Production Supervisor

1st Shift Production Supervisor – Assembly & Scheduling

Location: Chicago, IL
Department: Production / Assembly

We are seeking a hands-on Production Supervisor to lead day-to-day assembly operations while managing production scheduling, labor allocation, and workflow across multiple production lines.

This position requires more than strong production knowledge. We are looking for a people-focused leader who can motivate and develop employees, build a positive team environment, and confidently address performance, attendance, and other employee related matters when necessary.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and provide hands-on leadership to a team of fewer than 20 production and assembly employees.
• Develop and execute daily and weekly production schedules across multiple assembly lines.
• Allocate employees and resources based on priorities, capacity, run rates, and material availability.
• Adjust production schedules in real time due to changing priorities, labor shortages, quality concerns, or material constraints.
• Identify orders at risk of missing scheduled ship dates and communicate issues early.
• Work closely with Sales, Customer Service, Purchasing, Material Handling, and Shipping to keep orders moving.
• Coach, motivate, train, and develop production employees.
• Address employee performance and conduct issues and administer corrective action when appropriate.
• Monitor productivity, efficiency, run rates, downtime, labor hours, rework, and production bottlenecks.
• Manage Material Handling activities, including cycle counts, inventory accuracy, and annual physical inventory.
• Coordinate Shipping activities to ensure completed orders are scheduled and picked up according to the production plan.
• Maintain a safe, clean, organized, and quality-focused manufacturing environment.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, quality, workflow, and overall throughput.

Qualifications

• 5 years of production, manufacturing, or assembly leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience with production scheduling and labor planning.
• Strong hands-on leadership skills with the ability to coach, motivate, develop, and hold employees accountable.
• Experience managing changing production priorities and resolving day-to-day floor issues.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, assembly operations, and production workflows.
• Experience identifying production bottlenecks and implementing solutions.
• Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and make sound decisions in a fast-moving production environment.

Labor Solutions, LLC is a leader in the professional, temporary, and direct hire industry throughout the Midwest area. Our clients range from individual entrepreneurs to large corporations, and while we are big enough to serve Fortune 100 companies, we are small enough to stay nimble in an always-changing market.

Thank you!