Production Supervisor

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 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.

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