Job Ref: # 1995026
Date Posted: 10/29/2026
Location: Harrisonburg, VA
Salary (USD): $85,000 - $95,000
Description
The Production Supervisor is responsible for coordinating sales, design, production, fabricating, warehouse, and shipping activities to ensure timely and accurate completion of customer orders within 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 consistently met.
Responsibilities include managing specialty product projects, coordinating production timelines, communicating project requirements, and serving as a primary point of contact throughout the manufacturing process. The Production Supervisor will oversee material inspections, equipment readiness, assembly processes, and finished-product quality while ensuring compliance with customer specifications and design requirements.
Additional responsibilities include developing project management tools, identifying cost-saving opportunities, improving production efficiency, resolving escalated customer quality concerns, and participating in production planning meetings. The position requires effective collaboration across multiple departments, strong frontline leadership, and a commitment to workplace safety, accountability, employee development, and continuous improvement.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- 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, and safety procedures
- Working knowledge of production machinery, manufacturing methods, and operational procedures
- Ability to supervise and coordinate production activities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Ability to manage specialty product projects from inception through delivery
- Ability to coordinate production schedules, project timelines, and customer requirements
- Ability to communicate effectively with sales, design, warehouse, production, fabricating, and shipping departments
- Ability to review customer specifications and ensure production meets quality and design requirements
- Ability to inspect materials, equipment, assembly processes, and finished products for quality
- Ability to identify production issues and implement effective corrective actions
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and customer requests simultaneously
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and communicate effectively with production employees and management
- Strong analytical skills and mechanical aptitude
- Ability to troubleshoot manufacturing and production-related challenges
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency, and operational performance
- Ability to develop and maintain project tracking tools and production documentation
- Ability to address escalated customer concerns related to product quality
- Ability to participate in production meetings and communicate project status, priorities, and schedules
- Strong commitment to workplace safety, quality, teamwork, and accountability
- Ability to work effectively under pressure in a deadline-driven manufacturing environment
- Authorized to work in the United States
Requirements:
- Ability to work full-time in a manufacturing facility
- Ability to work the assigned production shift once confirmed
- Ability to oversee production activities and maintain adherence to manufacturing schedules
- Ability to coordinate multiple departments to ensure accurate and timely order completion
- Ability to monitor production quality and ensure compliance with customer specifications
- Ability to support safe working practices and established manufacturing procedures
- Ability to manage competing priorities and respond to changing production requirements
- Ability to communicate effectively with production personnel, management, and other departments
- Ability to investigate and resolve production and customer quality issues
- Ability to maintain accurate project information, production updates, and related documentation
- Ability to support a culture of continuous improvement, teamwork, and accountability
Nice-to Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- 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
- Experience supervising manufacturing employees in a corrugated, packaging, or related production environment
- Experience coordinating specialty packaging or custom-manufactured product projects
- Experience with 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, employee performance development, and conflict resolution
- Experience implementing continuous improvement initiatives
- Experience improving manufacturing productivity, production flow, and operational efficiency
- Experience supporting workplace safety programs and safety-process improvements
- Experience identifying cost-saving opportunities within manufacturing operations
- Experience coordinating production schedules across multiple departments
- Experience managing quality concerns and implementing corrective actions
- Military leadership experience combined with relevant manufacturing, maintenance, production, or industrial operations experience
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