Manufacturing Supervisor

Eaton; Minden (LA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Fibrebond by Eaton is seeking an on-site Manufacturing Supervisor in Minden, LA to lead production and drive safety, quality, and efficiency. The role emphasizes Lean practices and cross-functional collaboration to meet customer demands.

The successful candidate will have leadership experience in manufacturing, strong communication skills, and the ability to align teams with Eaton’s values and continuous improvement initiatives. Competitive salary and incentives available.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent required.
• Minimum two years of experience in production or manufacturing.
• Minimum one year of leadership experience.
• Must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• No relocation benefit; candidates within 50 miles will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Proactively maintains a safe working environment and enforces accident prevention policies.
• Coordinates resources with maintenance, materials, scheduling, staffing, logistics, quality, and engineering to resolve issues and improve efficiency.
• Drives the site vision by upholding ethics, values, and quality policies and aligning the workforce accordingly.
• Leads continuous improvement using Eaton Business System tools (ELS, 5S) and cross-functional collaboration.
• Promotes a quality culture by incorporating customer feedback into problem-solving and process improvements.
• Maintains accurate inventory and production metrics to reduce WIP and improve product flow.
• Sets department goals, develops performance metrics, and participates in CI teams across the plant.
• Coaches and develops staff with regular feedback and performance evaluations.

Skills

Leadership experience

Production/manufacturing experience

Communication skills

Safety awareness

Education

High school diploma or GED

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Kronos

Oracle

Outlook

Job description

Eaton’s Electrical Sector - ARS division is currently seeking a Manufacturing Supervisor based onsite at our Fibrebond manufacturing campus in Minden, Louisiana.

Fibrebond by Eaton is building the infrastructure that powers some of North America's most critical data center, utility, industrial, and communications operations.The Manufacturing Supervisor leads, facilitates, and coordinates production activities and resources per established practices and/or policies within their job area to ensure the timely delivery of quality parts that meet or exceed customer expectations. They establish and maintain a positive employee relations environment by adherence to Fibrebond by Eaton’s Values, Ethics and Philosophies, as well as clearly communicate expectations and consistently holds self and employees accountable for performance.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications.

Fibrebond by Eaton designs and manufactures pre integrated modular buildings and power enclosures that protect mission critical equipment for data center, industrial, utility, and communications customers. Headquartered in Minden, Louisiana, Fibrebond is known for its engineered to order solutions that support complex infrastructure projects across North America. In 2025, Fibrebond was acquired by Eaton, expanding Eaton’s modular solutions portfolio while preserving Fibrebond’s strong engineering expertise, customer focus, and manufacturing operations in Louisiana.

What You’ll Do

• Proactively implements, promotes, and maintains a safe working environment, through diligence in accident prevention, investigation, equipment maintenance and rule enforcement.
• Coordinates, leverages, and appropriately utilizes resources with other managers, such as maintenance, materials, scheduling, staffing, logistics, quality, and engineering, to resolve production and manufacturing problems, improve processes, maximize efficient utilization of resources, and meet external and internal customer demands
• Drives the company’s vision and mission by reinforcing ethics, values, and quality policies throughout their area of responsibility. Aligns workforce to the company vision.
• Acts as a business partner by planning, initiating, leading, measuring, monitoring, and assessing continuous improvement programs and manufacturing process improvements by applying appropriate Eaton Business System (EBS) processes and problem-solving tools such as ELS (Eaton Lean System) and 5S
• Promotes a quality culture by demonstrating customer focus and regularly communicating customer feedback to employees to facilitate and participate in collaborative problem solving, drive continuous quality improvement and ensure alignment/compliance with industry standards.
• Maintains and reports accurate inventory and production numbers while continually seeking ways to reduce work in progress (WIP) inventory levels and maximizing product flow, while identifying and implementing cost out opportunities.
• Actively participates in setting, communicating, and achieving department goals and objectives and develops and maintains performance metrics as required to monitor results and uses those results as a tool to identify and initiate process improvements within own work area. Coordinates and/or participates in continuous improvement teams in own or other areas to enhance plant results.
• Fully engages workforce and promotes personal accountability by identifying goals, empowering employees to drive decision making, foster innovation, and continuously learn, by providing ongoing feedback on employee performance with formal evaluation provided at least annually.
• Motivates and coaches’ employees to maintain high levels of satisfaction, productivity, and quality through effectively utilizing available rewards and recognition channels to encourage and promote desired behaviors and results.
• Effectively confronts employee performance and behavioral issues. Holds employees accountable with immediate feedback when desired behaviors and expectations are not being achieved.
• Promotes employee development and potential through effective performance management and coaching and ensures that appropriate and required training is completed for direct reports so that they have the necessary skills, knowledge information and tools to do their jobs safely and effectively.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED from an accredited institution
• Minimum two (2) years of work experience in a production, military, manufacturing, distribution or related environment
• Minimum one (1) year of leadership experience
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of facility will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• Supervisory experience in a manufacturing team environment
• Working knowledge of production processes, lean manufacturing and quality control techniques, 5S, Six Sigma, and Quality Systems (e.g. QS 9000, ISO 14001, TS 16949)
  
  
  

Skills

Position Success Criteria:

• Strong Leadership and execution skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Positions requires managerial skills, ability to train, motivate, coach and enforce rules.
• Technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, quality methods, production/materials planning and problem-solving methods
• Administrative skills to include planning, staffing, organization, time and priorities management. Broad knowledge of manufacturing, production control, computer systems applications, including Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Kronos, Oracle, & Outlook, among other
• Ensures that all direct reports are trained in the applicable environmental, health and safety practices for their respective positions. Identifies and corrects unsafe conditions or practices to assure a safe work environment for all employees.
• Participates on the Material Review Board, Staffing, MFR, PCR, SIOP and other work-related meetings.
  
  
  

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