DescriptionThe Production Supervisor is responsible for coordinating sales, design, production, fabricating, warehouse, and shipping activities to ensure timely and accurate completion of customer orders in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This position oversees specialty product projects from inception through delivery, ensuring production schedules, quality standards, customer specifications, and operational deadlines are met.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage specialty product projects and serve as the primary point of contact.
- Define project deliverables, coordinate internal and external production timelines, communicate status updates, and follow up to keep projects on schedule.
- Supervise specialty product production from inception through delivery, including inspection of materials, equipment, and assembly processes.
- Develop and maintain project management tools and recommend cost-saving alternatives to improve productivity, efficiency, and customer value.
- Coordinate with sales, design, warehouse, production, fabricating, and shipping teams to communicate customer and product requirements.
- Ensure completed orders meet customer specifications, quality standards, and design-structure requirements.
- Investigate and resolve escalated customer concerns related to product quality.
- Participate in production meetings and communicate project priorities, schedules, and progress.
- Provide effective leadership and communication to production employees and management.
- Promote a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- High school diploma or GED.
- Relevant manufacturing, production, fabricating, packaging, or closely related industrial experience.
- Previous production, fabricating, or frontline supervisory or leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production flow, quality standards, workplace safety, and deadline-driven execution.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing machinery, production methods, and operating procedures.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines, projects, and requests.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead production teams and coordinate activities across departments.
- Solid analytical skills and mechanical aptitude.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and adjust priorities as production needs change.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
Requirements:
- Ability to work full-time in a manufacturing environment.
- Ability to supervise production activities and coordinate projects from inception through delivery.
- Ability to monitor production schedules and ensure timely order completion.
- Ability to inspect materials, equipment, assembly processes, and finished products for quality.
- Ability to ensure customer specifications and design requirements are met.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with sales, design, warehouse, production, fabricating, and shipping departments.
- Ability to identify and resolve production challenges and customer quality concerns.
- Ability to communicate project updates, production priorities, and schedules to employees and management.
- Ability to identify opportunities for cost savings, productivity improvements, and operational efficiency.
- Commitment to workplace safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Nice-to Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Direct corrugated manufacturing or packaging industry experience.
- Experience with corrugated fabricating equipment and production processes.
- Approximately 7 years of corrugated manufacturing experience preferred; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered.
- Approximately 3 years of production or fabricating supervisory experience preferred; demonstrated leadership ability may be considered in place of the full experience benchmark.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing systems and shop-floor software.
- Some college coursework, technical education, or manufacturing-related training.
- Experience training and developing production employees.
- Experience with team building, performance development, and conflict resolution.
- Experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives and workplace safety processes.
- Military leadership experience combined with relevant manufacturing, maintenance, production, or industrial operations experience.
The Production Supervisor will collaborate across multiple departments, develop production teams, improve manufacturing processes, and identify opportunities to increase productivity and efficiency.
The position offers a competitive annual salary of $85,000-$95,000 and a comprehensive benefits package. 
