Production Supervisor Injection Molding-C-Shift

The Production Supervisor provides direct leadership for injection molding operations during their assigned shift. This role is accountable for meeting daily production targets while enforcing safety, quality, training, and policy compliance. The supervisor drives floor execution, resolves issues in real time, and ensures effective communication and smooth handoff between shifts and support functions.

Production Supervisor Injection Molding-C-Shift

Where we need you

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead daily injection molding operations to achieve production, quality, safety, and cost KPIs.
• Monitor, review, and act on shift-level performance metrics (e.g., output, scrap, downtime, labor efficiency, safety incidents) to ensure targets are met.
• Assign and manage operator staffing to support the daily production schedule, including coverage for breaks and absences.
• Coordinate with support teams (Process, Setup, Maintenance, Materials, Toolroom, Quality) to maintain flow and rapidly resolve performance gaps.
• Maintain a strong floor presence to verify execution to standard work, safety requirements, and housekeeping expectations.
• Maintain and enforce 5S standards to ensure work areas remain clean, organized, labeled, and audit-ready always.
• Ensure all required training, certifications, and OJT are completed, current, and documented.
• Review and verify production records for accuracy and Good Documentation Practices (GDP) compliance.
• Lead troubleshooting of machine excursions, defects, and process interruptions with appropriate support teams, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Hold employees accountable for performance, attendance, and policy compliance; partner with HR as needed.
• Complete labor reporting, attendance tracking, and vacation approvals in electronic systems.
• Communicate shift performance, risks, and open issues to the incoming supervisor to ensure continuity.
• Participate in continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and structured problem-solving activities.
  
  

How to convince us

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proven leadership and supervisory capability in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong decision-making, prioritization, and delegation skills.
• Effective problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Proficiency with email and manufacturing systems (ERP, training, payroll).
  
  

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of five years of manufacturing leadership related experience.
  
  

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged standing and walking throughout the facility.
• Visual acuity for inspections and process monitoring.
• Ability to lift to 15 pounds.
  
  

Work Environment:

• Manufacturing environment requires appropriate PPE.
• Exposure to elevated noise levels.
• Gowning and sanitation requirements for cleanroom operations.
  
  

What we offer

Pay: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Job Type: Full-time Benefits: 401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance Work Location: In person

Roechling Medical Rochester is an Equal Opportunity Employer. RMR does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

The Rochester location is Röchling Medical's center of excellence for the production of surgical forceps for minimally invasive electrosurgical devices and also offers a broad portfolio of plastic injection molded parts and value-added assembly work for the medical industry. With its technical expertise, the team in Rochester is able to support customers as a contract manufacturer for the entire product lifecycle from concept to complete approved medical device.

Röchling Medical is a preferred supplier and development partner to leading pharmaceutical, biotech and medical technology companies worldwide. At six locations in Germany, USA and China, we develop and manufacture tailor-made pharmaceutical packaging and administration solutions, consumables for medical diagnostics as well as sophisticated components and assemblies for medical devices under clean room conditions.

The Röchling Group has been shaping industry. Worldwide. For more than 200 years. We transform the lives of people every day with our customized plastics: they reduce the weight of cars, make medication packaging more secure and improve industrial applications. Our workforce of 11.681 people is located in the places where our customers are – in 83 locations in 25 countries.