Quality Supervisor - 2nd Shift

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* What you will do:

*** Directly supervise all plant quality inspectors across lines or departments
* Plan and assign daily work schedules to ensure inspection coverage for all production areas
* Balance inspector workload based on production demand, risk level, and staffing availability
* Monitor team attendance, punctuality, overtime, and shift handoff effectiveness
* Lead shift start-up meetings with inspectors to review priorities, quality alerts, and problem areas
* Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and support to inspectors on inspection expectations and decision-making
* Set clear performance expectations for inspectors regarding accuracy, timeliness, discipline, and reporting
* Conduct regular one-on-one coaching and feedback sessions with inspectors
* Complete performance evaluations and document employee performance issues or achievements
* Support corrective action, disciplinary steps, and recognition programs for team members as needed
* Identify skill gaps and coordinate cross-training to improve team flexibility
* Develop backup coverage plans for absences, vacations, and high-volume production periods
* Participate in hiring, onboarding, and training new inspectors
* Build a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, and quality ownership within the inspection team
* Oversee all in-process, first-piece, last-piece, and final inspection activities in the plant
* Ensure inspectors follow approved inspection plans, sampling methods, control plans, and work instructions
* Verify inspection results are recorded accurately, completely, and in a timely manner
* Ensure nonconforming material is properly identified, segregated, documented, and escalated
* Review inspection findings daily to identify repeat issues, trends, and missed opportunities for prevention
* Coordinate inspector assignments to support new launches, engineering changes, containment activity, and customer-specific requirements
* Ensure inspection coverage is aligned with production schedules, critical operations, and customer risk
* Standardize inspection methods and judgment criteria across all inspectors to improve consistency
* Audit inspector performance on the floor to confirm compliance with procedures and standard work
* Drive timely communication of defects and quality concerns to production supervision and other stakeholders
* Serve as the primary point of contact for inspector-related quality issues on the production floor
* Escalate significant quality concerns to quality management, engineering, production leadership, and other functions as needed
* Ensure smooth communication between shifts so open issues, suspect material, and containment actions are handed off effectively
* Lead response coordination when inspectors identify major nonconformances or process deviations
* Support daily production meetings by providing inspection status, quality issues, and staffing updates
* Partner with manufacturing leaders to resolve conflicts related to product acceptance or inspection disposition
* Train inspectors on defect recognition, inspection techniques, measurement methods, documentation, and escalation procedures
* Maintain training records and verify inspectors are qualified for assigned areas and tasks
* Assess inspector competency through observation, layered audits, and periodic verification checks
* Update inspectors on revised procedures, engineering changes, customer requirements, and quality alerts
* Promote standard work and consistency in how inspections are performed and documented
* Track inspector productivity, accuracy, error rates, and compliance to standard work
* Monitor department KPIs related to inspection effectiveness, escapes, rework, scrap, and response time
* Investigate inspection misses,…