Production Supervisor

About the role

The AVIRE team is seeking a driven, technically capable Production Supervisor to lead daily production execution in our Sussex, Wisconsin plant. This role reports to the Operations Manager for the Wisconsin Plant and translates daily production priorities into clear cell-level execution, monitoring operational metrics, and ensuring customer orders are produced safely, accurately, and on time in full at required quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily production execution across all assembly cells, ensuring work is prioritized, staffed, staged, and completed to meet safety, quality, output, productivity, and OTIF expectations.
• Translate the production plan into clear daily priorities for Assemblers, including work order sequencing, resource allocation, changeovers, and issue follow-up.
• Monitor and respond to operational metrics including OTIF, schedule attainment, labor efficiency, first-pass quality, rework, scrap, productivity, shortages, and aging work orders.
• Identify, document, and escalate material shortages, production constraints, non-conformances, test failures, equipment issues, and process gaps to the other departments as appropriate for support and resolution.
• Lead Production Assemblers to maintain standard work, quality checks, testing discipline, 6S standards, and consistent use of ERP transactions including job creation, parts issuing, labor reporting, and work order status updates.
• Develop, coach, and support Production Assemblers through clear expectations, daily feedback, cross-training, onboarding, performance follow-up, and individual development planning.
• Support a practical continuous improvement mindset by escalating issues, help validate root causes, support countermeasures, and ensure improvements are sustained through standard work and team training.
• Communicate production status clearly during daily tier meetings, operational reviews, and cross-functional follow-ups.
• Ensure compliance with safety requirements, company policies, work instructions, and local standards while maintaining a clean, organized, and respectful production environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ace in action-oriented curiosity: Ready to tackle challenges and seize new opportunities. A track record of delivering on projects. Focuses on solving the most pressing problems and encourages the organization to continuously improve.
• Collaboration: Embraces diverse perspectives and actively engages with team members to achieve the best outcomes.
• Empowerment: Thrives in environments where decisions are made, and you are encouraged to take initiative. Takes responsibility for your actions and delivers on commitments.
• Inclusion: Treats everyone with respect and fosters an inclusive culture.

Job Skills

• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to coach, train, motivate, and develop hourly production team members.
• Strong technical understanding of electro-mechanical assembly and product testing.
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply work instructions, drawings, bills of material, test procedures, production schedules, and ERP information.
• Experience using operational metrics such as OTIF, schedule adherence, labor efficiency, productivity, first-pass yield, scrap, rework, and shortages to manage daily performance.
• Practical problem-solving capability with the judgement to resolve issues at the floor level or escalate quickly to the right functional owner.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across other departments including Logistics, Purchasing, Quality, Technical Support, and Operations.
• Experience with Lean, 6S, standard work, visual management, cross-training, and continuous improvement tools desirable.