Plastic Extrusion Production Supervisor

#twiceasnice Recruiting; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

#twiceasnice Recruiting is seeking an Extrusion Technical Lead for our client in Mentor, Ohio. The role focuses on hands-on extrusion expertise, materials knowledge, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement, with direct supervision of a small team of operators/technicians.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of plastic extrusion experience, understands compounds, resins, and formulations, and can optimize process parameters while ensuring safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of plastic extrusion manufacturing experience.
• Experience with plastic tubing, cylinder, or similar profile extrusion.
• Strong understanding of compounds, resins, pellets, additives, and formulations.
• Knowledge of extrusion variables including temperature, pressure, speed, cooling, and material flow.
• Prior experience directly supervising, training, or managing production or technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the hands-on technical subject matter expert for plastic extrusion processes.
• Understand and monitor compounds, resins, pellets, additives, and material formulations.
• Troubleshoot production and quality issues involving materials and extrusion processing conditions.
• Monitor production output, scrap, downtime, and product quality; inspect products in process to ensure specifications are met.
• Identify opportunities to improve throughput, quality, efficiency, and material utilization.
• Develop and refine extrusion process parameters, setups, and standard work.
• Ensure safety, quality, operating, and training procedures are followed.
• Directly supervise, train, coach, and evaluate a small team of extrusion operators/technicians.
• Schedule daily activities and coordinate resources for direct reports.
• Communicate technical issues and production performance to management.

Skills

Plastic extrusion

Process troubleshooting

Team supervision

Quality focus

Tools

Job description

Extrusion Technical Lead (Plastic extrusion exp. req.)

Job Type: Full-Time

Typical Hours: Mon -Fri, 7:00 AM- 4:00 PM

Start Date: ASAP

Sponsorship is not available

Extrusion Technical Lead Description

Our client, a well-established manufacturing company in Mentor, Ohio, is seeking an Extrusion Technical Lead to serve as the hands-on technical expert for extrusion operations, materials, and processing. This role is centered on deep technical extrusion expertise, materials knowledge, hands-on troubleshooting, and continuous improvement—rather than broad department leadership. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who understands plastic compounds, resins, pellets, additives, and formulations, as well as how material composition and processing conditions impact production performance and finished-product quality. While the focus of this role is technical, directly supervising and managing a small team of extrusion operators/technicians is a required part of the position. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced extrusion professional to apply deep technical knowledge in a role that also requires hands-on people management, with a company focused on quality, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Extrusion Technical Lead Responsibilities

• Serve as the hands-on technical subject matter expert for plastic extrusion processes
• Understand and monitor compounds, resins, pellets, additives, and material formulations
• Troubleshoot production and quality issues involving materials and extrusion processing conditions
• Monitor production output, scrap, downtime, and product qualityInspect products in process to ensure specifications are met
• Identify opportunities to improve throughput, quality, efficiency, and material utilization
• Develop and refine extrusion process parameters, setups, and standard work
• Ensure safety, quality, operating, and training procedures are followed
• Directly supervise, train, coach, and evaluate a small team of extrusion operators/technicians
• Schedule daily activities and coordinate resources for direct reports
• Communicate technical issues and production performance to management

Extrusion Technical Lead Qualifications

• 3+ years of plastic extrusion manufacturing experience required
• Plastic tubing, cylinder, or similar profile extrusion experience required
• Strong understanding of compounds, resins, pellets, additives, and formulations required
• Knowledge of extrusion variables including temperature, pressure, speed, cooling, and material flow required
• Prior experience directly supervising, training, or managing production or technical staff required