Manufacturing Supervisor - Packaging (Night Shift)

Unilever; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 71,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Long-Term Incentive (LTI) eligible

Health insurance

Job summary

Unilever in Jefferson City, MO, seeks a 12-hour Night Shift Manufacturing Supervisor to lead teams across the factory. You will champion safety culture, ensure quality, and drive productivity through operating systems while meeting short- and long-term targets.

You will develop teams, manage resources during outages, and guide improvements with a focus on reliability and waste reduction. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 1–3 years’ leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Excellent communication skills and passion for continuous improvement.
• Ability to clearly articulate and analyze complex operational details.
• Strong leadership with clear, consistent, accountable feedback.

Responsibilities

• Drive Unilever safety systems and culture on the factory floor with compliance to rules and programs.
• Ensure quality standards through training and floor education, addressing quality concerns.
• Guide root cause analysis for quality and safety incidents and implement countermeasures.
• Lead productivity via factory operating systems across areas, prioritizing resources.
• Set and deliver targets for reliability, PM/AM compliance and waste reduction.
• Guide teams during equipment breakdowns, document issues, allocate resources.
• Plan medium- and long-term business targets and track performance indicators.
• Develop teams through engagement, hiring, training and communication.
• Provide timely feedback on performance and attendance; drive development plans.
• Foster positive employee relations and lead focused improvement projects.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Continuous improvement

Operational analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 1–3 years leadership experience

Job description

Job Purpose

As a 12hr Night Shift Manufacturing Supervisor you will be leading teams in the biggest UNILEVER Personal care factory in North America. You will lead teams across the factory. You will develop teams and deliver through teams. You will champion Factory Operating system practices across all areas of the factory. You will uphold safety as a value in the factory and will ensure compliance to quality is always a priority. You will lead teams to deliver productivity and other business targets through the execution of manufacturing processes.

JOB TITLE

Manufacturing Supervisor

LOCATION

Jefferson City, MO

HOURS

6pm - 6:15am, 2/2/3 schedule

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the Unilever safety systems/culture on the factory floor ensuring compliance to all regulatory, plant safety rules and other programs such as LOTO and risk assessments.
• Drive compliance to quality standards through training, educating teams on the floor as per the existing standards. Ensuring all risks are evaluated and proper support is available to navigate quality concerns.
• Provide guidance in root cause analysis for quality and safety incidents and establishes countermeasures to mitigate recurrence.
• Drive productivity through execution of factory operating systems in all areas, ensuring resources are directed as per the business priorities/urgency
• Sets and delivers the business targets such as Operational reliability, PM & AM compliance, and operational waste.
• Guide the teams during equipment breakdown, documenting breakdown details, and assigning relevant resources for resolution.
• Sets and delivers plan to deliver the medium term and long-term business targets.
• Tracks performance indicators such as operational efficiency, changeover losses along with cost, escalates and directs resources as per the priorities.
• Builds capabilities in teams through engagement and ensuring hiring, training and communication is always in place.
• Shares consistent and on time feedback to the teams, ensures the performance, attendance standards are always met.
• Shares and builds development plans for employees when performance gaps are identified through regular performance reviews
• Fosters a culture of positive employee relations, builds capability, recognizes gaps, and acts to help resolve those gaps
• Leads the execution of WCM principles, guidelines on the floor and participates/leads in focused improvement projects.

WHAT MAKES YOU A FIT?

• You’re a leader: Ability to develop teams in dynamic, fast, and complex work environment.
• You’re a Culture change champion: Able to adapt quickly and constantly works with multiple teams to deliver best outcome
• You win through teams : People, Process, performance is how you deliver targets
• You’re a Paradox Navigator: manages multiple workstreams, able to prioritize in the right areas to deliver the needs of the business

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or 1-3 years’ leadership experience in manufacturing environment.
• Excellent communication skills and passion for continuous improvement.
• Ability to clearly articulate and analyze complex operational details.
• Strong leadership skill, ability to share clear, consistent, accountable, and actionable feedback.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $71,400 to $107,200. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

• Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

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