Production Supervisor II: Safety, Quality & CI Lead

Cooper Standard; Mount Sterling (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cooper Standard is seeking a Production Supervisor to ensure safety, quality, and continuous improvement goals are met through effective planning and resource management. The role emphasizes training, risk management, and adherence to procedures across shifts.

You will lead team members, coordinate production workloads, and participate in root-cause analyses and corrective actions to sustain operational performance. A four-year or two-year degree with supervision experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to identify and resolve day to day technical and operational problems.
• Analytical skills to gather and interpret production information.
• Computer competency required, spreadsheet, charting, and word documentation.
• Uses tact and diplomacy to exchange information and handle sensitive issues.
• Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create a work environment in which each employee is respected, feels welcome and safe, and is empowered to do their best.
• Responsible for all parts being built to the manufacturing plan and customer specifications.
• Ensure that employees and team leaders are properly trained and empowered to execute the job requirements.
• Communicate work rules and required standards of conduct.
• Assess employee performance, and initiate employee coaching and discipline as necessary.
• Identify, control and communicate risk in operations.
• Ensure employees are trained to safely perform their jobs.
• Act as a role model and ensure employees model safe behaviors.
• Initiate and participate in incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Ensure production reports are accurately maintained.
• Organize and schedule work, including management of breaks, overtime, vacation and absence coverage to achieve production requirements.
• Ensure conformance to quality procedures and proper application of quality and process controls.
• Encourage, support and communicate improvement ideas from operators, and assist with implementation once ideas have been approved.
• Collaborate with Continuous Improvement teams, identifying and proposing possible solutions and supporting their effective implementation.
• Ensure communication between shifts and that team meetings occur.
• Participate in meetings with managers to evaluate performance results and planned actions.
• Participate in critical parts meetings as needed, and daily walkabout.
• May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.
• Participate in or lead safety-related processes such as hazard assessment, work instruction development, incident investigations, LPA, 6S, safety walks, etc.
• Ensure that HSE legal and management system requirements for work areas are met.

Skills

Ability to identify and resolve day to

Analytical skills to gather and

Computer competency

Tact and diplomacy to exchange

Willingness and ability to travel

Education

Four year degree or two year degree in pursuit of a four year degree with two to four years in supervision and / or more than 3 years practical experience in supervision / management.

Job description

Cooper Standard is seeking a Production Supervisor to ensure safety, quality, and continuous improvement goals are met through effective planning and resource management. The role emphasizes training, risk management, and adherence to procedures across shifts.

You will lead team members, coordinate production workloads, and participate in root-cause analyses and corrective actions to sustain operational performance. A four-year or two-year degree with supervision experience is preferred.