Customer-First Fabrication Supervisor

Fuyao; Decatur (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuyao in Decatur, IL seeks a full-time Manufacturing Supervisor to oversee daily operations, lead production hourly workers, and ensure safety, quality, and timely delivery. You will coordinate schedules, monitor workflow, and drive improvements to maximize capacity and efficiency.

Strong leadership, reliability, and a customer-first mindset are essential. The role requires planning daily activities, coordinating with quality and logistics, and training staff while maintaining documentation and

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing environment is recommended.
• Excellent leadership, organizational and communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to understand product specifications.
• Demonstrated reliability, consistent attendance, and punctuality are required.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently while leading a team.
• Commitment to a customer first mindset—ensuring quality, accuracy and on time delivery.
• Ability to work overtime is a requirement for this role.
• Lead by example, following all company rules and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise production hourly workers.
• Set an example by maintaining excellent attendance, punctuality, dependability, and professionalism.
• Plan, organize, and coordinate daily production activities to meet quality standards.
• Promote a customer first culture across the production team by emphasizing product quality, on time delivery, and responsiveness to customer needs.
• Collaborate with quality and logistics teams to ensure all products meet customer specifications and deadlines.
• Address production issues promptly to minimize any impact on customer satisfaction.
• Train, coach, and evaluate hourly workers to ensure competence and compliance with company standards.
• Monitor production processes to ensure efficiency, quality, and compliance with safety policies.
• Oversee production line operations to ensure continuous, max capacity production.
• Ensure proper documentation of output, downtime, and scrap.
• Enforce safety policies and ensure all hourly workers follow occupational health and safety regulations.
• Implement corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence of production issues.
• Coordinate and assign tasks during scheduled downtime for efficient completion of 5S.
• Identify and recommend process improvements to enhance productivity, reduce waste, and improve product quality.
• As required, prepare daily production reports, report scrap to inventory control, and send documentation to management.
• Communicate effectively with management, maintenance, technicians, and quality to ensure smooth operations.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Leadership

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Decision making

Product knowledge

Reliability

Attendance

Punctuality

Overtime willing

Self-motivation

Job description

Fuyao in Decatur, IL seeks a full-time Manufacturing Supervisor to oversee daily operations, lead production hourly workers, and ensure safety, quality, and timely delivery. You will coordinate schedules, monitor workflow, and drive improvements to maximize capacity and efficiency.

Strong leadership, reliability, and a customer-first mindset are essential. The role requires planning daily activities, coordinating with quality and logistics, and training staff while maintaining documentation and