in mission critical flight control applications. Our precision-manufactured components are also used for defense, med tech, and heavy industry purposes around the world, in large part because of the people behind our products.

The Manufacturing Supervisor (Rope Mill) leads the people and production activities of an assigned shift to safely achieve established quality, delivery, productivity, and cost expectations.

The essential function of the position is to provide direct leadership of production employees and team leads; organize and assign shift work; monitor production, staffing, equipment, and quality performance; respond to operating issues as they arise; and maintain accountability for employee performance, attendance, conduct, and adherence to established processes.

The Supervisor is responsible for translating the Rope Mill's production plan and department priorities into successful shift execution. This includes maintaining visibility on the production floor, identifying and resolving barriers to performance, coordinating support from other functions when needed, escalating significant risks promptly, and ensuring an effective handoff to the following shift.

• Lead assigned shift operations and establish clear expectations for safety, quality, production, productivity, attendance, conduct, and teamwork.
• Maintain an active presence on the production floor to understand operating conditions, support employees, identify barriers, and ensure adherence to established expectations and standard work.
• Review shift production requirements and organize labor, equipment, materials, tooling, and priorities to achieve the established production plan.
• Assign work and adjust staffing or production priorities during the shift in response to absenteeism, equipment issues, material availability, changing priorities, or other operating conditions.
• Monitor shift performance through established daily management systems and key performance indicators, including safety, production attainment, throughput, labor efficiency, scrap, yield, downtime, quality, and attendance.
• Identify gaps against shift expectations and take timely corrective action within the Supervisor's authority; promptly escalate issues requiring additional resources, decisions, or cross-functional support.
• Direct, coach, and develop production employees and team leads; provide regular feedback, reinforce expectations, recognize strong performance, and address performance or conduct concerns promptly and consistently.
• Manage attendance and staffing on the assigned shift, including call-offs, tardiness, overtime needs, break coverage, and appropriate escalation of staffing concerns.
• Support employee onboarding and training by ensuring new and developing employees receive appropriate instruction, coaching, qualification, and follow-up.
• Maintain a safe work environment; enforce safety requirements; correct unsafe behaviors or conditions; participate in incident investigations, corrective actions, observations, and risk-reduction activities.
• Ensure production meets customer specifications, internal quality requirements, documented processes, and established work instructions.
• Respond promptly to quality concerns and process variation; contain issues within the Supervisor's authority and engage Quality, Engineering, or management when additional support or corrective action is required.
• Maintain process discipline and standard work for stranding and related operations; identify recurring variation, bottlenecks, delays, and non-value-added activity and elevate opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor equipment performance and coordinate with Maintenance to address breakdowns, recurring equipment concerns, preventive maintenance needs, tooling…