Lead Production Supervisor – Semithermal Mass Flow

ITW; Hatfield Township (PA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Company paid life insurance

Disability insurance

401K with company match

Vacation, personal days and holidays

Continuing education reimbursement

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Brooks Instrument, a division of ITW, seeks a Production Supervisor for its Hatfield, PA facility to lead first-shift operations and coordinate with Second shift. You will drive safety, quality, delivery, and continuous improvement using ITW Toolbox and Lean methods.

The role requires Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 3+ years supervising manufacturing teams, preferably across multiple shifts. Strong knowledge of vacuum/pressure products and ERP/MES is desired.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, operations management, business administration, or related field preferred.
• Minimum of three years of supervisory or team-leadership experience in a manufacturing or production environment required.
• Experience supervising employees across multiple shifts or working a split-shift schedule strongly preferred.
• Experience with vacuum, pressure, flow-control, instrumentation, semiconductor, electromechanical, or other complex technical products preferred.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Lean Manufacturing, daily management, 5S, visual management, standard work, or other continuous improvement methods preferred.
• Experience working within an ISO 9001 or similarly regulated quality-system environment preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision, daily direction, coaching, and performance management for assigned first- and second-shift employees supporting Industrial production.
• Maintain a regular work schedule that overlaps first and second shifts sufficiently to provide leadership visibility, employee access, direct observation, communication, and accountability across both shifts.
• Establish and communicate daily production priorities, staffing assignments, schedules, output requirements, and operational expectations based on customer demand and business needs.
• Coordinate effective handoffs between first and second shifts, including status of production, staffing, materials, equipment, quality issues, safety concerns, and open actions.
• Ensure production plans, procedures, quality requirements, and performance expectations are applied consistently across both shifts.
• Create and maintain a healthy and safe work environment; ensure employees understand and follow all safety requirements, personal protective equipment rules, cleanroom or gowning procedures, and incident-reporting expectations.
• Lead daily management and gemba activities; review results against plan, identify gaps, assign corrective actions, remove obstacles, and ensure timely follow-through.
• Monitor, analyze, and communicate key performance indicators, including safety, quality, output, on-time delivery, productivity, labor efficiency, yield, scrap, rework, cycle time, overtime, inventory accuracy, and attendance.
• Organize work, allocate available labor, and adjust priorities throughout the day to address changing demand, staffing constraints, material availability, equipment issues, and production interruptions.
• Maintain thorough working knowledge of assigned Vacuum and Pressure products, manufacturing processes, equipment, work cells, documentation, and operating requirements.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality to troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and sustain approved process or product changes.
• Coordinate with Materials and Supply Chain to address component shortages, inventory discrepancies, work-in-process concerns, and other constraints affecting the production schedule.
• Ensure employees accurately complete required production, inventory, quality, training, timekeeping, and other business-system transactions and documentation.
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• Promote 5S, visual management, standard work, flow, mistake-proofing, waste reduction, and other ITW Toolbox and Lean Manufacturing practices throughout assigned production areas.
• Evaluate production operations, workflows, staffing, and methods to identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and employee effectiveness.
• Ensure assigned employees are appropriately trained and qualified; maintain training plans and records and provide cross-training to build flexibility and coverage across both shifts.
• Provide ongoing feedback, conduct performance discussions and reviews, recognize strong performance, and address attendance, conduct, or performance concerns in partnership with Human Resources.
• Support employee hiring, interviewing, selection, onboarding, training, engagement, development, and retention activities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop employees and emerging leaders; identify development opportunities and support succession planning for critical production roles.
• Communicate company information, policy changes, production updates, and business priorities accurately and consistently to employees on both shifts.
• Ensure established company policies, work rules, procedures, quality standards, and regulatory requirements are communicated, understood, and followed.
• Collaborate with other supervisors and functional partners to coordinate shared resources, resolve cross-functional problems, and support overall site and customer priorities.
• Support customer complaint investigations, corrective actions, audits, and other quality-system activities as assigned.
• Prepare and communicate production, staffing, overtime, attendance, quality, delivery, and operational updates to the Production Operations Manager and other stakeholders.
• Promote a respectful, inclusive, accountable, and team-oriented work environment across both shifts.
• Support company continuous improvement initiatives and perform other duties as assigned. Marginal functions not listed among the essential duties may also be required.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solv ing

Lean Manufacturing

5S

Safety compliance

Split-shift scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, operations management, business administration, or related field

Tools

ERP systems

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Excel

PowerPoint

Timekeeping systems

Job description

Brooks Instrument, a division of ITW, seeks a Production Supervisor for its Hatfield, PA facility to lead first-shift operations and coordinate with Second shift. You will drive safety, quality, delivery, and continuous improvement using ITW Toolbox and Lean methods.

The role requires Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 3+ years supervising manufacturing teams, preferably across multiple shifts. Strong knowledge of vacuum/pressure products and ERP/MES is desired.