Weekend Shift Production Supervisor

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Manufacturing Admin TN Salary Full Time Regular Salary Gallatin, TN, US

Job Specification — Discrete Manufacturing, Machining and Assembly

The Weekend Production Supervisor is responsible for leading weekend manufacturing operations in a discrete manufacturing environment that includes CNC machining, secondary operations, assembly, inspection, and related material flow activities. This role provides hands‑on leadership to ensure safe, disciplined, and efficient execution of the production schedule while maintaining quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement objectives. The position requires strong presence, practical manufacturing knowledge, production‑control discipline, and the ability to make timely decisions with limited off‑shift support.

This position typically reports to the Manufacturing Manager or Operations Manager and works closely with Production Control, Materials, Quality, Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, and EHS. The role is assigned to a weekend schedule, commonly Friday through Sunday or a comparable weekend shift pattern, with flexibility required to support training, shift handoffs, overtime coverage, special builds, inventory activities, or urgent production needs.

• Lead weekend machining and assembly teams to execute the approved production schedule safely, efficiently, and in accordance with standard work, quality requirements, and company policies.
• Maintain an active presence on the shop floor, coaching operators, resolving barriers, reinforcing expectations, and creating a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Confirm labor readiness, machine and cell staffing, work order availability, material availability, tooling, fixtures, gauges, inspection requirements, and equipment readiness before and during each shift.
• Monitor production performance throughout the shift, including schedule attainment, output, earned hours, labor utilization, downtime, scrap, rework, first-pass yield, quality holds, and safety performance.
• Coordinate with Production Control, Materials, and weekday supervisors to ensure weekend work is properly prioritized, released, staged, transacted, and communicated before the start of the shift.
• Escalate constraints that could impact safety, quality, delivery, or cost, including material shortages, machine downtime, tooling issues, quality defects, absenteeism, staffing gaps, or unclear production priorities.
• Ensure accurate execution of ERP/MRP transactions, work order reporting, labor reporting, move transactions, scrap reporting, material returns, and production‑completion activities.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action for production misses, recurring defects, downtime events, schedule disruptions, and material‑flow issues.
• Partner with Quality to ensure first‑piece approvals, in‑process checks, containment activity, nonconforming material handling, and final inspection requirements are followed.
• Partner with Maintenance and Manufacturing Engineering to resolve machine, tooling, fixture, process, and equipment issues that limit safe and repeatable production performance.
• Reinforce compliance with safety requirements, PPE, lockout/tagout expectations, machine guarding, ergonomic practices, housekeeping, 5S, and incident‑reporting procedures.
• Prepare clear shift handoff notes for weekday leadership, including completed work, open issues, staffing concerns, quality concerns, downtime reasons, shortages, and recommended follow‑up actions.

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