Production Supervisor

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for safety of employees, plant housekeeping and 6s, meeting daily production requirements and on-time shipping of high-quality parts that meet customer expectations, while continuously improving manufacturing operations. Directly supervises team leaders, production associates, die set-up, and material handlers on the backshift.   This position requires shift flexibility with the ability to work off-shift hours including 1st,  2nd or 3rd shift. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure daily line staffing is sufficient to meet production and deliver requirements.


• Ensures compliance to all rules, regulations and policies. Immediately documents, communicates and corrects violations or unsafe conditions; treats all direct reports equally with respect and compassion.


• Ensures compliance to visual management controls. Hour-by-hour performance tracking, KANBAN pull systems, Line OEE, scrap trends and improvement actions, downtime tracking and improvement actions, 6S audits trend and improvement actions.


• Ensures employee compliance to part and process operating standards and standards work requirements. Immediately corrects non-conformance to procedure and issues identified Layered Process Audits (LPA).


• Monitors hourly performance for each production line. Coordinates with Team Leader and other support function as needed to immediately correct off-target line performance.


• of unplanned downtime, excessive scrap or risk of not meeting schedule/order requirements.


• Reviews line performance (safety, productivity, scrap, customer concerns, 6S). Discuss and initiate countermeasures for off-target performance. Follow-up on associates needs and concerns as it relates to production needs.


• Reviews schedule and order requirements for each production line. Communicates with prior and later shift supervision on schedule/order status as well as known priorities. Notifies FFM of unplanned downtime, excessive scrap or risk of not meeting schedule/order requirements per downtime escalation procedure.


• Works extended hours when required, including weekends.


• Other duties as assigned

Required Experience, Education, Skills, and Abilities for Consideration as a Candidate:

• High school diploma or GED Equivalent


• 3-years manufacturing experience


• 3-5 years prior supervisory or team leadership responsibility in a manufacturing environment.


• Ability to be self-directed and motivated to achieve manufacturing excellence in assigned area – drive for results


• Ability to conduct independent root cause analysis /5 Whys


• Ability to hold employees accountable for their performance in a fair, consistent, and respectful manner


• Ability to interpret data and clearly present conclusions and identify required improvement actions


• Ability to maximize manpower and utilization in fast-paced manufacturing environment


• Ability to utilize creativity and innovative thinking to implement solutions to problems


• Demonstrates personal ownership and accountability for safety and production performance


• Functional knowledge of shop floor and order management systems, both ERP (Oracle) and visual management.


• Functional knowledge of an ERP systems (D365 preferred)


• Functional knowledge of core Lean Manufacturing principles, including Kaizen events


• Strong inter-personal, communication and organizations skills


• Strong leadership skills and the ability to direct, motivate and lead by example


• Working knowledgeable of OSHA regulations/requirements, ISO/TS 16949, ISO9001

Preferred or Additional, Experience, Education, Skills and Abilities:

• 1+ years automotive manufacturing experience


• 1+ years supervisory experience in automotive manufacturing environment


• Poses AS or BS level degree


• Accountability


• Communication


• Creative Problem Solving


• Customer Focus


• Drive for Results


• Experience using ERP (Oracle or D365),


• Experience using HRIS systems / Timekeeping System (Workday)


• Interpersonal Relationships


• Lean Manufacturing experience

Physical Requirements of this Position

In an average workday, the employee primarily performs: 

☒   Sedentary Work:  Lifting 10 lbs. Maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers and small tools.  Although a sedentary job is defined as one which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties. Repetitive motion of hand and finger movement to manually input data using a keyboard may be required for up to eight hours a day.  Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and other sedentary criteria are met.

☐   Medium Work:  Lifting 50 lbs. Maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of object weighing up to 25 lbs.

☐   Heavy Work:  Lifting 100 lbs. Maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of object weighing up to 50 lbs.

Visual Acuity Requirements of this position including color, depth perception and field of vision:

☐     Close Vision:  Clear vision at 20” or less.

☐      Distance Vision:  Clear vision at  20’ or more.

☒    Peripheral Vision:  Ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point.

☐    Depth Perception:  Three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships.

☐    Ability to Adjust Focus:  Ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.

☐    No special vision requirements.

Select the level of noise that is typical in the work environment for this job:

☐   Quiet conditions: (Examples: private office)

☐   Moderate noise: (Examples: business office with computer printers, light traffic, test and clean room environments)

☒   Loud noise:  (Examples: normal manufacturing conditions, fork truck and maintenance departments)

☐   Very loud noise:  (Examples:  jack hammer work and areas that exceed 85dB)

Work Environment