What are the responsibilities and job description for the 3rd Shift Production Supervisor position at Hoffmaster?
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About The Role
The Shift Supervisor plays a critical role in leading Hoffmaster’s frontline operations. You’ll oversee production, distribution, and maintenance activities while ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency on the floor. From coaching hourly employees to driving continuous improvement initiatives, you’ll help deliver operational excellence and support the success of our manufacturing environment.
What You’ll Do
Safety – Teamwork – Customer Focus – Ownership – Initiative – Creativity
At Hoffmaster, our core values guide how we work and support each other every day. This role demonstrates Safety by ensuring compliance with standards and proactively preventing incidents, and Teamwork by collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ownership is shown through accountability for operational results, while Initiative drives continuous improvement and problem-solving on the floor. Creativity supports innovative approaches to enhance efficiency, quality, and employee engagement.
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At Hoffmaster, we believe every person deserves to feel successful. That’s why we provide a total rewards package designed to support our employee’s success –at work, at home, and in life. This includes: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurances, Tuition and Student Loan repayment assistance, Physical and Mental wellness programs, Paid vacation and holidays, Employee Assistance Program, and more. Learn more about our Benefits at HoffmasterBenefits.com!
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
About The Role
The Shift Supervisor plays a critical role in leading Hoffmaster’s frontline operations. You’ll oversee production, distribution, and maintenance activities while ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency on the floor. From coaching hourly employees to driving continuous improvement initiatives, you’ll help deliver operational excellence and support the success of our manufacturing environment.
What You’ll Do
- Oversee production, distribution, and maintenance activities to meet daily operational, quality, and customer goals.
- Ensure all employees follow Food Safety, GMP, HACCP, and company safety standards, proactively preventing workplace injuries.
- Track key metrics, identify trends, and implement action plans to improve production, efficiency, and quality.
- Assist with rollouts of new methods, tools, or equipment to reduce labor, material costs, and ergonomic risks.
- Supervise hourly employees and Group Leads, provide guidance, coach for performance, and escalate issues as needed.
- Communicate proactively with Plant Managers, CI Managers, and cross-functional teams to resolve operational concerns.
- Participate in safety, operational, and cross-functional meetings to support plant goals and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Perform other duties as assigned to flexibly support the business and meet production and customer needs.
- 5 years of manufacturing leadership experience.
- Proven team supervision skills with the ability to deliver operational objectives.
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience monitoring KPIs.
- Familiarity with ERP systems, Time & Attendance systems, and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Knowledge of Lean, Kaizen, 5S, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
- Preferred: Mechanical/technical experience, union oversight, distribution/logistics knowledge, project management experience.
Safety – Teamwork – Customer Focus – Ownership – Initiative – Creativity
At Hoffmaster, our core values guide how we work and support each other every day. This role demonstrates Safety by ensuring compliance with standards and proactively preventing incidents, and Teamwork by collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ownership is shown through accountability for operational results, while Initiative drives continuous improvement and problem-solving on the floor. Creativity supports innovative approaches to enhance efficiency, quality, and employee engagement.
#HGISalary2920
Let’s connect!
At Hoffmaster, we believe every person deserves to feel successful. That’s why we provide a total rewards package designed to support our employee’s success –at work, at home, and in life. This includes: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurances, Tuition and Student Loan repayment assistance, Physical and Mental wellness programs, Paid vacation and holidays, Employee Assistance Program, and more. Learn more about our Benefits at HoffmasterBenefits.com!
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.