Manufacturing Supervisor

Fluor Corporation; Huntington Park (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

TRS Staffing Solutions is seeking a Manufacturing Supervisor in Los Angeles, CA for a 6-month contract-to-hire role. You will grade veneer, lay out and splice to spec, and lead a skilled veneer crew to maximize yield and quality.

Strong bilingual English/Spanish communication is required. The position requires extensive hands-on veneer experience, leadership, and collaboration with sales and purchasing to meet production priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Journalism, Business, Architecture, or a related field.
• Experience reading flitches and grading against architectural specifications.
• Veneer splicing with production experience.
• Yield and material optimization.
• Bilingual English/Spanish required.
• 12+ years veneer manufacturing experience including 3+ years leading a crew.
• Authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Grade raw veneer faces for color, figure, character, and defect, and determine pass/remake decisions.
• Lay out, match, and splice faces to architectural specifications.
• Engineer face layouts to maximize usable yield from costly material.
• Lead, train, schedule, and grow the veneer room crew.
• Review orders, select flitches, allocate material, and anticipate problems on paper.
• Collaborate with sales, purchasing, and panel department on priorities and commitments.
• Own metrics: yield, scrap, throughput, and first-pass quality.

Skills

Veneer grading & evaluation

Veneer splicing

Yield optimization

Leadership & training

Bilingual English/Spanish

12+ years veneer manufacturing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Journalism, Business, Architecture, or related field

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Manufacturing Supervisor

Job

Overview

Location :

United States, Huntington Park, California

• Type Contract
• Job skills Craft/Trade

Job id 169412

Salary $ 50 Per Hour

Manufacturing Supervisor

We are currently seeking a high caliber Manufacturing Supervisor for a long-term basis within our client’s team of experienced professionals. Based in Los Angeles, CA.

Job Requirements

• Grade raw veneer faces for color, figure, character, and defect, and make the calls that determine whether a job succeeds or gets remade.
• Lay out, match, and splice faces to architectural specification - tight joints, correct sequence, proper orientation and balance.
• Engineer face layouts that pull maximum usable yield out of material that is expensive, irreplaceable, and often impossible to source twice
• Lead, train, schedule, and grow the veneer room crew. Build the bench.
• Review incoming orders, select flitches, allocate material, and catch problems on paper before they become problems on the floor.
• Partner daily with sales, purchasing, and the panel department on priorities, availability, and commitments.
• Own the numbers that matter: yield, scrap, throughput, and first-pass quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Journalism, Business, Architecture, or a related field.
• These are firm requirements. This is a specialist's job and we are hiring a specialist.
• Raw wood veneer face grading. Deep hands-on experience reading flitches, evaluating figure and character, identifying defects, and grading against architectural specification.
• Veneer splicing. Real production experience - joint preparation, match sequencing, running and troubleshooting splicing equipment.
• Yield and material optimization. A demonstrated instinct for getting the most out of every bundle. This is the single clearest measure of success in this role.
• Bilingual English/Spanish. Required. You will supervise, train, and deliver safety instruction to a Spanish-speaking production crew while communicating directly with English-speaking management, sales, and customers. Fluency in both is essential to doing this job
• 12+ years of hands-on veneer manufacturing experience, including 3+ years leading or directing a crew.

Preferred

• Hardwood plywood face grading to HPVA / ANSI HP-1 standards.
• Architectural blueprint match takeoffs - reading elevations and shop drawings to determine panel counts and sequencing.
• Pre-engineering of plywood veneer faces for architectural work: sequence-matched sets, blueprint-matched panels, running, balance, and center match.
• Command of domestic species (white oak, walnut, maple, cherry, ash, hickory) and exotics (sapele, anigre, makore, movingui, teak, eucalyptus, figured and burl material).
• Familiarity with AWI/WI architectural woodwork standards.
• Comfort with ERP or production tracking systems.

Notice to Candidates: Background checks are carried out as part of any conditional offer made, including (but not limited to & role dependent) education, professional registration, employment, references, passport verifications and Global Watchlist screening.

To be Considered Candidates

Must be authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship

Employment Type: 6 month contract-to-hire

Location of Position: Los Angeles, CA

Location Type: Manufacturing Floor, Office

TRS Staffing Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce.

Employment decisions are based on job related criteria and not on the basis of any unlawful criteria.

We ensure equal access to employment opportunities, services, and programs.

Must have legal right to work in the United States.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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