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GPC is seeking a Production Supervisor to oversee value-added fabrication and coordinate daily production activities for a team of 2–5 employees. The role focuses on achieving schedules and quality targets while promoting a safe, organized work environment.
The position requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and the ability to manage schedules, staffing, and lean improvement initiatives to support customer satisfaction and operational goals.
The Production Supervisor specializes in value-added fabrication of products, and coordinates and controls production activities to achieve schedules and quality targets. This role directs and schedules daily activities of five or more production employees.
Maintains a safe, organized, respectful, productive work environment that promotes teamwork. Ensures production and customer satisfaction are achieved by the team. Utilizes the ERP, warehouse management, and scheduling systems proficiently. Communicates and executes production schedules. Actively engages in management performance and developing reports by regularly communicating standards and expectations and holding the team accountable. Discuss business unit needs and improves projects with operations management and technical services. Creates and improves department processes by utilizing lean manufacturing tools and methods. Actively develops and motivates employees to create an invested and sustainable workforce. Ensures adherence to appropriate certification program(s). May respond to emergencies as a trainer First Responder. Performs other duties as assigned.
Typically requires a high school diploma or GED and five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience.
Strong leadership, decision making, and problem-solving skills. Strong interpersonal skills including speaking and listening for understanding. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Ability to motivate and develop others as well as handle conflict while maintaining self-control.
Exposure to heat, moderate noise, moving pieces of equipment, and dust/flying particles. Requires frequent talking, hearing, and presenting. Manual dexterity: Work requires regular speed, accuracy, and adeptness to operate a limited range of equipment. Work requires handling light-weight materials or equipment requiring limited effort.
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Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition, reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay. GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons. Since 1928, GPC has set the standards for performance and value for our customers and our stakeholders. Today, we’re proud to say we’re the largest global auto parts network and a leading industrial parts distributor, one that offers rewarding careers that combine small company feel with a global scale. Our strengths are in the relationships we build and the value we deliver by merging local expertise with a global force.