What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Supervisor position at HBD Industries?
Position Summary
Thermoid is seeking a driven Production Supervisor to lead daily operations and ensure seamless production flow. In this role, you’ll plan and organize workflows, set clear objectives, and inspire your team to consistently achieve 95% on-time delivery—collaborating closely with sales, purchasing, quality, and engineering to maintain the highest standards of safety and quality.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Follow and enforce safety policies, ensure safety issues are addressed in a timely fashion, provide safety training and champion the safety program for the site
- Partner with purchasing, engineering and quality to schedule production activities to ensure > 95% on-time delivery and warranty rates at < 0.5% cost of sales
- Lead daily production team meetings and maintain departmental day-to-day production activities, monitor production, and prioritize workflow and schedules to maximize capacity plan for work cells
- Manage the hiring, performance management, coaching and training for all direct reports to support employee development, improve cross-training and drive accountability
- Build and maintain routings for products in the ERP system to constantly validate and improve daily shop scheduling practices
- Identify opportunities for improvement related to safety, quality, on time delivery and cost, and develop & implement processes and/or process improvements to address gaps
Experience and Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Operations Management, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- At least 3 years of experience with direct responsibility for production in manufacturing
- At least 3 years of Supervisory experience
- At least 1 year of experience working with an MRP or ERP system
- Demonstrated experience with Continuous Improvement tools & structured Problem-Solving processes preferred
Technical Skills
- Advanced level of proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Able to demonstrate leadership and coaching abilities
HBD Industries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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