Operations Supervisor - Servo - 1st Shift

Woodward, Inc.•Rockford, IL

1d•$85,000 - $115,000•Onsite

About The Position

Woodward's Aerospace Division at its Loves Park, Illinois campus is seeking a proactive and results-driven Operations Supervisor to lead and support its front-line team in achieving daily production goals and operational excellence. The company is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members, acting with integrity, respect, accountability, humility, and drive, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards. Woodward is dedicated to attracting the best talent and creating a rewarding workplace, fulfilling its purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions for a clean future. The company supports member wellbeing with an extensive Total Reward package.

Requirements

Leadership: The ability to guide, motivate, and inspire teams to achieve goals while fostering collaboration, accountability, and a positive work environment.
Critical Thinking: The ability to analyze situations, evaluate options, and develop effective solutions using logic, creativity, and sound judgment.
Operational Management: The ability to oversee daily operations, optimize processes, allocate resources effectively, and ensure productivity while meeting organizational goals and maintaining quality standards. Adjusts resources and priorities based on capacity, material availability, and customer demand.
Team Communication: Sets example and models excellent communication skills with internal stakeholders, support teams, and with own team.
Time Management: Ability to identify critical tasks and allocate time and resources accordingly. Balances urgent production needs with short-term improvement initiatives. Consistently meets production and delivery targets. Manages competing priorities without compromising quality or safety.
Lean Mindset: Follows lean practices such as 5S and waste reduction. Participates and support continuous improvement activities.
Team Focus: Ability to effectively lead team through 5S, Visual Management, standardized work, and Daily Management System.
Computer Skills: Strong skills in Excel, Power BI, or Tableau for operational reporting. Ability to analyze production data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities. Proficiency in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP. Basic understanding of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for inventory and production scheduling.
Emotional Intelligence: The ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions while effectively perceiving and responding to the emotions of others. This includes skills such as empathy, self-awareness, emotional regulation, social awareness, and relationship management to foster positive interactions and resolve challenges constructively.
Collaboration: Works collaboratively with team members to support overall team objectives and workflow.
Must be a U.S. Person within the meaning of ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Nice To Haves

Prior supervisory experience

Responsibilities

Provide direct support to front line team members in meeting their daily production targets to ensure customer expectations are met.
Allocates and coordinates resources effectively to meet operational objectives.
Conducts performance evaluations, provides feedback, manages member development, recognition and ensures accountability and policy adherence.
Identifies and resolves day-to-day technical and operational issues and coaching and mentoring team's problem-solving capabilities.
Collaborates with key stakeholders to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness to improve the production system and meet customer demand.
Ensures team members are trained and certified.
Builds strong cross-functional relationships and fosters a collaborative culture.

Benefits

Annual cash bonus opportunity
401(k) match (4.5%)
Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
Tuition reimbursement
Training/Professional Development opportunities
12 paid holidays
Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire
Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave
Paid parental leave
Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits
Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
Member referral bonus
Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
Voluntary benefits, including: Home / Auto Insurance discounts, Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave