Production Supervisor

Stellar; Mason City (IA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar in Mason City, IA, is seeking a Production Supervisor to lead a manufacturing team, optimize resources, and ensure quality and safety standards are met. You will motivate staff, assign tasks, and drive continuous improvement in daily operations.

The role emphasizes coaching, workforce planning, scheduling, and collaboration with maintenance and other departments to achieve production targets while maintaining a positive safety culture.

Qualifications

• Associate/Bachelor's degree or 2+ years of manufacturing experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Strong team player with leadership ability.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Capable of covering absences of the next level manager.

Responsibilities

• Independently supervise staff in daily operations, coach and manage employee issues and concerns.
• Act as the face of the company for direct reports and foster Stellar culture.
• Set tone of the day and maintain a positive work environment on the floor.
• Plan, organize, staff, direct, and assess performance for assigned employees.
• Ensure safety, quality, on-time production; communicate production schedules.
• Lead investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Interpersonal communications

Team leadership

Coaching

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree

2+ years manufacturing experience

Job description

Description Summary: The Production Supervisor leads a designated group of team members in the manufacturing of Stellar products. This role assumes primary responsibility to optimize resources while maximizing production, adhering to quality and safety standards and to motivate and develop the team. The Supervisor is accountable to both management and employees and therefore must gain individual team members’ respect by understanding their needs. The Supervisor will lead assigned production staff to achieve targets, deliver and improve process or product consistency, adhere to quality compliance, obtain cost standards and provide superior customer service. Responsibilities: Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Coaching:

• Independently supervises staff in daily operations, effectively coach, guide and manage employee issues and concerns.
• Acts as the “face of the company” for direct reports and responsible for fostering the Stellar culture.
• Sets tone of the day and is responsible for the attitude on the floor by creating a positive work environment.
• Coaches and counsel’s employees on a timely basis regarding behavior, skills and attitude to form and maintain a high-performance team.
• Creates and maintains a close relationship with workers.
• Resolves day-to-day problems that workers may have with their jobs.
• Uses tact and good judgment when correcting production errors or settling disputes.
• Praise and encourage employees who have done their jobs well.
• Identifies training needs and partners with management to ensure training needs are met.
• Ensure people are working to capacity and within a reasonable workload.
• Educates employees on company policy and enforces policy in a fair and consistent manner.

Leading Assigned Function:

• Responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, performance assessment, making salary recommendations and delivering employee counseling for assigned employees.
• Ensures work performed is safe, accurate, timely and efficient, compliant with corporate policies.
• Determines production schedule, update schedule board and communicate daily production schedule.
• Ensures cost effectiveness, quality standards and safety requirements are attainable in the production process.
• Actively evaluates current and future needs of equipment and employees.
• Ensures adequate material supply for current and next shift.
• Leads and participates in investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensures hours are correct and approved in time system per guidelines.
• Ensures equipment is operational and production efficiently targets are being realized.
• Collaborates with other supervisors ensuring production goals are expeditiously completed and to assure a coordinated work relationship always exists.
• Communicates with maintenance on equipment issues and concerns.
• Maintains open line of communications with other departments and business functions.
• Executes and coordinates departmental training.

Requirements:

• Associate/bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Strong team player
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Capable of covering absences of their next level manager.

Performance Factors:

• Demonstration of skills and knowledge required to perform the responsibilities and duties of the position.
• Demonstrates the ability to reach logical, responsible and timely decisions.
• Demonstrates ability to meet timelines and prioritize work requirements.
• Performs work according to requirements with regards to appearance, quality, completeness, whether self-initiated or supervised.
• Demonstrates the ability to accept change and adapt to a variety of assignments and circumstances.
• Ability to embrace optimism over negativity.
• Looking for the good in other people, circumstances, and events and especially in ourselves.
• Ability to think and act in an appropriate manner without being instructed in great detail.
• Demonstrate willingness to assume and implement responsibilities of the position.
• Conforms to established work schedule. Is available to perform position requirements as necessary.
• Works with co-workers in a collective, collaborative manner to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
• Proactive demonstration of adherence to company policy and guidelines in creating a safe work environment.

Requirements Manufacturing & Operations, Supervisor