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Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Elantas North America, Inc.
Schenectady, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 10/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/17/2027

Overview
The Production Supervisor will directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, including, but not limited to: inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
  • Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, and fabricators.
  • Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments and shifts.
  • Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals across shifts, including overtime plans.
  • Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions. Observe work and monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or processing standards.
  • Conduct employee training in equipment operations or work and safety procedures or assign employee training to experienced workers.
  • Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
  • Keep records of employees' attendance and hours worked.
  • Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
  • Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.
  • Maintain operations data, such as time, production, and cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.
  • Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
  • Confer with management or subordinates to resolve employee training needs, worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
  • Set up and adjust machines and equipment.
  • Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
  • Recommend or execute personnel actions, such as hiring’s, evaluations, promotions and disciplinary actions.
  • Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas.
  • Plan and develop new products and production processes.

Requirements

  • 3 - 5 years’ experience in industrial lab or manufacturing.
  • Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
  • Delegating Responsibility - Ability to allocate authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people.
  • Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.
  • Motivation - Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
  • Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
  • Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
  • Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
  • Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions. Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
  • Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
  • Leadership - Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Communication Proficiency
  • Problem Solving/Analysis
  • Collaboration Skills Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
  • This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending kneeling, stooping, crawling and climbing all day.
  • The employee must frequently lift and move items up to 45 pounds.

Work Environment:

  • This position will operate in a professional office and application lab environment.
  • This role will require the use of standard and technical office programs as well as chemical and other volatile laboratory equipment and products
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to wear P.P.E for exposure to fumes or airborne particles, been exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration.
  • The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.
  • Minimal travel may be required
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Pay: $75,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $75,000 - $80,000

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