Operations Supervisor

About the role

Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc. is seeking an experienced Operations Supervisor to lead a production area in Indianapolis, IN. This role involves serving as the primary front-line leader, managing daily operations, and ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary front-line leader for an assigned production area, providing visible shop-floor leadership, clear direction, and employee support across the full lifecycle, including onboarding, training, development, performance management, and offboarding.
• Lead daily operations to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and people objectives while ensuring production schedules, customer commitments, and operational targets are consistently met.
• Cookstaff, work assignments, overtime, equipment utilization, and material availability to support daily and weekly production requirements while balancing workforce efficiency and operational needs.
• Drive daily management systems through tier meetings, visual management, standard work, and performance reviews; monitor key metrics such as safety, schedule attainment, throughput, productivity, OEE, first-pass yield, scrap, and on-time delivery, escalating risks as needed.
• Develop and execute recovery plans to address performance gaps, quality concerns, equipment downtime, staffing shortages, or other operational constraints that could impact production performance or customer delivery commitments.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety requirements, quality standards, process specifications, training expectations, company procedures, and applicable regulatory and export-control requirements.
• Coach, develop, and hold employees accountable for performance, attendance, behaviors, and company expectations while partnering with Human Resources on employee relations matters, investigations, corrective actions, hiring, engagement, and retention initiatives.
• Lead talent development and continuous improvement efforts by driving cross-training, succession planning, Lean initiatives, root cause problem solving, and collaboration with Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance to improve process capability, equipment reliability, productivity, and overall operational performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Manufacturing, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience is required.
• A minimum of five (5) years of manufacturing experience, including meaningful experience as a supervisor, team leader, or other front-line leadership role is required.
• Aerospace, defense, advanced production, precision manufacturing, or special process experience is preferred.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Flight Deck, Daily Management, or another continuous improvement operating system is preferred.
• Previous supervisory experience in a multi-shift or 24/7 manufacturing environment is preferred.

Qualifications

• The ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and perform manual tasks for extended periods.
• The ability to safely lift and carry up to 40 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• The ability to visually inspect parts, materials, and process conditions to identify defects, damage, contamination, or other nonconforming conditions.
• The ability to wear safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, respirators, protective clothing, and other PPE as required by the task or work area.

Skills

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Effective problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Benefits

At Linde, we offer competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package. Enjoy access to health, dental, disability, and life insurance, paid holidays and vacation, 401(k) matching, pension benefits, an employee discount program, and opportunities for educational and professional growth.

Pay

$XX per hour, based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Night shift: 07:00pm to 07:30am. Training will take place on day shift.

What makes you great?

We are looking for individuals who can inspire their teams, drive innovation, and make a positive impact in our operations. If you are passionate about manufacturing, safety, and continuous improvement, we encourage you to apply.

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies, and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize, and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen, and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements, and emissions reductions.

Additional Information

Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development. We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable laws regarding employment practices.