Production Supervisor Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, engineering, or accounting, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in production planning or inventory control in a manufacturing environment.
• At least 2 years of leadership or supervisory experience.
• Working knowledge of MRP, inventory management, bills of material, and routings in an ERP system.
• Understanding of lot sizing, including EOQ and order minimums or multiples; safety stock; reorder points; kanban/JIT replenishment; capacity planning; and cycle-counting practices.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications, including advanced Excel skills such as pivot tables, lookups, and working with large data sets.
• Ability to lead, train, and develop a team and establish and maintain clear standards.
• Ability to manage multiple changing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work effectively with personnel at all levels, customers, and suppliers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated analytical ability, including the ability to turn data into decisions.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and highly organized.
• Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment.
• Ability to travel occasionally, but not frequently, to the Ohio and Texas plants as needed.
• Ability to lift 25 pounds with or without accommodations.
• May need to climb stationary ladders to perform cycle counts in production areas.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in sheet metal fabrication, stamping, welding, or assembly manufacturing.
• Experience with Infor CloudSuite Industrial/Syteline.
• APICS/ASCM certification, such as CPIM or CSCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead Production Planning and Inventory Control for three Midwest plants; directly supervise Tennessee planning and cycle-counting staff and provide process direction to Ohio and Texas planners.
• Hire, train, coach, and set performance expectations for team members.
• Apply planning, scheduling, and inventory-management techniques to maintain production and inventory plans, continuously improve processes, and standardize practices across plants.
• Manage the inventory plan by analyzing demand and production information and setting planning parameters, including lot sizes, order minimums and multiples, days of supply, safety stock, reorder points, and kanban levels; report planned and actual inventory levels and turns monthly.
• Manage weekly capacity planning and reporting by comparing demand with staffed departmental capacity, setting weekly capacity expectations, planning necessary overtime or downtime, and creating schedules that meet customer demand and inventory plans.
• Oversee inventory control, including the cycle-counting program, count-accuracy reporting, inventory adjustments, root-cause correction, and support for month-end and physical inventory activities with Accounting.
• Maintain MRP data integrity, including item masters, bills of material, routings, and planning parameters; optimize MRP output and improve scheduling and dispatch methods to meet inventory, production-efficiency, and on-time-delivery goals.
• Supervise and assist with releasing manufacturing work orders and production schedules, updating them as needed, monitoring schedule attainment, past-due work and material shortages, and expediting as required.
• Analyze historical material variance and production-efficiency data; work with Manufacturing on improvements and with Accounting and Operations to ensure standards are correct.
• Coordinate with Purchasing, Production, Engineering, Quality, Shipping, and Sales to achieve customer delivery dates and resolve material shortages.
• Supervise and assist with work-in-process variances at the work-order level; work with Manufacturing to ensure timely, accurate material-management and reporting practices, including job reporting, material issues, and job close-out.
• Manage changes to work-in-process jobs at the work-order level.
• Assess engineering change-order impacts and execute changes as required, including revision changeovers and obsolete-inventory exposure.
• Develop and maintain key performance measures, including inventory turns, cycle-count accuracy, material variance, production on-time performance, and material shortages, and use them to drive improvement.
• Assist with special projects such as new product or customer ramp-up plans, work transfers between plants, and ERP and reporting improvements.
• Perform additional duties and responsibilities as business needs require.

Benefits

• Choice of two health insurance plans, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Employer-paid employee dental insurance, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Employer-paid life insurance, AD&D, and long-term disability plans, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Vision insurance, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Additional life insurance, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Accident insurance, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Critical illness insurance, eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• Federal health and dependent care savings accounts (FSA), eligible the first of the month after 30 days.
• 401(k) plan with employer match, eligible after 6 months.
• Tuition reimbursement, eligible after 6 months.
• PTO accrual: 80 hours in the first year, increasing with length-of-service milestones; eligible after 6 months.
• 80 holiday hours per year, eligible after 6 months.
• Quarterly employee appreciation events, holiday parties, cookouts, company gifts, and other employee events and recognition programs.