Plant Supervisor

The Production & Distribution Supervisor is responsible for developing employees, setting work schedules, managing employee relations, ensuring employee performance meets the daily Production, Shipping, Receiving, Material Transfer, and Inventory Control activities/requirements. This position is accountable for coordinating and supporting daily delivery performance, reducing past-due orders, and ensuring customer requirements are met through effective production planning, scheduling, material flow, inventory accuracy, and on-time shipment of quality products.

The Supervisor reviews customer demand, forecast, backlog, past-due orders daily, establishes production and shipping priorities, leads production meetings, and coordinates recovery actions for issues impacting delivery. This position works cross-functionally to address Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, material, capacity, and inventory issues and supports assigned projects and continuous improvement activities.

Performs other duties as assigned.

• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, past-due orders, material availability, labor, and capacity to establish daily production and shipping priorities.
• Monitor OTD and past-due performance daily, identify delivery risks and key drivers, and execute and follow up on recovery actions.
• Lead daily production meetings to review priorities, delivery performance, past dues, material constraints, capacity, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate with Planning, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, Engineering, and other departments to resolve issues impacting production and customer delivery.

• Minimum 2–5 years of supervisory or leadership experience in manufacturing, production, distribution, warehouse, or similar operations.
• Experience with production planning, scheduling, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Experience working with ERP systems in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Experience managing daily operational priorities and working cross-functionally to resolve delivery, material, capacity, or inventory issues.

• Ability to lead and develop employees while promoting accountability, teamwork, and cross-functional communication.
• Understanding of production planning, scheduling, material flow, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, OTD, past-due performance, and capacity to identify risks and drive action plans.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, identify issues, and follow actions through completion.
• Experience with 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, process flow, and other continuous improvement activities.
• Experience with ERP systems, Microsoft Office, UPS, Fed Ex, and other applicable shipping systems.
• Ability to work independently, adapt to changing business requirements, and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.

• Associate or bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.