Production Supervisor - Casa Grande, AZ
About The Position
The Production Supervisor works at Abbott Nutrition’s manufacturing plant in Casa Grande, Arizona. The role oversees production staff and shift operations to meet customer demand and daily production requirements while maintaining quality, safety, and compliance standards. The supervisor provides day-to-day leadership to operators, supports continuous improvement, communicates production information across the workforce, and troubleshoots issues that require escalation. The role’s leadership focus is primarily on the direct-reporting group, with support from the direct manager as required, and is tactical rather than strategic. The position is accountable for compliance with FDA and OSHA requirements and Abbott policies and procedures. It requires continuous standing for prolonged periods of more than two consecutive hours in an eight-hour day.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree.
- Four years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing people.
- Manufacturing experience.
- Batch-making experience.
Responsibilities
- Oversee production staff to meet the customer demand schedule.
- Develop and routinely share information through dashboards, presentations, and meetings to keep the cross-functional workforce updated.
- Manage continuous improvement activities to increase production effectiveness.
- Develop a high-performance work team with strong morale, satisfaction, and performance.
- Provide next-level troubleshooting for issues the frontline team cannot resolve and escalate issues to engineering or management when necessary.
- Guide operator teams to improve quality and increase line productivity.
- Communicate with line personnel daily while maintaining a constant presence on the line.
- Maintain a safe work environment and ensure complete training and compliance with applicable procedures.
- Coordinate shift starts and changes and lead daily shift activities to meet requirements that affect the results of the multi-shift line.
- Manage personnel and processes to ensure production meets quality standards.
- Promote team, department, and site goals through communication, direction, and guidance.
- Participate in team and department projects and execute assigned actions.
- Track, trend, and report established KPIs, communicating accomplishments, improvement opportunities, and planned actions to the functional manager and site leadership.
- Follow escalation reporting processes and make and communicate decisions appropriate to the role’s level of accountability.
Benefits
- Career development opportunities with an international company.
- Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
- FreeU education benefit, providing a path to earning a bachelor’s degree.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
