Production Supervisor

About the Role

This is a critical leadership position where you'll have the power to shape culture, drive performance, and directly impact the quality and efficiency of our operations. You are the vital link between strategic goals and daily execution, leading a dedicated hourly team and fostering an environment where they can do their best work and feel empowered.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion workplace safety, proactively enforcing regulations and fostering a culture of vigilance.
• Lead and direct a team of employees to make high-quality products and meet or exceed production targets.
• Take ownership of team performance, addressing shortcomings proactively and celebrating successes.
• Prioritize critical tasks and effectively allocate human resources to maximize efficiency.
• Apply a "Bias for Action," promptly and decisively addressing safety and quality issues.
• Identify and analyze problems, develop and implement effective solutions, and make timely, well-informed decisions.
• Adapt to changing circumstances.
• Embrace a servant leadership style, focusing on building high performing, winning teams and investing in their growth.
• Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, motivating your team to achieve shared goals.
• Utilize data and insights to reduce downtime and quality defects, driving quantifiable improvements.
• Meticulously track and report employee time and attendance, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence.
• Maintain a relentless focus on identifying and eliminating inefficiencies, improving processes, and driving innovation.
• Be uncompromisingly committed to quality, implementing and maintaining rigorous standards, and relentlessly pursuing excellence.
• Proactively address and mediate conflicts fairly and effectively, facilitating mutually acceptable solutions.
• Build and maintain strong, positive working relationships with your team and all partners, including suppliers and union representatives.
• Champion accountability, managing your own performance and that of the hourly workforce regarding processes and standards.
• Ensure accountability, play fair, and meet conflict with decisive action.
• Actively listen to and value the perspectives of all team members and other department stakeholders.
• Partner with team members, the union, and management to continuously improve.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience of supervisory, manufacturing, military, or other relevant experience.
• Internship and co-op experience considered.
• Ability to work rotating shifts/hours, including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• Lean / Six Sigma methodology and / or Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP) Experience (Even better).