Production Supervisor

Position Title


JOB DESCRIPTION
Production Supervisor

Category/Shift
Salaried Full-Time

• Rotating 12 hour shifts

• Responsible for supporting and fostering the safety culture, safety first mindset.
• Assess facility goals and expectations against performance standards and develop corrective action plans to close gaps.
• Manage leading indicator efforts including safe work observation process, 5S, hazard recognition and controls.
• Hold employees accountable prior to incident, and if an incident occurs for failure to follow safety policies.
• Supervise employees in the daily production, to include hands-on training, planning, assigning, and directing work.
• Evaluate employee performance; reward and discipline employees; promote safety, quality production and teamwork; and resolve conflicts.
• Lead and motivate employees by setting an example of superior behavior, attitude and performance to work efficiently and effectively.
• Effectively communicate operational information in both oral and written format at all levels: hourly employees, other supervisors, plant management, office personnel, and outside customers and vendors.
• Actively promote and ensure compliance with safety, quality and other programs and initiatives utilized within the organization.
• Work with minimum supervision, delegate, and evaluate challenges to seek out support when needed.
• Maintain necessary documentation, reports, and time approvals for direct reports.
• Perform random inspections of all quality and safety policies and procedures.
• Identify the gaps that need to be addressed to ensure our systems are effective.
• Ensure employees complete appropriate paperwork to include all downtime, runtime and setup times, documentation for production and quality purposes.
• Audit reporting systems to ensure the employees have correct data entered for any analysis that may be performed for production and waste accountability.
• Monitor raw materials to ensure the proper raw materials are being used per customer specs, if a substitution is required, complete approval documentation before converting specs.
• Physical requirements include continuously seeing, standing, walking, talking, hearing/listening, and frequently lifting up to 50lbs.
• Any other duties assigned by the leadership team.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Packaging or printing industry experience preferred.
• 2+ years of supervisory and training experience.
• Strong leadership, organizational and communication skills.