Weekend Shift Production Supervisor

Beretta USA Corporation•Gallatin, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Weekend Production Supervisor leads weekend manufacturing operations in a discrete manufacturing environment involving CNC machining, secondary operations, assembly, inspection, and material flow. The role provides hands-on leadership to ensure safe, disciplined, and efficient execution of the production schedule while supporting quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement objectives. It requires a strong shop-floor presence, practical manufacturing knowledge, production-control discipline, and timely decision-making with limited off-shift support. The position works closely with Production Control, Materials, Quality, Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, and EHS. The schedule is Friday through Sunday, 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Flexibility may be required to support training, shift handoffs, overtime coverage, special builds, inventory activities, or urgent production needs. The role operates primarily on a manufacturing floor and may require additional hours as business needs dictate.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.
Three to five years of experience in a discrete manufacturing environment; CNC machining, assembly, inspection, material flow, or related production operations are preferred areas of experience.
Prior experience leading hourly production employees, team leads, technicians, or operators in a multi-shift or off-shift manufacturing environment.
Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, work orders, routings, bills of material, inventory transactions, production and labor reporting, and schedule execution.
Ability to read and interpret work instructions, production schedules, drawings, routings, quality requirements, and manufacturing documentation.
Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality discipline, standard work, 5S, lean manufacturing, visual management, and structured problem solving.
Ability to work independently during weekend operations, make sound decisions, communicate clearly, and escalate appropriately when support resources are limited.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Outlook and Excel, and ability to prepare clear shift reports and production updates.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree, technical certification, or bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, Business, or a related field.
Experience supervising weekend, night-shift, compressed-workweek, or high-overtime manufacturing operations.
Experience in precision machining, firearms, durable goods, industrial products, or other regulated or quality-sensitive discrete manufacturing environments.
Familiarity with dispatch reports, shortage reports, capacity plans, WIP reports, kanban cards, backflush transactions, and schedule-attainment dashboards.
Lean, Six Sigma, supervisory leadership, OSHA, or APICS/CPIM-related training.
Experience supporting new product introductions, engineering changes, cycle-time improvements, line balancing, productivity improvements, or overtime-reduction initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead weekend machining and assembly teams in safely executing the approved production schedule and following standard work, quality requirements, and company policies.
Maintain an active shop-floor presence by coaching operators, resolving barriers, reinforcing expectations, and promoting accountability, urgency, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Verify labor readiness, staffing, work orders, materials, tooling, fixtures, gauges, inspection requirements, and equipment readiness before and during shifts.
Monitor schedule attainment, output, earned hours, labor utilization, downtime, scrap, rework, first-pass yield, quality holds, and safety performance.
Coordinate with Production Control, Materials, and weekday supervisors to prioritize, release, stage, transact, and communicate weekend work.
Escalate constraints affecting safety, quality, delivery, or cost, including shortages, downtime, tooling issues, defects, absenteeism, staffing gaps, and unclear priorities.
Ensure accurate and timely ERP/MRP transactions, work-order and labor reporting, move transactions, scrap reporting, material returns, and production completion activities.
Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for production misses, recurring defects, downtime, schedule disruptions, and material-flow issues.
Partner with Quality to ensure first-piece approvals, in-process checks, containment, nonconforming material handling, and final inspection requirements are followed.
Partner with Maintenance and Manufacturing Engineering to address machine, tooling, fixture, process, and equipment issues.
Reinforce safety requirements, PPE, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, ergonomic practices, housekeeping, 5S, and incident reporting.
Prepare shift handoff notes covering completed work, open issues, staffing and quality concerns, downtime, shortages, and recommended follow-up actions.
Review the weekend production plan and validate readiness of work orders, routings, quantities, priorities, materials, tooling, and inspection requirements.
Understand schedules, dispatch lists, capacity constraints, takt or rate requirements, changeover priorities, finite resources, and the relationship between daily output and monthly build plans.
Monitor schedule adherence and make practical recovery decisions when actual output differs from plan.
Coordinate with Production Control or Planning to clarify priorities when work orders, shortages, engineering changes, hot jobs, or customer-impacting orders require tradeoffs.
Maintain accurate production transactions so MRP, inventory, WIP, shortage reporting, labor performance, and operational metrics remain reliable.
Identify shortages, late starts, excess WIP, missing components, incorrect quantities, routing errors, and transaction gaps; escalate or correct them using established procedures.
Support kanban, point-of-use replenishment, staging, kitting, line-side inventory, and material-flow controls where applicable.
Provide Planning, Materials, and Operations with factual feedback on schedule feasibility, capacity risks, labor and machine constraints, and recurring causes of missed attainment.