EOL/Formation Supervisor – 3rd Shift

Jobtailor; Town of Springfield (WI); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Wisconsin seeks a production shift lead to guide a team toward targets and ensure customer expectations are met through leadership, supervision, and development. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and efficient operations within a fast-paced environment.

You will enforce SOPs, coach staff, and communicate departmental targets for production, safety, quality, and costs while coordinating with maintenance, EH&S and HR to keep information flowing across shifts.

Qualifications

• Lead, manage or supervise teams with a focus on safety, quality and efficiency.
• Able to coach others and mentor team members to meet targets.
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication.
• Experience using standard office software and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a production shift to meet targets and customer expectations.
• Ensure SOPs are followed with emphasis on safety and quality.
• Communicate department targets including safety, quality and costs.
• Schedule staff and manage coverage, coordinating with other departments.
• Use MRP systems to report production data and provide guidance as needed.
• Maintain relationships across production, maintenance, supply chain, EH&S, and HR.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Communication

Safety compliance

Training

Problem solving

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Technical/Associates degree or Certification

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

PowerPoint

Job description

• Working as a critical leader within a production team, support the achievement of set production targets and customer expectations by providing the appropriate level of leadership, supervision, and training/development to the people assigned within your shift and/or department.
• Ensure those under your supervision are following standard operating procedures with continual focus to their personal safety and the safety of their co-workers, and the quality of product produced being the guiding principles of the teams’ behaviors and actions.
• Understand, and effectively communicate expected department targets, to include, but not limited to production, safety, quality, cost control and operational excellence levels (KPIs).
• Monitoring as appropriate and providing instruction and counsel to employee(s) when expectations are not being met and provide recognition when set expectations are exceeded.
• Establishing work schedules and managing to planned and unplanned employee levels, providing hands-on coverage as needed, providing for, and making request of appropriate levels of support, supply and materials, and utilizing the manufacturing resource planning (MRP) systems to timely communicate production data.
• Be an active liaison to other departments/shifts to ensure proper transfer of information to production status and other key performance areas.
• Establishing effective relationships and channels of communications to immediate and next level of production management, maintenance, supply chain management, EH&S, and HR.
• Ensure compliance, for yourself and all whom you may come into contact, in all safety, environment and health processes and procedures.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent, plus 2-year technical/associates degree or certification accompanied with no less than 1 year of work experience in a lead, project manager, or supervisory role.
• A bachelor’s degree in science, production management, business management, and/or engineering, with relevant work experience within a fast-paced heavy materials, system-controlled machine and process driven work environment is preferred.
• A high level of self-motivation, the ability to coach others, and the agility and influence to effectively maintain the needed level of motivation within the team to achieve, if not exceed, performance expectations.
• Ability to associate cause and affect relationships and determine patterns of activity in anticipation of change within operations, processes, systems, and personnel on a continual and consistent basis.
• Displayed ability to do basic math - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and calculating percentages - with a high degree of accuracy.
• Fluent verbal and written skills in English. Strong communication skills, with ability to efficiently present a situation and effectively advocate for a position to any level of the organization.
• Displayed ability to read and write for understanding, interpret instructions and standard operating procedures, work within software programs (such as but not limited to Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint) and business specific resource planning and reporting systems.
• Ability to be qualified for safe and compliant use and maintenance of assigned and required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). To include a fit-tested respirator, steel-toed shoes, safety eye wear and hearing protection.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong leadership and supervisory skills in a production environment, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards while effectively communicating and achieving operational targets. Proficient in utilizing manufacturing resource planning systems and fostering effective relationships across departments.

Certifications & Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• 2-Year Technical/Associates Degree or Certification