Production Supervisor
Sloomoo Institute · New York, NY · 3 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day production operations, ensuring efficiency, quality, and consistency of all products.
- Ensure production schedules align with store demand, experience traffic, and e-commerce needs.
- Maintain high standards of safety, cleanliness, and organization across the production facility.
- Monitor and control product quality, ensuring all slime meets brand standards.
- Oversee and verify all incoming and outgoing pallets and prevent discrepancy.
- Design and optimize production workflows for efficiency and scalability.
- Ensure proper issuing and receiving of materials against purchase orders.
- Receive deliveries.
- Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and supervise a team of production staff (5–15 team members).
- Support hiring, onboarding, and training to build a multi-skilled and high-performing team.
- Create schedules that optimize coverage, productivity, and team retention.
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and motivating work environment.
- Ensure proper workstation setup, material flow, and task allocation.
- Reduce bottlenecks and downtime through continuous improvement.
- Inventory & Fulfillment
- Partner with inventory and retail teams to ensure optimal stock levels across all channels.
- Oversee e-commerce fulfillment, ensuring orders are accurate and delivered on time.
- Executing inventory tracking procedures, cycle count, shelf audits, and real time updates into Acumatica to maintain inventory levels.
- Support forecasting and production planning to meet demand without overproduction.
- Performance & Efficiency
- Track production metrics, labor costs, and output to ensure operational efficiency.
- Identify and implement process improvements to increase productivity and quality.
- Support budget management by aligning labor and production costs with sales performance.
- Collaboration & Communication
- Work closely with the Production Manager and cross-functional teams to align priorities.
- Communicate operational updates, challenges, and solutions effectively.
- Respond proactively to operational challenges, ensuring minimal disruption to production.
- 3+ years of experience in production, manufacturing, restaurant, or operations management.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proficient in leading and managing a team of 5-15 team members.
- Experience in product manufacturing and forecasting.
- Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Slack, Project Management Systems (Asana or similar).
- Familiarity with scheduling software and payroll systems.