Production Supervisor (Direct Hire)
Dayton, OH
Job Requisition: 7562
Description for Production Supervisor:
The Production Supervisor oversees daily departmental operations to ensure a safe, efficient, and productive work environment for 3rd shift. This role guides the team in meeting production goals, maintaining product quality, and adhering to company policies and safety regulations. The supervisor plans workloads, assigns responsibilities, and interprets specifications, schedules, and blueprints to keep work flowing smoothly. They monitor processes, recommend improvements to methods and equipment, and address work-related issues as they arise. The position also requires maintaining accurate production, time, and inventory records, coordinating with other supervisors, and completing reports such as scrap, hold tags, and performance documentation. Overall, the supervisor leads the department in achieving operational targets while fostering a positive and compliant workplace.
Responsibilities for Production Supervisor:
- Suggest changes in working conditions and use of equipment to improve safety, quality and productivity within the department
- Assist in the interpretation of company policies to promote and enforce safety regulations
- Lead department in a manner that creates a positive working environment for all employees
- Oversee plans to motivate and achieve departmental goals
- Responsible for product quality to specifications and for all production processes within the department
- Responsible for workload planning of direct reports
- Understand and apply ISO Quality System Standards
- Assist in the interpretation of specifications, blueprints, and job orders/schedules and assigns responsibilities
- Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance and quality of product
- Analyze and resolve work problems, or assists in solving work problems
- Maintain time and production records as required
- Confer with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments
- Responsible for inventory accuracy within department
- Report scrap, hold tag, daily production, appraisals, disciplines and other required documents in a timely manner
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizer’s policies, labor agreement and applicable laws
Requirements for Production Supervisor:
- Associates degree from a two year college or technical school preferred
- 3 to 5 years related experience and/or education, training considered equivalent
- Ability to be careful about details and thorough in completing work tasks
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions with others
- Ability to demonstrate professional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to be personally connected to others on the job, maintain a professional demeanor with a positive attitude
- Ability to function independently, guiding oneself with little or no supervision and depending on oneself to get things done
- Knowledge of safety and security procedures and how to use equipment and determine necessary action
- Ability to be open to change with excellent organizational and time management skills
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts
Physical Demands for Production Supervisor:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, walk, reach with hands or arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell and use hands to touch, handle, or feel
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- Travel - 0-15% typical
