Production Line Supervisor

Safran Group; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Production Line Supervisor responsible for managing repair production teams and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of relevant experience, and strong leadership capabilities. This role is located in Atlanta, Georgia, with a competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience in a related field.
• 3 to 5 years of successful experience in manufacturing.
• Strong management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage repair production teams and operations.
• Ensure safety and quality compliance.
• Monitor performance and develop improvement plans.

Skills

Aviation/Aerospace Component Repair Knowledge

Performance management

Production management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Suite

Job description

Overview

Production Line Supervisor

Job details

General information

Entity

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Aerosystems is one of the world leaders in aviation systems dedicated to aircraft and helicopter safety, as well as fluid and fuel management. The company is a key player in the field of flight safety (oxygen, evacuation, floatation) and participates in the decarbonization of aviation through enabling sustainable alternative fuels and new engine architectures. It has 5,200 employees in 7 countries.

Reference number

2025-153213

Job details

Domain

Production

Job field / Job profile

Manufacture assembly and repair - Workshop manager

Job title

Production Line Supervisor

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Employees / Staff

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

Reporting directly to the site Production Manager, you will be responsible for all activities of one or more repair production lines. You will manage a repair production team coordinated by a Technician/Leader for each line.

Duties and Responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Ensuring that the customer\'s needs are met while respecting safety, quality, costs, and delivery deadlines.
• Ensuring the required transformations and change management.
• Providing a vision and uniting the teams around the entity\'s challenges.
• Organizing your teams in a way that promotes multidisciplinary contributions, autonomy, accountability, and cross-functionality with the aim of being agile and adaptable to operational contingencies and customer needs.
• Ensuring that competencies and resources are maintained at the highest level within the expanded scope.
• Ensuring the accessibility and quality of data in the sector.
• Guaranteeing the use of and compliance with the referential.
• Ensuring compliance of all production, processes and the correct application of all directives (Part 145 regulations, HSE, etc.).

Managerial Focus / Organizing the activity

• Maintaining a working environment that complies with HSE requirements and ensuring the safety of the teams working under your responsibility
• Implementing the guidelines and objectives of the Site Manager for your scope of responsibility into SQCDP (Safety – Quality – Cost – Delivery – People) operational objectives in line with other Production Line Managers.
• Ensuring that products are repaired in terms of quality and quantity to meet customer order requirements within the set deadlines and costs
• Managing and planning the resources of the repair production lines around a workload / capacity tool in terms of repair production resources and staff (quantities and competencies). Anticipating the needs related to the ramp-up of the repair production tool.
• Identifying training needs, defining training initiatives to ensure the development of the team, and contributing to employee career management.
• Managing the skills and training of the teams to guarantee the quality of operations
• Implementing effective communication within the team/repair production lines by ensuring communication routines to maintain a good social climate.
• Promoting the functioning of the teams in line with the leadership model principles.
• Responsible for ensuring that employees comply with all Policies and Procedures

Operational Focus / Managing performance

• Monitoring the performance indicators of the repair production lines in relation to the monthly targets and developing continuous improvement plans (improvement project): 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, etc.

Candidate skills & requirements

a) Knowledge and Skills

• Aviation/Aerospace Component Repair Knowledge including CMM, Quality systems and manuals
• Computer Proficiency (Microsoft Suite)
• Performance management (quality, costs, deadlines)
• Production management/repair management

b) Competencies

• Technical Knowledge
• Risk Management
• Continuous improvement/Lean
• HSE requirements
• Skills Development
• Organizational Skills
• Leadership Capabilities
• Interpersonal Skills
• Change Management
• Process Oriented
• Communications Proficiency
• Time/Priority Management
• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Discretion

c) Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor\'s degree + 5 years / Engineering degree – General or Mechanical
• 3 to 5 years\' successful experience in manufacturing, installation, or repairs would be a considerable asset for this position. Experience in team management would be a plus.
• Strong production/repair management and performance management skills.
• Profile with proven initial experience in a similar field and immediately operational

d) Communication Skills

• Good oral and written communication skills essential for interaction with both internal and external customers

e) Physical Demands

• The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, and kneeling. The employee must sometimes lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Annual salary

commensurate with experience

Job location

Job location

North America, United States, Georgia, Atlanta

City (-ies)

College Park

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Bachelor\'s Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 3 years