What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at Danfoss?
The Impact You'll Make
At Danfoss, you'll play a critical role in leading production teams to deliver safe, high-quality products while driving operational excellence. This position offers the opportunity to directly influence performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost, helping the business meet customer commitments and production goals.
As a Production Supervisor, you'll spend significant time on the manufacturing floor coaching employees, solving challenges, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. Your leadership will help build engaged, high-performing teams that are empowered to succeed.
If you are passionate about developing people, improving processes, and creating a safe and productive work environment, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day.
What You’ll Be Doing
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.
At Danfoss, you'll play a critical role in leading production teams to deliver safe, high-quality products while driving operational excellence. This position offers the opportunity to directly influence performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost, helping the business meet customer commitments and production goals.
As a Production Supervisor, you'll spend significant time on the manufacturing floor coaching employees, solving challenges, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. Your leadership will help build engaged, high-performing teams that are empowered to succeed.
If you are passionate about developing people, improving processes, and creating a safe and productive work environment, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact every day.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and support production team members to achieve key performance goals related to safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.
- Facilitate root cause problem solving (RCPS) and continuous improvement initiatives that remove barriers and improve operational performance.
- Coach, train, and develop employees through regular feedback, performance management, and cross-training opportunities that strengthen team flexibility and capability.
- Make staffing and work assignment decisions that optimize labor utilization, support production targets, and build high-performing teams.
- Champion 5S principles, workplace safety standards, and compliance with company policies, quality requirements, and operational procedures.
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Minimum 5 years of manufacturing experience in a production environment.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and team development experience.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
- You’ll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.