Supervisor, Manufacturing ​/ Production, Production Manager

Job Details

Job Location:

Campbellsburg, IN 47108

The Production Supervisor is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating production activities within their assigned departments to ensure the safe, efficient, and quality-driven manufacture of products. This position provides daily leadership and direction to floor leads and production employees, coordinating resources and personnel to achieve production, quality, delivery, and safety objectives.

Responsibilities include executing leadership standard work, including employee coaching and development, performance management, floor audits, shift communication, process verification, and continuous improvement activities. This position performs administrative duties including performance evaluations, attendance management, productivity and efficiency tracking, scrap analysis, and reporting.

This position regularly audits production processes and work practices throughout the facility to ensure compliance with established standards, procedures, and quality requirements. The incumbent promotes a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement while maintaining a safe work environment for all employees.

• Provides day-to-day direction and leadership to department leads and employees.
• Plans and delegates workloads to production supervisors and adjust assignments as necessary.
• Communicate daily to manager the following:
  • Any information necessary to ensure product quality and delivery
  • Suggestions for training, documentation, or standards to ensure employee competence, morale, safety, and productivity
  • Significant events during the absence of first shift management
  • Continually reviews standards of job performance and works with employees to improve performance and safety.
  • Provides employees with feedback regarding performance with a focus on positive reinforcement, employee recognition, and employee career development.
  • Maintains a visible leadership presence within assigned departments by routinely engaging employees, conducting floor audits, verifying adherence to standard work, removing barriers to performance, and providing coaching, recognition, and corrective feedback as necessary.
  • Pursues continuous improvement by developing, implementing, and supporting solutions/ strategies to increase productivity, reduce scrap, and improve the operation.
  • Work in concert with Setup personnel, Operations, Engineering and Quality Assurance to ensure that all products manufactured in the Press Department conform to the highest quality standards.
  • Assist Quality Assurance and Engineering to disposition non-conforming product.
  • Communicate with Maintenance and Engineering to keep equipment in a condition to produce quality product at acceptable production levels.
  • Conducts employee communication “toolbox” meetings and conducts employee training, including but not limited to MPP Roots whenever necessary.
  • Review, approve and manage employee time and attendance records; address discrepancies and ensure compliance with company policies.
  • Serves on and leads teams within their respective site to solve problems or improve performance, safety on time delivery and output.
  • Actively works to improve employee morale and address employee concerns.
  • Maintains an organized, safe, and visually controlled work environment consistent with 5S standards.
  • Administers Company Policies and Procedures.
  • Addresses and issues employee discipline as needed.
  • Communicates with the necessary people to keep current all work instructions, means of written communication and other documentation in the department.
  • Orders department supplies and communicates needs to the purchasing manager.
  • Scheduling department work, communication with management…