Production Supervisor (Day Shift)

About the role

The Production Supervisor oversees shift performance, focusing on safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and waste. They lead daily shift startup, execution, and handoff to ensure consistency across all shifts. Key responsibilities include monitoring run rates and output, identifying and addressing downtime, driving adherence to standard work and GMP requirements, ensuring product quality, partnering with maintenance, enforcing safety standards, leading employee development, ensuring proper staffing, driving labor efficiency, and maintaining accurate reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own shift performance, including safety, quality, throughput, labor efficiency, and waste
• Lead daily shift startup, execution, and handoff to ensure consistency across all shifts
• Actively manage line performance in real time, including:
• Making sure run rates and output are monitored
• Identifying and addressing downtime
• Escalating issues quickly when needed
• Ensuring adherence to standard work, operating procedures, and GMP requirements
• Ensuring all products meet defined quality standards, including weight, appearance, and packaging requirements
• Partnering closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment uptime and rapid response to issues
• Enforcing safety standards and ensuring compliance with all EHS requirements
• Leading and developing front-line employees through coaching, accountability, and clear performance expectations
• Ensuring proper staffing and positioning of employees to meet production targets
• Driving labor efficiency and minimizing waste, including material giveaway and rework
• Conducting daily communication with team members, including:
• Shift huddles
• Clear expectations for performance
• Feedback on results
• Supporting and driving continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, and productivity
• Maintaining accurate and timely reporting of shift performance, including downtime, output, and key KPIs
• Collaborating cross-functionally with FSQA, Maintenance, and Warehouse to ensure smooth operations
• Holding team members accountable to performance, behavior, and attendance standards
• Supporting onboarding and training of new employees to build a capable and reliable workforce

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar fields.
• Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, demonstrated by successful completion of a major improvement project.
• Ability to interface effectively with plant personnel, outside contractors, and different functional groups within the business units.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing and quality systems, finance, statistical process control, and KPI management systems.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety & quality compliance.
• Must be very effective working in a volatile and complex environment and work with a sense of urgency that drives effective results.
• Strong influence management and communication skills, ability to gain organizational buy-in
• Able to communicate and influence at all levels of an organization.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite applications
• Able to give and receive constructive feedback.
• Able to lead a team-based approach to decision making.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to get results through mentoring others.
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills.
• Experience in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry preferred.

Core Competencies

• Drive High Performance: Establishes clear accountability for outcomes. Demonstrates focus and discipline in planning and execution. Acts with speed, agility and demonstrates a sense of urgency to keep momentum.
• Collaborate: Builds and maintains strong relationships and makes commitments to others and follows through. Actively listens and communicates openly. Engages constructively in debates. Supports and executes decisions once made.
• Can-do attitude: Demonstrates a positive, solution-focused approach, actively seeks out opportunities to improve processes, and readily tackles challenges with resilience and enthusiasm. Thrives in dynamic environments and is motivated by delivering impactful results.
• Innovate: Challenges the status quo by pro-actively identifying opportunities for improvement. Encourages sharing best practices, creativity, and experimentation; learns from setbacks and adapts quickly.
• Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Exhibits precision and thoroughness, consistently producing reliable work. Demonstrates diligence in reviewing data, identifying discrepancies promptly, and ensuring adherence to high standards of quality and compliance.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and energized equipment. The noise level in the work environment varies depending on tasks.

Direct Reports

The Production Supervisor will have direct responsibility for managing the following roles: - Operations Hourly Employees

Responsible for mentoring, performance management, and development of direct reports.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.