3rd shift Production Supervisor

Parker Sporlan; Missouri; On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking a production supervisor in Missouri to lead a high‑performance team focused on safety, quality, and efficiency. You will coach employees, prioritize work, and ensure daily goals are met through structured planning and continuous improvement initiatives.

The role requires strong communication and a hands‑on leadership style. You will work with cross‑functional teams and collaborate with customers and partners to sustain excellent manufacturing performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of supervisory experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities.
• Prefer experience with lean tools and process improvement.
• Proficient MS Office applications; Power BI experience preferred.
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create a psychologically safe team culture and promote safety as a core value.
• Lead shift start-up with clear priorities and focus on safety and quality.
• Coach and develop team members; provide growth opportunities.
• Verify standard work and utilize Parker lean tools.
• Lead continuous improvement via lean Kaizen events to enhance safety, quality, delivery, cost, and engagement.
• Develop and deploy standard work and work instructions for the department.
• Conduct tiered meetings to confirm daily plans and staffing to meet goals.
• Ensure quality standards and coordinate corrective actions.

Skills

Leadership

Lean tools

MS Office

Power BI

Communication

Tools

Power BI

MSS

Timekeeping systems

Job description

In this role, you’ll champion Parker’s Corporate WIN Strategy by managing and improving the safety, quality, delivery, cost, and engagement of a high-performance production area.

You’ll develop and support your team through hands‑on leadership—training and coaching employees, assigning and prioritizing work, coaching and developing your team, building cross‑training plans, and addressing performance concerns in line with company policies. You’ll also collaborate with employees at all levels of the organization and work with customers and external partners as needed.

Scope/Supervision and Interaction:

_X__ Has Direct Reports ____ Does Not Have Direct Reports

Essential Functions:

• Create a psychologically safe team culture, promote safety as a core value, and ensure compliance with safety policies and procedures.
• Lead and facilitate the transition from home to work: set the tone at the start of each shift by ensuring team members are mentally and physically ready, clear on priorities, and focused on safety and quality.
• Know and develop your people: understand each team member’s strengths, challenges, and aspirations, and provide coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities to build capability and engagement.
• Check the Process: regularly verify the standard work is followed utilizing Parker lean tools.
• Continuous Improvement: remove barriers to performance and lead your team in identifying and implementing improvements to safety, quality, delivery, cost, and engagement through lean Kaizen events.
• Develop and deploy standard work and work instructions of assigned department(s).
• Conduct tiered-level meetings to confirm daily plans including staffing to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly goals and meeting customer expectations.
• Ensure quality standards are met that emphasize and focus on continuous improvement in an effort to improve manufacturing capability and reduce rework and scrap. Coordinate corrective action activities.
• Ensure timely and accurate time management records of all team members in Kronos.
• Hold team members accountable to adhere to company policies and procedures and provide corrective coaching as needed.
• Perform capacity analysis and determine staffing requirements for the assigned production area.
• Will lead and support a High‑Performance Team culture and foster inclusion and engagement.
• 3+ years previous supervisory experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Must have demonstrated leadership abilities.
• Prior experience with lean tools preferred.
• Proficient computer skills in MS Office required; knowledge of Power BI, MSS, time keeping systems preferred.
• Must have ability to effectively work with people in a team environment and at various levels of the organization.
• Must possess strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong leader who can effectively mentor others on knowledge and expertise.

The essential functions have been provided as examples of the type of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. The Company reserves the right to modify the work assignments and/or to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions. The job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Aff

(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

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