What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Supervisor position at Reliance One, Inc.?
Location: Grand Rapids/Kentwood, Michigan
Position Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $70,000–$95,000 annually
Position Overview
Team Leadership
Reliance One, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex—including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity—national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities.
Position Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $70,000–$95,000 annually
Position Overview
- Reliance One, Inc. is hiring an experienced Plant Supervisor for one of our established clients in the precision manufacturing industry.
- The Plant Supervisor will oversee daily CNC shop-floor operations, leading a team of operators, technicians, and laborers to achieve production, quality, safety, and delivery goals. This position is responsible for maintaining an organized and productive work environment while coordinating staffing, production schedules, equipment availability, material flow, employee training, and continuous-improvement activities.
- The ideal candidate has hands-on Swiss-style CNC machining experience, manufacturing leadership experience, and a background supporting aerospace or medical products in a highly regulated, tight-tolerance environment.
Team Leadership
- Lead, manage, and motivate shop-floor employees to maintain strong performance, teamwork, and morale.
- Establish daily production priorities and communicate expectations clearly.
- Assign work, monitor progress, and adjust staffing or resources as production needs change.
- Provide employees with coaching, performance feedback, and support.
- Promote accountability, collaboration, and respectful communication throughout the facility.
- Coordinate daily production activities to maintain an efficient flow of materials, equipment, and personnel.
- Monitor production schedules and make adjustments to address delays, machine availability, staffing concerns, or changing priorities.
- Ensure production requirements are completed safely, accurately, and on schedule.
- Collaborate with other departments to meet customer expectations and delivery commitments.
- Manage multiple production priorities in a fast-paced CNC manufacturing environment.
- Ensure products and manufacturing processes meet established quality requirements.
- Oversee inspections and identify defects, deviations, or process concerns.
- Lead or support corrective actions to address quality issues and prevent recurrence.
- Maintain required quality documentation, product traceability, and process controls.
- Support the quality and compliance expectations associated with aerospace and medical manufacturing.
- Ensure employees follow applicable procedures, work instructions, and customer requirements.
- Enforce company safety policies and applicable manufacturing safety requirements.
- Promote a proactive safety culture focused on injury prevention and employee accountability.
- Conduct safety observations, audits, and training as required.
- Investigate incidents and near misses and implement appropriate corrective actions.
- Lead 5S activities throughout the plant to improve organization, efficiency, uptime, and workplace safety.
- Maintain a clean, orderly, and optimized production environment.
- Monitor CNC machinery and production equipment to ensure reliable operation.
- Coordinate preventive maintenance, repairs, and troubleshooting activities.
- Address equipment concerns promptly to minimize unplanned downtime.
- Work with maintenance personnel, technicians, and outside service providers as needed.
- Support continuous improvement of equipment availability and operating efficiency.
- Train employees on production procedures, safety requirements, quality standards, and machinery operation.
- Ensure required training is completed accurately and on schedule.
- Develop employee capabilities through cross-training and hands-on coaching.
- Identify skill gaps and coordinate appropriate training or development.
- Build a flexible team capable of supporting changing production requirements.
- Oversee material handling, inventory control, and shop-floor storage.
- Ensure materials and supplies are available to support production schedules.
- Promote accurate inventory transactions and organized material flow.
- Reduce waste and improve the use of production space and resources.
- Track production output, efficiency, quality, downtime, safety, delivery, and employee performance.
- Prepare and present operational reports to management.
- Identify production constraints and implement timely solutions.
- Lead continuous-improvement initiatives focused on reducing waste, improving quality, increasing throughput, and minimizing downtime.
- Encourage employees to identify and recommend process improvements.
- Use operational data to establish priorities and measure results.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- At least three years of experience in a CNC manufacturing or machine-shop environment.
- At least one to two years of manufacturing supervisory or team-leadership experience.
- At least three years of hands-on CNC machining experience.
- Direct experience with Swiss-style CNC machining.
- Experience in aerospace and/or medical manufacturing.
- Understanding of the quality, traceability, documentation, and compliance requirements associated with highly regulated industries.
- Strong knowledge of shop-floor processes, CNC machinery, manufacturing equipment, and production workflows.
- Experience leading CNC machining operations in a precision, tight-tolerance environment.
- Proven ability to manage and motivate employees in a fast-paced manufacturing operation.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, production orders, technical drawings, and manufacturing documentation.
- Familiarity with manufacturing safety regulations and best practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
- Proficiency with production-management software, scheduling systems, or similar manufacturing tools.
- Associate degree or technical certification in Manufacturing, Engineering, CNC Machining, or a related field.
- Advanced experience leading Swiss-style CNC machining operations.
- Experience implementing Lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement principles.
- Experience leading 5S activities and workplace-organization initiatives.
- Familiarity with production scheduling, capacity planning, and inventory-management systems.
- Maintain production efficiency of 90% or higher.
- Support an on-time delivery rate of at least 98%.
- Maintain a production defect rate below 3%.
- Work toward zero recordable safety incidents.
- Achieve established employee-productivity targets.
- Maintain unplanned equipment downtime below 5%.
- Support an annual employee-turnover rate below 20%.
- Maintain a weekly 5S audit score of 75 or higher.
- Ensure 100% completion of required employee safety, quality, and operational training.
Reliance One, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex—including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity—national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities.
Salary : $70,000 - $95,000