Plant Supervisor; Dallas

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety, Health, Environment, and Compliance

• Promote a safety-first culture and ensure all employees work in compliance with company safety policies and regulatory requirements.
• Lead safety meetings, workplace inspections, hazard recognition activities, and corrective action initiatives.
• Investigate incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions and implement preventive measures.
• Ensure compliance with environmental permits, regulatory requirements, ISO standards, and company policies.
• Support and promote all Quality, Safety, Health, Environmental, and Sustainability programs.

• Direct and coordinate daily plant operations to achieve production, quality, efficiency, and cost objectives.
• Monitor and optimize furnace operations, expansion processes, packaging systems, and material handling equipment.
• Establish daily production priorities and communicate expectations to operations personnel.
• Monitor production rates, yields, downtime, quality performance, and operating costs.
• Ensure customer orders are produced and shipped according to schedule.
• Coordinate shift coverage, staffing plans, and operating schedules to support business needs.
• Develop and implement operational improvements to increase efficiency and productivity.

• Ensure all products meet established quality specifications and customer requirements.
• Monitor process controls, testing activities, and quality performance trends.
• Support root cause investigations and corrective actions related to product quality issues.
• Work closely with quality personnel to maintain compliance with internal and external quality standards.

• Partner with Maintenance to prioritize and coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Monitor equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve reliability and uptime.
• Participate in troubleshooting production and equipment issues.
• Support capital projects, equipment modifications, and process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure operational readiness of furnaces, packaging systems, screens, dust collection systems, compressors, conveyors, and material handling equipment.

• Monitor raw material, packaging material, and finished goods inventories.
• Ensure inventory accuracy through proper material tracking and reporting.
• Coordinate raw material deliveries and finished product shipments.
• Support warehouse and logistics activities to maintain customer service levels.

• Supervise, coach, train, and develop plant personnel.
• Establish clear performance expectations and provide regular feedback.
• Conduct employee performance evaluations and support employee development plans.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, communication, and employee engagement.
• Participate in recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and workforce development activities.
• Develop future leaders and strengthen workforce capabilities within the operation.

• Lead Lean Manufacturing, 6S, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Analyze operational data and identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, safety, and cost performance.
• Implement standard work practices, operating procedures, and process controls.
• Drive initiatives to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and enhance operational reliability.

• Prepare and review production, quality, safety, maintenance, and inventory reports.
• Maintain accurate operational records and documentation.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and communicate results to management.
• Assist with annual budgets, cost control initiatives, and…