Production Supervisor (3rd shift)

Armstrong Flooring•Johnstown, OH

20d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Supervisor is responsible, under the direction of the Operations Manager, for coordinating and supervising production and maintenance activities at Steel Ceilings’ Johnstown plant. The role oversees manufacturing performance across safety, quality, delivery, and cost, and supports continuous improvement, schedule adherence, staffing, and product development initiatives. This is a third-shift position, scheduled from 10:45 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., with possible schedule fluctuations and carry-over as customer demands require. The supervisor leads night-shift operations and manages up to 30 hourly production associates, adjusting labor across work cells according to demand and shipments. The role supports a safe, quality-focused, and productive workplace through employee engagement, coaching, training, performance management, process oversight, and collaboration with plant leaders and Quality. It also uses workforce and business systems to coordinate employee schedules, timekeeping, work orders, materials, and production activity. The position requires a high school diploma or GED, baseline proficiency with common Microsoft Office applications, experience with a timekeeping system such as Kronos, and baseline experience with an MRP or business system. The work involves a combination of office and manufacturing-floor activity. Employees must wear required personal protective equipment when entering manufacturing areas. The physical and mental demands include prolonged sitting, repetitive hand and wrist motion, analytical thinking, communication, movement between locations, and pushing, pulling, carrying, and lifting during normal travel.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Baseline knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; proficiency is a plus.
Baseline experience with Kronos or a similar timekeeping system.
Baseline experience with an MRP system or similar business system.
Basic project and job-order management skills.
Effective written and oral communication skills.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and complete multiple competing tasks.
Thorough knowledge of manufacturing system processes, including raw-material flow, project planning, and production work cells.
Working knowledge of process-improvement and corrective-action methods.
Awareness of equipment maintenance processes.
Experience planning, adjusting, and proposing production staffing levels in response to equipment and facility schedules.
Knowledge of product tagging, identification, and traceability systems.
Ability to meet the role’s physical and mental demands, including prolonged sitting, repetitive hand/wrist/finger motion, analytical work, effective communication, movement between locations, and pushing, pulling, carrying, and lifting during normal travel.
Ability to maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Nice To Haves

A two-to-four-year technical degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience in first-line supervision, emphasizing safety, quality, and throughput.
Epicor and SAP experience.
Experience with stamping presses, turret presses, or press brakes.
Sheet-metal cutting and forming experience.
Perforation-process experience.
Coil-fed process experience.
Assembly-line process experience.
CNC machine operations experience, with some G-code/M-code knowledge.
Powder paint and sublimation process experience.
Technical knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, DMAIC, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 8-Step Problem-Solving.

Responsibilities

Promote safety awareness and employee engagement, maintain good housekeeping, and reinforce safe operating procedures and behaviors.
Ensure required safety training is completed and lead safety activities, including observations, job safety analyses, safety huddles, and incident reporting and investigation.
Investigate safety incidents and quality issues, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions and lasting resolutions.
Ensure product quality and compliance with technical specifications, customer requirements, and applicable quality processes.
Audit quality systems, co-own the Non-Conforming Report process, communicate customer feedback, and partner with Quality on corrective actions.
Ensure production is completed accurately and on schedule to meet delivery commitments and customer expectations.
Supervise manufacturing processes and manage employee performance through feedback, guidance, coaching, discipline, and corrective action when appropriate.
Coordinate daily schedules and product sequencing with plant leaders, and shift labor among work cells based on demand and shipments.
Use Kronos or a similar system to assign schedules, approve time off, and ensure accurate time allocation to jobs.
Plan work orders, order and kit materials, audit work against job-plan standards, and identify special equipment requirements and safety precautions.
Recommend and implement quality, operational efficiency, and productivity improvements using Lean manufacturing principles and other process-improvement approaches.
Create and update standard work with operator involvement to reduce variation and waste.
Engage team members in productivity initiatives and develop projects or programs to improve processes.
Lead and develop talent while fostering an effective, optimistic, transparent, and collaborative work culture.
Manage night-shift operations and up to 30 hourly production associates, including schedule carry-over as needed to meet customer demands.