Night Shift Production Leader: Drive Quality & Efficiency

Confidential Careers; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers is seeking a Production Supervisor to oversee production employees in a manufacturing environment. You will plan and assign work, enforce policies, and drive continuous improvements in methods, equipment, and procedures to maintain efficient operations.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, staff development, and safe, cost-conscious production performance, with regular reporting to management and strong focus on employee relations and coaching.

Responsibilities

• Balances quality, productivity, cost, safety, and morale to achieve results in all areas.
• Works to continuously improve in all areas.
• Provides regular progress reports to the manager.
• Ensures effective employee relations.
• Provides employee coaching and development.
• Resolves employee issues through problem resolution.
• Tracks absenteeism and timekeeping.
• Accomplish manufacturing staff results by planning, monitoring, communicating job expectations, and appraising job results; counseling, disciplining, and coaching employees; coordinating, initiating, and enforcing systems, procedures, and policies.
• Maintain staff by recruiting, orienting, selecting, and training employees; and developing personal growth opportunities for them
• Maintain workflow by setting process variables, monitoring steps of the process; observing equipment and control points; monitoring resources and personnel; developing reporting systems and procedures, studying methods; facilitating corrections to malfunctions, implementing cost reductions; initiating and developing a spirit of cooperation between and within departments
• Ensure the operation of equipment by evaluating new equipment and calling for repairs of old equipment
• Provide manufacturing information by sorting, initiating, compiling, and analyzing production performance data and records
• Educate and direct employees on the use of equipment, all control points, and resource
• Handle additional duties as assigned by Plant General Manager
• Leads all safety initiatives in the area

Job description

Confidential Careers is seeking a Production Supervisor to oversee production employees in a manufacturing environment. You will plan and assign work, enforce policies, and drive continuous improvements in methods, equipment, and procedures to maintain efficient operations.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, staff development, and safe, cost-conscious production performance, with regular reporting to management and strong focus on employee relations and coaching.