Production Supervisor

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia’s market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a dynamic night shift Production Supervisor who will have a positive impact on the Operations team at its Cleburne, TX. location. The Production Supervisor will directly supervise the production and shipping operations to ensure that output is maximized at the lowest cost while maintaining safety and quality requirements.

The successful candidate will have the following Key Accountabilities:

• Understands requirements of own job and those of reports to effectively accomplish goals and objectives in a timely


• Inspire high levels of performance from peers and reports through sound


• Utilize resources effectively to maximize production, lower costs, and eliminate


• Establishes, promotes and enforces high standards for


• Ensures that company assets are used as according to their designed function for maximum


• Plan production in a manner such that a sufficient quantity of in-specification product is available for packaging and loading to meet customer order


• Present data as needed to support ideas and recommendations in written and verbal


• Plans activities to achieve personal, plant and corporate


• Complete projects in a timely


• Hands-on supervision and scheduling of all hourly production employees to meet the demands of the plant, including timecard preparations and vacation


• Identify and provide training for


• Utilizes Continuous Improvement Process to identify problems, solutions and opportunities for lasting


• Promote positive employee relations, resolve conflicts, and encourage a free flow of ideas by the use of good interpersonal


• Understands and utilizes the team concept by active participation, shared leadership, two way communication, consensus building, maintaining focus, and application of Continuous Improvement Process in the team work


• Inspires initiative in others by role modeling, acts as a self-starter and exhibits a high degree of


• Report to management: immediately, any major problem or incident occurring during a


• Set high standards for workplace safety Understand and enforce MSHA Regulations and Covia’s Corporate Health and Safety Policies and Procedures ensuring employees are properly trained and equipped to perform jobs in the safest manner. Hold regularly scheduled safety meetings with reports.


• Responsible for compliance with plant environmental permitting


• Responsible for documentation regarding, quality, consumables, safety, production, loading, shipping and


• Responsible for quality throughout the entire production, packaging, loading, and shipping process, measurable by zero customer


• Advise the Operations Manager of potential problems that might affect plant capacity to produce in a safe and/or efficient


• Initiate maintenance requests, recommend equipment and/or process changes as needed to maximize


• Supervise maintenance personnel and/or outside contractors as


• Responsible for directing the workforce to achieve a safe and healthy work environment for all employees thought effective housekeeping/elimination of


• Other duties as assigned.

The successful candidate will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required


• 3-5 years of related experience preferred


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, SharePoint

Commitment to Our Culture

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage—guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success—ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules


• Build high-performing work teams


• Focus on customers


• Demonstrate a growth mindset


• Do the right thing, always

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success.  Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality and respect within the workplace.  We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or military service or reserve or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits. 

Benefits:

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits – medical, vision, dental


• 401K with company matching


• Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays


• Disability plans and Life / AD&D


• Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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