Plant Supervisor

Dover Corp; Cypress (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dover Corp is seeking a Production & Distribution Supervisor to lead and develop staff, set schedules, and ensure on-time delivery. You will coordinate with multiple departments to resolve delivery, material, and capacity issues while driving continuous improvement and safety compliance.

The role emphasizes daily leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and maintaining inventory accuracy to meet customer requirements across Production and Distribution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2–5 years of supervisory or leadership experience in manufacturing, production, distribution, warehouse, or similar operations.
• Experience with production planning, scheduling, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Experience working with ERP systems in a manufacturing or distribution environment.

Responsibilities

• Execute daily production and distribution plans to meet customer requirements and drive on-time delivery performance.
• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, past-due orders, material availability, labor, and capacity to establish daily production and shipping priorities.
• Monitor OTD and past-due performance daily, identify delivery risks and key drivers, and execute and follow up on recovery actions.
• Lead daily production meetings to review priorities, delivery performance, past dues, material constraints, capacity, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate with Planning, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, Engineering, and other departments to resolve issues impacting production and customer delivery.
• Oversee Production, Shipping, Receiving, Material Transfer, and Inventory Control activities.
• Ensure production requirements and inbound/outbound shipments are completed accurately and on time.
• Maintain effective material flow and inventory accuracy through proper transactions, cycle counting, reconciliation, and inventory controls.
• Ensure applicable quality, ERP, import/export, U.S. Customs, safety, and company requirements are followed.
• Provide daily leadership and direction to Production and Distribution employees.

Skills

Leadership

Production planning

Cross-functional communication

Problem solving

Time management

Education

Associate or Bachelor's Degree

Tools

ERP systems

Microsoft Office

Shipping systems (UPS/FedEx)

Job description

The Production & Distribution Supervisor is responsible for developing employees, setting work schedules, managing employee relations, ensuring employee performance meets the daily Production, Shipping, Receiving, Material Transfer, and Inventory Control activities/requirements. This position is accountable for coordinating and supporting daily delivery performance, reducing past-due orders, and ensuring customer requirements are met through effective production planning, scheduling, material flow, inventory accuracy, and on-time shipment of quality products.

The Supervisor reviews customer demand, forecast, backlog, past-due orders daily, establishes production and shipping priorities, leads production meetings, and coordinates recovery actions for issues impacting delivery. This position works cross-functionally to address Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, material, capacity, and inventory issues and supports assigned projects and continuous improvement activities.

Job Duties:

Execute daily production and distribution plans to meet customer requirements and drive on-time delivery performance.

• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, past-due orders, material availability, labor, and capacity to establish daily production and shipping priorities.
• Monitor OTD and past-due performance daily, identify delivery risks and key drivers, and execute and follow up on recovery actions.
• Lead daily production meetings to review priorities, delivery performance, past dues, material constraints, capacity, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate with Planning, Purchasing, Customer Service, Quality, Engineering, and other departments to resolve issues impacting production and customer delivery.
• Oversee Production, Shipping, Receiving, Material Transfer, and Inventory Control activities.
• Ensure production requirements and inbound/outbound shipments are completed accurately and on time.
• Maintain effective material flow and inventory accuracy through proper transactions, cycle counting, reconciliation, and inventory controls.
• Ensure applicable quality, ERP, import/export, U.S. Customs, safety, and company requirements are followed.
• Provide daily leadership and direction to Production and Distribution employees.
• Assign labor and priorities based on production requirements, workload, and customer commitments.
• Maintain the training matrix and cross-training plans, ensuring employees are properly trained and developing skills across Production and Distribution to support flexibility and coverage.
• Coach and develop employees while monitoring performance, attendance, productivity, safety, and compliance with company policies.
• Review daily timekeeping and punch exceptions, manage reports to ensure payroll accuracy and timely submission.
• Responsible for drafting and administering goal setting, annual and mid-year performance reviews.
• Monitor operational performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Monitor Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, productivity, inventory accuracy, OTD, and past-due performance and execute corrective actions as directed.
• Support Lean and continuous improvement activities, including 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, standard work, and process improvements.
• Maintain required operational reports, metrics, procedures, and records.
• Lead operational meetings, projects, and cross-functional activities as required.
• Manage assigned projects, including actions, responsibilities, timelines, implementations, and follow-up through completion.
• Communicate operational risks, delivery concerns, priorities, and recovery plans to management and affected departments.
• Support new equipment, systems, process improvements, audits, and other operational requirements as needed.
• Performs back-up duties for all production and logistic positions.
• Performs back-up duties on the Operations Manager Leader Standard Work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 2-5 years of supervisory or leadership experience in manufacturing, production, distribution, warehouse, or similar operations.
• Experience with production planning, scheduling, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Experience working with ERP systems in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Experience managing daily operational priorities and working cross-functionally to resolve delivery, material, capacity, or inventory issues.

Skills Required:

• Ability to lead and develop employees while promoting accountability, teamwork, and cross-functional communication.
• Understanding of production planning, scheduling, material flow, inventory control, shipping, and receiving.
• Review forecast, customer demand, backlog, OTD, past-due performance, and capacity to identify risks and drive action plans.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, identify issues, and follow actions through completion.
• Experience with 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, process flow, and other continuous improvement activities.
• Experience with ERP systems, Microsoft Office, UPS, FedEx, and other applicable shipping systems.
• Ability to work independently, adapt to changing business requirements, and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.

Education Requirements:

• Associate or bachelor's Degree, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.