Production Supervisor - 12HR Nights

Lead the floor, drive results, and build the team in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role balances safety, quality, and productivity while overseeing daily operations and people leadership.

About the Role

The Production Supervisor leads, coaches, and develops production employees while ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality execution of print manufacturing operations. This role oversees day-to-day production activities, ensures adherence to customer specifications and schedules, and partners closely with the Production Shift Manager to meet delivery, quality, and cost objectives. The Production Supervisor fosters a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise production employees by interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, assigning work, monitoring performance, and addressing employee relations matters in accordance with company policies and labor requirements.
• Ensure a safe work environment by enforcing safety regulations, conducting regular safety observations, and addressing hazards or unsafe behaviors promptly.
• Plan and adjust staffing levels to meet production schedules, customer mail dates, and workload fluctuations while maintaining labor efficiency.
• Review job documentation, signoffs, and quality checks to ensure printed materials meet customer specifications, postal requirements, and internal quality standards.
• Monitor production schedules and labor hours, estimating and tracking time required to complete jobs and escalating risks to schedule adherence as needed.
• Communicate production performance and personnel issues to leadership, including efficiency and waste reduction.
• Identify and recommend improvements to production methods, workflows, equipment utilization, and quality processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste.
• Analyze and resolve operational issues, providing guidance and support to employees to overcome production, quality, or equipment-related challenges.
• Motivate and engage employees through effective communication, recognition, coaching, and accountability to achieve performance goals.
• Lead and perform 6S audits within company timelines, ensuring work areas, equipment, and materials remain compliant throughout each shift.
• Conduct daily production floor walks to perform continuity audits, monitor job progress, and reinforce standard work practices.
• Maintain accurate time, attendance, and production records, ensuring proper reporting of labor and job data.
• Collaborate with other supervisors and department leaders to coordinate interdepartmental activities and resolve production constraints.
• Facilitate and actively participate in cost center meetings, sharing performance results, improvement initiatives, and key operational updates with teams.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent combined with five (5) plus years’ experience in production management, required.
• Associates degree/technical degree in production planning, operational management, graphic design, or related field and/or five plus years of related experience including supervision and/or training in manufacturing, strongly preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of print production processes, including press operations, bindery/finishing, materials, and workflow, strongly preferred.
• Basic understanding of Lean manufacturing principles, including 6S, setup reduction (QCO), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
• Familiarity with postal regulation, mail sortation, and quality requirements is a plus.

Skills

• Strong ability to analyze problems, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and organize work to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, train, and develop production employees.
• Excellent written, verbal, and listening skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across shifts and departments.
• Computer proficiency, including production tracking systems, timekeeping, and basic reporting tools.
• Proficiency in English (written and verbal); secondary language (e.g., Spanish) is a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 100% employer-paid life insurance.
• 100% employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Other voluntary employee benefits (e.g., accident and critical illness insurance).
• 401K and profit-sharing with employer match.
• Vacation, holiday, sick, and safe time (where applicable by state).

Pay

$58,000–$78,000 base pay, based on job-related skills, experience, credentials, role scope, and location. Candidates outside the posted range are encouraged to apply, as qualifications and market factors may influence compensation.

Schedule

12-hour night shift: 6:00 PM – 6:00 AM (Purple Night Shift).

Work Environment and Physical Demands

The role operates in a manufacturing environment with moderate to loud noise levels. The employee is frequently exposed to normal to moderate working conditions, including machinery, moving parts, airborne particles (e.g., paper dust), and hazardous materials or fumes, which may require the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Regularly required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl for extended periods.
• Must be able to lift 70 lbs or more at a time.
• Requires close-up vision abilities and the ability to talk or hear.
• May be exposed to adverse weather conditions, extended seasonal hours, high or precarious places, and confined spaces.
• Hearing protection may be required in some work environments.
• Must maintain alertness to meet deadlines, including extended seasonal hours.

About the Company

Nahan is a family-founded, full-service direct marketing company with over 60 years of experience, delivering award-winning results. Rooted in innovation and insight, Nahan prioritizes people—both employees and clients—while maintaining the highest levels of quality. The company specializes in personalized and customized marketing solutions, ensuring messages feel personal while keeping processes simple. Nahan’s success is built on proof, not promises, consistently delivering performance, growth, and big wins for marketers.