Production Supervisor
Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 9218379
Date Posted: 10/29/2026 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Harrisonburg, VA
Salary: $28 - $34
Description
Go to end ⇓The Production Supervisor is responsible for coordinating sales, design, production, fabricating, warehouse, and shipping activities to ensure timely and accurate completion of customer orders in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This position oversees specialty product projects from inception through delivery, ensuring production schedules, quality standards, customer specifications, and operational deadlines are met.
- Manage specialty product projects and serve as the primary point of contact.
- Define project deliverables, coordinate internal and external production timelines, communicate status updates, and follow up to keep projects on schedule.
- Supervise specialty product production from inception through delivery, including inspection of materials, equipment, and assembly processes.
- Develop and maintain project management tools and recommend cost-saving alternatives to improve productivity, efficiency, and customer value.
- Coordinate with sales, design, warehouse, production, fabricating, and shipping teams to communicate customer and product requirements.
- Ensure completed orders meet customer specifications, quality standards, and design-structure requirements.
- Investigate and resolve escalated customer concerns related to product quality.
- Participate in production meetings and communicate project priorities, schedules, and progress.
- Provide effective leadership and communication to production employees and management.
- Promote a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- High school diploma or GED.
- Relevant manufacturing, production, fabricating, packaging, or closely related industrial experience.
- Previous production, fabricating, or frontline supervisory or leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production flow, quality standards, workplace safety, and deadline-driven execution.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing machinery, production methods, and operating procedures.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines, projects, and requests.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead production teams and coordinate activities across departments.
- Solid analytical skills and mechanical aptitude.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and adjust priorities as production needs change.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
- Ability to work full-time in a manufacturing environment.
- Ability to supervise production activities and coordinate projects from inception through delivery.
- Ability to monitor production schedules and ensure timely order completion.
- Ability to inspect materials, equipment, assembly processes, and finished products for quality.
- Ability to ensure customer specifications and design requirements are met.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with sales, design, warehouse, production, fabricating, and shipping departments.
- Ability to identify and resolve production challenges and customer quality concerns.
- Ability to communicate project updates, production priorities, and schedules to employees and management.
- Ability to identify opportunities for cost savings, productivity improvements, and operational efficiency.
- Commitment to workplace safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Direct corrugated manufacturing or packaging industry experience.
- Experience with corrugated fabricating equipment and production processes.
- Approximately 7 years of corrugated manufacturing experience preferred; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered.
- Approximately 3 years of production or fabricating supervisory experience preferred; demonstrated leadership ability may be considered in place of the full experience benchmark.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing systems and shop-floor software.
- Some college coursework, technical education, or manufacturing-related training.
- Experience training and developing production employees.
- Experience with team building, performance development, and conflict resolution.
- Experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives and workplace safety processes.
- Military leadership experience combined with relevant manufacturing, maintenance, production, or industrial operations experience.




















